Official PlayStation Magazine #24 Scores

PostOfficial PlayStation Magazine #24 Scores by KK » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:43 pm

Cover: Little Big Planet

Reviews

PS3

Little Big Planet: 10/10 (with free downloadable Kratos Sackboy)
WipEout HD: 9/10
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: 7/10
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009: 9/10
TNA iMPACT!: 7/10
Fracture: 6/10
Pure: 7/10
[rains down in…]Afrika: 7/10
Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway: 7/10
NHL 2K9: 8/10
Driver (PSone): 7/10
Track & Field (PSone): 7/10

PS2

Yakuza 2: 8/10

PSP

R-Type Tactics: 6/10

Features

Operation Flashpoint 2
inFamous
OPM Interview: Shinji Mikami

The Top Ten

Resi 5 is not Racist
Sony's Hardware Innovations
Sony's PS3 Pets
Shellshock 2
PlayTV
PS3 Vs MTV
Singstar's community service
Dead Space banned in several countries
Far Cry 2's design destruction
YES/NO Wiil you be collecting PS3 Trophies?

Next Month

Resistance 2 reviewed

KKLEIN wrote:Wiil you be collecting PS3 Trophies?

Epic slip there. :lol:

Sorry, fella.

When's this due out in shops, btw?

30th September (Tuesday).

The magazine has probably one of the best covers in history. It's brilliant.

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KKLEIN wrote:30th September (Tuesday).

The magazine has probably one of the best covers in history. It's brilliant.

What is it?

Nevermind:

CVG wrote:LBP "In a league of its own," says OPSM
Friday 26-Sep-2008 12:33 PM Official PlayStation Magazine awards LittleBigPlanet top marks

The first LittleBigPlanet review is in and the Official PlayStation Magazine has given Media Molecule's masterpiece full marks.

The review talks, and praises to no-end, the creativity that's possible in the game. Something we're loving ourselves in the beta at the moment.

"The limitless creative potential contained within LittleBigPlanet means you'll be scribbling level designs on the back of your hand so you don't forget them. Or breaking off, mid-conversation, to stare blankly into space as the penny drops on how to make a rampaging robot. A big one.

"Materials have physical properties and react believably to gravity and other objects. Felt is soft, polystyrene is light, rubber grips (making it great for wheels) and glass is slippery."

The review continues: "The golden moment is when you realise how you can link these simple parts together to create something amazing. It's as if a mist clears to reveal infinite possibility."

The review also clears up two of the biggest concerns about MM's game. First, it's not hard to make good stuff. "Don't be scared if you think it sounds like hard work. LBP's masterstroke is to make this creative world accessible to anyone, at any level."

And secondly, you need not make anything to get your money's worth. "This story mode alone is reason enough to buy LBP ... The quality is flawless. The beautiful levels mix action, challenge and wonder in a way that makes plenty of 'real' cough nervously and look sheepishly at their feet."

Slapping the game with a 10/10, the review thus summarises: "It's in a league of its own and an experience that anyone with a PS3 would have to have a sack for brains to miss out on."

We love it too, and will have LOADS of videos for you the moment Sony takes off the embargo shackles (on October 14).

Meanwhile the full OPSM-UK review can be read in issue 24 of the mag, in subscribers' hands now.

What is the gist of the PES review KK?

PES gets good score! \o/

It also has a really nice finish.

The demo disc is a load of arse, with the same demos as last month.

I'll sum up the last section of the PES review:

What's stopping us giving PES 10/10? And - of course - is it better than Fifa 09? The first is an easy one to answer. There are just too many minor quibbles - like the fact that Master League has barely changed in half a decade (this year's only addition: an affection rating for each player which denotes how happy they are at their current club), & the still inconsistent, defensive AI. The second question is tougher. Fifa 09 feels like the better representation of football, while PES is the more fun, accessible game. For the first time in over a decade - since the Fifa/Sensible Soccer Mega Drive era, in fact - the fans have two outstanding and, crucially, very different, football titles to choose from.

They also think that the menu screens absolutely suck. Apart from that, they seem to think it plays really, really well. "Pro Evo is right back on form this year".

I bet we get a lot of revisionist reviews this year - people saying PES is back on form, when they rated it similarly (and much higher than FIFA) last year.

I'm concerned that OPM aren't mentioning people's concerns with the platforming and controls in LBP at all.

Hero of Canton wrote:I bet we get a lot of revisionist reviews this year - people saying PES is back on form, when they rated it similarly (and much higher than FIFA) last year.

I bet we get even more people on here going for the revisionist view of past PES games, how it used to be so much better on PS2.

Just because the game hasn't really changed, doesn't mean its gotten worse. People have just got bored of it is all.

This is also the reason Fifa is getting really great reviews, it isn't actually a great game, but its so much better than it used to be that it looks like a great game in comparison.

These two facts together explain peoples views on here about the two games. Hopefully more and more people will come to play the actually new version of PES that is the Wii edition and realise how great these games could be again.

Eighthours wrote:I'm concerned that OPM aren't mentioning people's concerns with the platforming and controls in LBP at all.

Concerned that an official magazine isn't mentioning a (fairly slight) problem with a game's controls? Eighthours, where's your cynicism?!

This is me breathing wrote:This is also the reason Fifa is getting really great reviews, it isn't actually a great game, but its so much better than it used to be that it looks like a great game in comparison.

*Sigh*

I give up.

Little Big Planet: 10/10 (with free downloadable Kratos Sackboy)

Yey

Do they mention anything about Pro Evo online? I know it is not probably been turned on yet, but maybe they put that it uses the Konami Game ID system used in Metal Gear?

So where is the code? I have looked and seen nothing.

Hero of Canton wrote:
This is me breathing wrote:This is also the reason Fifa is getting really great reviews, it isn't actually a great game, but its so much better than it used to be that it looks like a great game in comparison.

This.

suzzopher wrote:So where is the code? I have looked and seen nothing.

It's on a separate piece of paper.

KKLEIN wrote:
suzzopher wrote:So where is the code? I have looked and seen nothing.

It's on a separate piece of paper.

Oh really? A piece of paper that doesn't appear to be in mine

I nearly binned it as it was stuck in with the scratch card.

KKLEIN wrote:I nearly binned it as it was stuck in with the scratch card.

Well seems I didn't get one then

I shall call customer services on Monday.

Official PlayStation Magazine #24 Scores

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