16th April 2003, 10:31 PM
Hey, I never said I agreed with them all the time, just that even when I do disagree at least their reviews are solid and don't usually mark games down for no apparent reason... sometimes personal opinion does seem to count too hard, and some of those are good examples... I could add a few too...
Rush 1 a 7.1? Not a bad score for that game... its a solid arcade racer. But each Rush game after that should be a big jump over it. But Rush 2 got a 5.1... at least 2049 got a 7.5, but still, I'd give it 9.2 at a minimum... I guess they just dislike racing games on N64... which seems clear when you look at the consistent bad scores for the great N64 racing games -- Mario Kart 64, DKR, and Rush 2049 all got scores under 7 but were easily well over a 9 (especially Rush 2049... I LOVE that game! It's easily the N64 game I play the most these days...) in my opinion... same with F-Zero X and its 7.5... that one should have been near 10. I guess they hate arcade racing games.
So yes, I'd give Rush 2049 a mid 9 and Rush 2 probably a high 8 or low 9 and DKR a high 8, probably, and Mario Kart just below that (docked for its bad single player mode), and they score them lower. It is strange that its so consistent... Cruis'n USA too (well not a 9, but they don't deserve 4's and 5's!, but every review of that trilogy of racing games I read was bad so that's just my opinion it seems... As for Hydro Thunder, that got a fairly low review too and was also a very good racer.
Given those scores, how did Excitebike 64 get a 8.8? It is kind of odd...
And Ridge Racer 64 gets a 8.4 and is called "one of the best racing games on the N64"??? I guess that they just have bizarre taste in racing games... I rented that one once and was glad I did because it certainly wouldn't have been worth my money...
Oh well... they do most genres well...
And most of this is just taste. They clearly don't really like kart racing or futuristic/arcade racing that much... and I love those types of racers, with futuristic/arcade racing games being one of my favorite genres of console games...
Rush 1 a 7.1? Not a bad score for that game... its a solid arcade racer. But each Rush game after that should be a big jump over it. But Rush 2 got a 5.1... at least 2049 got a 7.5, but still, I'd give it 9.2 at a minimum... I guess they just dislike racing games on N64... which seems clear when you look at the consistent bad scores for the great N64 racing games -- Mario Kart 64, DKR, and Rush 2049 all got scores under 7 but were easily well over a 9 (especially Rush 2049... I LOVE that game! It's easily the N64 game I play the most these days...) in my opinion... same with F-Zero X and its 7.5... that one should have been near 10. I guess they hate arcade racing games.
So yes, I'd give Rush 2049 a mid 9 and Rush 2 probably a high 8 or low 9 and DKR a high 8, probably, and Mario Kart just below that (docked for its bad single player mode), and they score them lower. It is strange that its so consistent... Cruis'n USA too (well not a 9, but they don't deserve 4's and 5's!, but every review of that trilogy of racing games I read was bad so that's just my opinion it seems... As for Hydro Thunder, that got a fairly low review too and was also a very good racer.
Given those scores, how did Excitebike 64 get a 8.8? It is kind of odd...
And Ridge Racer 64 gets a 8.4 and is called "one of the best racing games on the N64"??? I guess that they just have bizarre taste in racing games... I rented that one once and was glad I did because it certainly wouldn't have been worth my money...
Oh well... they do most genres well...
And most of this is just taste. They clearly don't really like kart racing or futuristic/arcade racing that much... and I love those types of racers, with futuristic/arcade racing games being one of my favorite genres of console games...
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