{"id":14104,"date":"2011-09-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"cliff-bleszinski-upset-by-8-10-gears-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14104-cliff-bleszinski-upset-by-8-10-gears-scores","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Bleszinski upset by 8\/10 Gears scores"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s an interesting scenario we’ve come to when a review score of 8\/10 has a developer up in arms. Certainly, throughout my life I’ve never been sad to see an 8\/10 stamped on anything I’ve produced. This could be a result of the continued inflation of review scores, something I certainly have discussed before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the way things are now, however, and Gears of War 3 creator Cliff Bleszinski is upset by some “low” scores from the likes of Eurogamer, Destructoid and The Escapist – “low” being 8\/10, because everyone knows if your game doesn’t hit the 90s, it may not be worth buying.<\/p>\n

“You know, I didn’t quite gather it. I don’t want to come across as defensive.  How do I phrase this properly? When people rated Gears 2 higher than Gears 3, it kind of upset me because I know Gears 3 is a better game on every level,” said Cliff.<\/p>\n

The few criticisms directed at the game revilve around a lack of originality, with Eurogamer noting that the campaign’s pacing was “dulled at too early a stage.”<\/p>\n

Cliff stands by the title though, insisting that the longer development time has made it a far superior game to the original two.<\/p>\n

“We’ve embraced Gears 1’s strengths, learned from Gears 2’s weaknesses, and hit a sweet spot between the two. Honestly, I think that’s the gist of it all.”<\/p>\n

Customers will get their chance to judge for themselves come September 20th, but given the blockbuster name and a Metacritic score currently sitting at 91, we can be certain sales won’t exactly be modest.<\/p>\n

One has to wonder if Cliff isn’t being a little petty complaining about a handful of 8\/10s, with an average score still sitting in the 90s.<\/p>\n

Source: Industrygamers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A metacritic in the 90s should cheer him up though<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}