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I still think you have been unfair on the game itself, when really it is the fault of the users who do not have headsets - and the fact that headsets don't get bundled with the PS3.
I wouldn't like to be a developer having to read that review, to be honest. Oh dear, double postage... :? Looks like a really Fun Game! Im still suprised that the PS3 doesnt come with a headset as standard, with online and MP becoming so important in todays Games, it just seems like a no brainer to include one.
The Game does look like a blast though, will try it out on a friends PS3 this weekend. The review makes it sound like good fun (as do the videos I've seen) so I was thinking of picking it up. But of course I have no headset either, so I'm as guilty of non-communication as anyone else. That said, KZ2 seems to have a lot of people with them.
But I bet the reason no headset is bundled is down to the manufacturing costs of the console itself. Any way to save a couple of bucks would be done, and the headset removal is one. Maybe they'll start doing it now.
People need to be more like me though. I push my luck when making big purchases. I got a free second controller and traded out one of the bundled games with my PS3 for something cheaper that I actually wanted. I bet I could've got a headset too. It is a fun game but the connection issues need fixed and people need to communicate more. It should improve over time as people get used to it, and find the push to talk button - R2 I've never really had a problem with people communicating on this. Connecting into a game can be frustrating and the game is so different to most of the other games out there it takes a few plays to get into it and find out what you're all suppose to be doing. Once it all clicks it's bloody brilliant fun. When the main focus of the game online multiplayer I think including information about the available community is fair. But is the community at fault, or the game developer?
I'd score community 5/10 if they can't be bothered to talk to each other.
I think 7/10 is fair though, because of the lag. Much hyped and long awaited PS3 title in average game shocker... Sarcasm off! 360 fanboy comment on PS3 related thread shocker!
:shock: Almost bought this without waiting for a demo.
Pleased i didn't after all the problems is seems to be suffering and some average reviews.
Flower and super stardust hd still the best psn games for me. You should try Shatter. At less than a fiver, it's a bargain. Brilliant game. Last downloable game i bought, great fun.
Good music as well. Can't be!
That NEVVVER happens! :shock: I don't normally criticise reviews, but that was more than a little daft. You're reviewing the game, not the circumstances under which you played it.
If you had been playing with friends who had headsets (as myself and many others will), what then? You would have reviewed it differently?
Completely bizzare article. You're spot on mate.
What if everyone had had a headset but the reviewers headset wasn't working? would he have given it a bad score cos his headset was broke? Bizarre criticism.
I have never seen a game marked down before because not enough people have headsets.
I've never played it so I can't disagree with him, but to mark a game down because there weren't enough people with headsets when he was playing is not a criticism of the game, its a criticism of the players and the console. idiotic criticisms.like giving street fighter a lower score cos you don't have an arcade stick. I think it's a perfectly reasonable criticism.
If they haven't included a command system in a game which requires a lot of teamplay then it should get some marks knocked off. Exactly my thoughts. Like marking down Gran Turismo because Sony didn't issue steering wheels. Ha. It's not the same at all. The point is that when you are playing a game online in silence, you may as well be playing against bots. It's pointless.
Downsides are the racist American teens - but block them out and games are massively enhanced and make them worth playing.
The two examples you two have given are your own choice - if you want to use a certain control system then buy it, however, if you want to have a fully communicating online game, you can't buy everyone on your team a headset to ensure they play can you?
The headset issue is something that you have no control over, the steering wheel/arcade stick issue is completely your choice.
Get it? I take it you haven't played the game? If you had you would know there's quite a lot of people on it with headsets. Does that mean the score should be changed? There's a few other issues with the game that I'd rate as more critical than the headset issue. Sadly this review skirts them all. use of a headset is my choice as well.plus um how are you supposed to bundle a headset with a downloadable game? marks down for lag/poor graphics/choppy framerate totally understandable.marks down for not having a headset? ridiculous completely foolish. Yet oh so very predictable. | 
