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Terminator Salvation Game Launched, PC Version Recalled
On Tuesday, the video game tie-in to the Terminator Salvation movie was launched for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Most reviews pegged the game as solidly mediocre; IGN said, "the action is fairly tame throughout and the cutscenes are stunningly ordinary. And yet despite the poor presentation, there are some clever gameplay elements that make Terminator enjoyable. Too bad that joy only lasts a handful of hours before the credits roll." However, customers who had purchased the retail PC version ran into installation errors, leaving them unable to play the game. Now, publisher Evolved has issued a recall for that version of the game, saying, "a defect occurred during replication," and promising a replacement plan for people who had purchased it.
I just discovered this game tonight, and it will REALLY surprise me if it comes back without being polished up - because yes... the game is boring. Your main mission is to save a couple of guys. Thats it. No big bosses, simple battles the whole way.
I doubt that they're gonna do much more than come up with a new gold copy. Its not like they're gonna drop a big boss battle into the game as part of an install fix.
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A mediocre movie spin off game? I have never heard of such a thing, I am shocked I tell you, shocked.
The game sucks. No wonder PCs won't install it. Most players won't get that lucky with other games.
There is currently a "non-scene" working release available on torrents and such. Basically someone repackaged the game (manually done some tasks that installer should have done automatically) in a matter of hours. Question is: why do paying customers get to wait for the replacement "plan" to be put together? Why isn't there a downloadable fix put together by developers? Clearly it doesn't take much time to make.
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I agree. Why would they publish for a platform that has the most profitable game ever by a wide margin? Damn these people are stupid.
Is it just me, or does anyone else find the fact of the game based on the movie launching two days BEFORE THE ACTUAL FILM a little irritating? IIRC, this was the case with Quantum of Solace as well.
I don't think I like this trend...
another game release that people need to acquire "illegally" if they purchased it in a box
My son purchased Crysis and then found he could not install the game so he went on-line and pirated it. Normally my son is quite happy to buy software but when things like this happen you sort of wonder why bother to purchase.
In all fairness at least the company concerned with making the Terminator game has offered to replace it and I doubt if you try to pirate the faulty game it will work. Still you never know because I have had legitimately purchased games before that I had to get so called illegal cracks and patches for the game to work properly.
IMHO console games normally have little if any problems than PC games although one or two sometimes get through, however they are normally replaced when the customers complain. On the other hand time PC games normally do get fixed eventually but whether it is a Console or PC it is still annoying.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
Ahhh, consolization at its best. Games being dumbed down, franchises becoming more important then creating good stories and/or gameplay, release dates being set in stone weather a game is ready for release or not, repetition being used in every conceivable way to artificially lengthen games without writing new code/assets.
By the sounds of it, the Terminator game is a turd and no amount of polish will make a turd interesting to play.
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I wonder if they decided that they had to put assloads of DRM in and THAT was what was broken.
the Master System from which all their little consoles derived.
What?
Sounds more like 'a defect occured in QAing replicated discs'.
Lots of money spent on a name instead of dev time.
The money spent on the name wouldn't be otherwise spent on dev time; it would be otherwise spent on promotion and other marketing to build an original franchise and make potential customers aware of it.
It's a game I recall with great fondness, never mind how few colours it had.
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Looks like if you want to play the game now, You can download it and play a working copy.
Or you can use steam, for simplicity.
Pirates 1, publisher 0.
They're using their grammar skills there.
You should never play any game that's directly tied to a movie. Especially one that comes out the same time the actual movie comes out.
First you know they got a small budget. The game itself is categorized by the movie industry the same way a movie-themed lunch box is. Just as extra merchandise to turn a quick buck.
Second you know they don't have a realistic time frame to make these games good. There's no "When it's done" type speak. There's no "Hopefully we'll have it out by Q4 2009". It's out when the movie comes out, regardless of how much is fixed or broken.
Third, if you actually care about the stories in games, then you know movie games don't have very good stories. There's no imagination with it since you already know the plot-line. You already know what's going to happen since you've already seen the movie. Again this isn't a big deal to most people but it does matter to some.
Ok, I'm sleepy and I'm going to bed. I didn't even know there was a new terminator movie coming out until I heard an ad on the radio a few weeks ago.