Gaming Rez HD

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/02/02/rez_hd/1

Colours are flying across the screen. Music is thumping and we're taking it in turns to have a go on the most surreal game we've ever had, an extra controller clutched between our legs. Rez HD is unrivaled in presentation, but is it fun to play?

 

huh looks and sounds interesting and umm ya my mind went south when you started talking about a small thing that vibrates lol, oddly enough I thought about my ex but umm ya thats another story for a much different forum lol.

 

It is a great game, so much so that I even went back on my previous opinions of it and bought it for the outrageously high 800 points (really, stuff should be 600), but every review site seems too liberal with the 10's for it, an 8 or a 9 would have been about right really as it is not a perfect game however enjoyable it may be.

The extra controller is also great for a foot massage btw.

 

10 isn't a perfect game because there's no such thing. I think £5 is a perfectly reasonable amount for a game like this and the game is fun, novel, balanced , challenging and addictive. Add in low cost to that and it becomes a 10 in my eyes. I always think it over a lot when I hand out a ten, which I've only really done a handful of times, but I know that there's no point holding back on a high score just because you don't want to give out a ten and want to be seen as a hard-to-please kind of super serious critic. All you're doing then is making 8 or 9 your new 10.

 

I understand where you are coming from, and I don't think what I intended to say actually came across right, just goes to show that thinking before typing is a GOOD idea folks

I honestly don't know how to express what I mean without it seeming like I am putting your review down or making it seem to personal and appearing that I'm saying "you're wrong!111onezmgbbq".
It's more that generally I think all reviews seem to be looking at it through rose tinted nostalgic glasses or similar, a couple of places have given it a ten despite flaws that the reviewers picked up on (and written in the review) such as the difficulty curve and I think it's that generally I'm having a hard time understanding exactly how they are rating stuff more than anything.
Is the review based on technical achievement? Fun factor? Value for money? or all of them then averaged?

Maybe its because I see things as fun/£ too much and that 800 points (or approx £6.85 based on £17.99/2100 points) is a little over the top for this particular title.

I do however still hold your reviews in higher regard than most of the rest that I read so please don't think this is a personal attack on you or your review style or anything like that, its more of a gripe at the industry as a whole for a lack of clarification and justification for 10's/perfect scores.
So it's ok, I still loves ya

 

Lol - you don't need to worry about pissing me off.

The fact is, with games it's harder to rate than hardware. There's no charts or objectivity, which is why we don't break the scores down and we don't do decimals. There's realistically no way to objectify all that and the sites which do use decimals etc are most likely doing it to keep publishers happy IMO.

Instead, we kind of go on an overview or gut feeling. We know a 7 would be a game that is interesting to most players and not just to genre fans, though that game still has flaws. We know a 5 is game which has enough flaws to only be interesting to serious genre fans (hence, 5 is not a bad game, just a worse game than a 7 and, conversely, 7 is not the average or middle-score). We know 9 is a game which is very close to being excellent, but is probably bought down by one or two flaws that really mar aspects of the game, etc.

In this case, Rez does have one or two issues. It's a bit short and the difficulty is a bit odd. However, everything else is excellent. Normally, that would mean it gets a 9 - but the strengths of Rez are so interesting and new (plus the game reaches a level of artistry rarely seen in games) that the strengths overpower the weaknesses. It has flaws, but the game manages to overcome them and remain addictive and fun. The quick style of play means the difficulty (which is odd, but never hugely unfair) adds length and replay value and, while that would normally be a flaw by making players do the same levels over and over, the artistry and design makes it a delight, not a chore.

Perhaps it wasn't clear in the article (sorry), but for being a 9/10 game that manages to overcome it's inherent flaws through clever design and artistry, Rez becomes a 10/10 - especially when it's only a fiver.

 

This is the best game review i've read this year

 

I've always wanted to try Rez, but sadly I don't have a x360 nor a playstation. FInding the original game would be a difficult thing to do as well....
PS3 has flow, X360 has Rez. Unfair, as flow is relaxing but a bit short...

 

Downloaded this and WOW! what a great remake it blew me away, if you loved the orignal then your love this, it plays like it use to but looks so much more better, its pure eye candy!

 

You should like this link:
http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2002/10/26/sex_in_games_rezvibrator.html#000141

 

lol i saw the game girl advanced thing a while ago, thats what they intended. for couples with gamers in the relationship..

 

ROFL... So they pay you to play with vibrators?

 

the first thing that i find interesting is the conversion between $ and £.....
the second is the game it self.... looks amazing..... but i never heard of it, i think it never came here.

 

It is not so hard to find a second hand copy of REZ. Play.com sells one for £35,-- and eBay has them for about £20,--. And a PS2 costs not very much these days.

 

LOL. I love your analogies! Good stuff.

Interesting though. Learning curve aside, it sounds interesting to tinker around with.

 

Gotta find where the soundtrack is sold. They have Freeland on it.

 

I heard my friends vaugely raving about this on the PS2 but it passed me by. But for a fiver on Live Arcade, what's not to like. Didn't even bother with the demo. Crumbs, it's a bit tasty isn't it. I should also add that I play on a 9 foot HD projector screen and all that trip out stuff veritably fills the room with retro-funky joy.

Live Arcade is so far reason enough to have a 360... I've also found that if you place it in the middle of a virgin wine box with six bottles of finest cabernet sauvignon either side of it the noise isn't too bad either

 

Yep, I've been playing it this morning for a while... it's pretty addictive.

 

Just found out too in the settings theres a place where u can set an extra xbox pad to be the trance Vibrator

 

You can set up to 3