Saturday, January 21, 2012

Games Review: First Person Shooters (FPS) Falling Short

As one reads this games review article, the trend in First Person Shooters or FPS continues. The trend being spoken of is video game makers releasing games before they're really completed for the reason of budget and marketing deadlines. The majority of the time, such restrictions is not the doing of the game developers.

Gamers sit by, as video game after video game is released without proper completion. Developers strive to make their cut-off dates and aspects such as quality control plummet to the kerb because of this. Video game makers spend their full budgets in marketing. Folks would watch trailers that seem as great as a blockbuster movie and begin to salivate. The video games get their target sales instantaneously. Game fanatics run to video game shops to pre-order copies as soon as possible.

Release date finally arrives. One strips the plastic off in great anticipation. He inserts the disk, cartridge or whatever into his gaming console or PC. He plays the shortest campaign he has in a while... he is ok with that. He does not buy video games for the SP any longer. Now it is the moment to reveal what the game has! He clicks on the online mode, enters a lobby and realizes that he is the only one present. This could not be right... was not the game just released?! So he keeps on trying the other lobbies. His hopes are high once again. He starts to play his new video game online... sort of. He begins to rubber band (to and fro motions brought about by lag) completely over the monitor and then he gets booted.

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