TeamXbox Weighs Chromehounds in at 8.7

[Intruder]

TeamXbox (http://www.teamxbox.com/) gave Chromehounds an 8.7 out 10. (http://reviews.teamxbox.com/xbox-360/1193/Chromehounds/p1/)

The first non-negative review from a realiable source. Does this change anyone's mind?

[Jack B]

TeamXbox (http://www.teamxbox.com/) gave Chromehounds an 8.7 out 10. (http://reviews.teamxbox.com/xbox-360/1193/Chromehounds/p1/)

The first non-negative review from a realiable source. Does this change anyone's mind?

Well, I was sold anyway, but this comment

Will people embrace the online role-type mentality? The pace of a slow-moving HOUND? Long-range warfare?

was more what I was looking for anyway. That seems to be the issue for people who don't like it. You must like online and those things. If so, then you'll probably love Chromehoumds.

If it's fast paced single player, then you'll probably hate it.

[mightbe]

I was already sold as well but It's good to see a review that actually bites a bit deeper and realizes that the single player is just multi training.

Many reviews did not realize this fact about guildwars either.

[Zeal]

Team-Paidoff Box

[Wslove]

I think every negative review went into this game thinking "Oh gee! Console Mech Game! Bet it's going to be a fast and arcady and have a deep single player story." They wanted MechAssault, but Chromehounds is actually closer to MechWarrior. Since their square peg of expectation didn't fit into the round hole of reality they started doing what critics do best... bashing the game for what it's not rather then judging it for what it is.
It was made to be slow, sim-slow. It was made to have a trillion and one options on how to build your mech to get lost in. It was made for taking your shiney new creation online and testing it against another player's creation. Single player is just training for multiplayer, same with Battlefield 2.
I can't wait to get my hands on this tomorrow. That 100 ton beast that looks like it walked out of Battletech? That'll be me.

[KamaItachi]

Team-Paidoff Box

LOL yeah, imagine them rating a game with incredibly good multiplayer highly.

They should have just stuck with the shitty demo and knew the game was crap like everyone else.

[Savok]

Many reviews did not realize this fact about guildwars either.
Most of them never left the tutorial, why I never bother with reviews anymore, they're all idiots.

[Goronmon]

In one of those reviews, the guy basically says at the end that he only played the single player portion of the game.

[Skjef]

You can create a custom emblem with a bevy of clip art items already loaded onto the disc. Emblems can be up to sixteen layers of fun, with the ability to change colors, enlarge, skew, etc., just as in decal construction.PenisHOUND? (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=173)

But slightly more seriously, this sounds like quite the fun game. Bunnyhopping is all very well and good, but it's gotten pretty fucking old. This honestly sounds like Worms with giant mechs, and how could that be bad?

[Ludoc]

This honestly sounds like Worms with giant mechs, and how could that be bad?If one of the critics' quotes on the cover is "It's like Worms but with giant mechs." I will buy two copies. Seriously.

[CylonLord]

Can't wait to pick up my preordered copy tomorrow. Is there an EvAv squad yet?

[SPBTooL]

Can't wait to pick up my preordered copy tomorrow. Is there an EvAv squad yet?

Check this thread (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14628)

[Intruder]

Okay I will be online with it around 1 or 2 pm CST. I anyone in the squad is online and will be playing duirng Western hours, plz send me an invite to the squad.

[TrackZero]

I'm definitely going to pick this up. (Though maybe not right at launch, since I'll be hard up for cash for the next bit.)

[Mike Jones]

Biased website gives it 8.7 The rest.....

70 Games Radar

This game is predominantly about next generation tank combat, which may strike some people as terribly boring, but for those just itching to join the new era of steel-clad, explosive-hurling champions, Chromehounds delivers the most satisfyingly complete experience available to date.

60 GamePro

Unfortunately, with such drab presentation and predictable gameplay, there isn't enough to sustain interest for long.

56 GameBrink

Overall the gameplay is pretty forgettable and is only saved by the interesting ideas presented online. [JPN Import]

40 EuroGamer

Chromehounds is really, really, really boring to play...Not one that I can imagine Xbox 360 players sticking with for more than a handful of hours tops, no matter how starved they are for new releases at the moment.

[Captain Awesome]

Im very, very, very confused. We're majority of these reviews just based on its SP design and not most of these really got into the MP part of it?

Or was it jus a general consensus that the game just delivered the same gameplay experience online as it did in single-player?


:confused:

[Jack B]

Im very, very, very confused. We're majority of these reviews just based on its SP design and not most of these really got into the MP part of it?

Or was it jus a general consensus that the game just delivered the same gameplay experience online as it did in single-player?


:confused:

I've heard only the Japanese servers have been functioning well at present. Communication and coordination is key for the online environment. The single player is just a training mission for the multiplayer, so this title is ripe for some very scattered reviews.

Game www.gamerankings.com usually has about 40 to 120 reviews for the bigger titles. The US/Canada gets this title Wed, so in the next 2 weeks we'll get more reviews and a better sense for things.

I think the SP vs MP aspects of this will make the reviews scattered,(ie it's like 2 different completely different games) but especially this early before the US/Europre servers have gotten online. I heard many European's had to log into Japanese servers.

It's early. I would wait for a couple of weeks, although I've read many posts from users and I'm not concerned.

[Watership]

Biased website gives it 8.7 The rest.....

