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  • ThQp
    I Used To Work Here
    • Feb 2007
    • 1095

    #1

    IGN Reviews Quantum of Solace

    The team over at IGN has posted their review for the newest James Bond title Quantum of Solace. Take a look:
    There's no single genre on Wii that has more of a hit and miss factor than first-person shooters. Ubisoft kicked things off with Red Steel during Wii's launch, while the sleeper hit (and unexpected) Call of Duty 3 stole the show for the system's first round. Fast forward another year, and we've seen the bar raise substantially, with titles like Medal of Honor Heroes 2 topping the charts, and developer High Voltage Software teasing The Conduit for an early 2009 release. The Wii certainly has its highs, but as anyone unfortunate enough to end up with Quantum of Solace Wii during this holiday season will undoubtedly be able to vouch, the system also has its unmistakable lows.

    First of all, let's put this in perspective. Developer Treyarch (also responsible for the entertaining Call of Duty 3 on Wii) has just now finished up Call of Duty: World at War for all major consoles, including a few Wii-specific efforts, as well as Quantum of Solace for not only 360/PS3, and thus the development duties of Quantum of Solace Wii - made hand-in hand with Treyarch's own design - has been passed off to Beenox Studios. Despite having a separate team on Bond for Wii, it's obvious that the Wii version played second fiddle to the 360/PS3 efforts from the get-go, as the final product is a mash-up of half-working other system content, and a few original ideas for Nintendo's system. The game has the right design set in place, mimicking the 360/PS3 SKUs as much as it can, but is a wreck outside of the core design, and we're talking everything from visuals to draw distance, control, bugs, AI problems, and most importantly, abysmal framerate issues. Like Ubisoft's latest Brothers in Arms effort on Wii, Bond barely runs at times, and in fact has worse performance issues than Double Time does during key instances. We never thought we'd say that.

    The full review can be found here. Quantum of Solace is available on the PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and Nintendo DS.
  • Obsidian Spire
    Member
    • Oct 2008
    • 705

    #2
    Re: IGN Reviews Quantum of Solace

    why are you guys freely advertising for your competitors? THIS IS MADNESS! :soapbox: THIS IS TGNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!! LOL 300.

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    • ThQp
      I Used To Work Here
      • Feb 2007
      • 1095

      #3
      Re: IGN Reviews Quantum of Solace

      wtf are you going on about? If we find a story we need to give credit to the source. Don't be ridiculous.

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      • Obsidian Spire
        Member
        • Oct 2008
        • 705

        #4
        Re: IGN Reviews Quantum of Solace

        What I meant was why are you posting reviews from other sites on your site? It confuzzles me. I understand the whole source accreditation deal ThQp. Plagiarism is bad, DOIHHHHHH. If you post another website's review, does it mean you guys are not going to review the game as well? If I wanted to go to IGN, I would go there, but if I go to TGN, I would want to see original work (podcasts/reviews/previews/mods/etc.) or gaming news (again you can have sources for this, so technically not original, but still interesting and better than other websites reviews). I dislike IGN and most other gaming sites, but this is solely an opinion. This is why I traverse TGN now. Definitely not for the hot chicks and funny videos, nope definitely not.

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        • Spawndemon
          Member
          • Oct 2005
          • 6015

          #5
          Re: IGN Reviews Quantum of Solace

          Simply put, IGN is a press site, we are a community site. Our goal is to one day become a press site (with our same community appeal) and be able to review every single game that comes out, but as it is now, we are only able to get so many games to review. Since we can't review all the games ourselves, we still want the community to know how games are rated so we post articles and reviews from other sites. You will be seeing more reviews from us, don't worry.

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