70 Games Radar

This game is predominantly about next generation tank combat, which may strike some people as terribly boring, but for those just itching to join the new era of steel-clad, explosive-hurling champions, Chromehounds delivers the most satisfyingly complete experience available to date.

60 GamePro

Unfortunately, with such drab presentation and predictable gameplay, there isn't enough to sustain interest for long.

56 GameBrink

Overall the gameplay is pretty forgettable and is only saved by the interesting ideas presented online. [JPN Import]

40 EuroGamer

Chromehounds is really, really, really boring to play...Not one that I can imagine Xbox 360 players sticking with for more than a handful of hours tops, no matter how starved they are for new releases at the moment.


You bought Chromehounds? There have been 5 reviews. Three of them seem to ignore the Multiplayer portion of the game. I'll wait until i see more reviews.

And really Mike, you're not exactly the pinacle of objectivity. :)

[Captain Awesome]

It's early. I would wait for a couple of weeks, although I've read many posts from users and I'm not concerned.


Thanks for the info dude :)

[vistigris]

While I'm interested in Chromehounds, I think that I'm just going to end up renting it and probably not buying it. Need to save my cash for games that I know that I have to have.

[KamaItachi]

I've heard only the Japanese servers have been functioning well at present.

Sl1pstream has been saying the server problems are much better, but my experience over the last week or so was that they were pretty rubbish. Over half the time they were down for maintainance. I heard, oddly that there was a bigger problem with players in Asia signing into the Jp servers than folks in Europe had.

[Sl1pstream]

I couldn't get online since the European release date (as more and more people bought the game), they finally fixed that yesterday, making Europe take it up the ass once again.

[theguido]

I don't think we can get a real fair sense from the reviews that are out there, but I think as a general rule it's a good idea to look a bit more skeptically at reviews on console-specific sites.

Not to say that they're wrong, but I'm just saying that I never put much weight in the GameCube reviews at PlanetGameCube, etc. etc.

[Vandenh]

Eurogamer also gave it a bad score.. they are reliable but very harsh sometimes. I am sure that after a while the game will probably score in the 70s on average. Haven't picked it up since I am going on holiday today for two weeks.

[Sl1pstream]

Eurogamer also gave it a bad score.. they are reliable but very harsh sometimes.

They didn't even mention the Neroimus war.

[Zawath]

Eurogamer gave Sensible Soccer 2006 9/10 and that's says it all about their credibility.

[Kefkataran]

While I'll certainly check this out, looking over TeamXbox's review history, they don't seem to ever give 360 titles a score lower than 7.5 or so (save for the astoundingly bad X-Men game which you'd have to be legally retarded to rate over 5/10). Just something worth pointing out.

[Wyrm]

I still need to know more about this one before I'm sold. Could be what I'm looking for, but so far, it doesnt sound like it. I suppose I'll wait on lost planet for my mech action. The demo is hella fun.

[TRiLoGY]

I played the Demo but found it quite boring. This appears to be more of a MP game, I probably wont be picking this up as im more interested in the SP Story side of Games..

[Morratut]

It won't change my mind. I found this very boring and slow for me. :(

I wanted nothing slower than Armoured Core.

Plus it annoyed the hell out of me when I fired a salvo of rockets at 1 soldier on the floor. All hit really close to him. He didn't even die by the blast waves :rolleyes:

I'm glad some of you are getting a good Mech fix though :)

[Dr Quincy]

Eurogamer gave Sensible Soccer 2006 9/10 and that's says it all about their credibility.

Justify that statement. Sensi '06 is a work of art. Chrome Hounds sounds like an over-hyped work of tedium.

[Akeldama]

We've held off our review at Boomtown until we could get more time with the multiplayer. It seemed such a waste of time just playing the single player section, which serves as more of a tutorial for the multiplayer aspects. So although we're late with a review compared to some sites, in the next couple of days one hopes we'll have a fairer all-round review of the game.

[Savok]

See, this is the problem with most review sites, rush rush rush and beat everyone else. Thank you for actually taking the time to play the game, Akel, god knows most of these other bastards don't.

God, I remember Hyper was terrible for it, you'd read the review, play the game and discover they'd managed to get everything completely wrong because they barely managed to get past chosing "New Game".

[Norse]

While I'll certainly check this out, looking over TeamXbox's review history, they don't seem to ever give 360 titles a score lower than 7.5 or so (save for the astoundingly bad X-Men game which you'd have to be legally retarded to rate over 5/10). Just something worth pointing out.

I too have noticed this, but to me they really don't come across as biased. There are not many games for the X360 that I would rate under 7.5.

[Dr Quincy]

I too have noticed this, but to me they really don't come across as biased. There are not many games for the X360 that I would rate under 7.5.

There are not many games for the X360 that I would rate over 7.5.

[Norse]

There are not many games for the X360 that I would rate over 7.5.

We can agree on 7.5 then? :)

[Dr Quincy]

We can agree on 7.5 then? :)

No. I demand tedious forum conflict!

[Salesmunn]

I don't think we can get a real fair sense from the reviews that are out there, but I think as a general rule it's a good idea to look a bit more skeptically at reviews on console-specific sites.

Not to say that they're wrong, but I'm just saying that I never put much weight in the GameCube reviews at PlanetGameCube, etc. etc.

What's a Gamecube? ;-)

[Mike Jones]

And really Mike, you're not exactly the pinacle of objectivity. :)

I didn't write the 4 bad reviews....The mechs move like snails. Just buy Prey instead, you will only be getting a little more ripped off ;)

[EvilBob46]

rant

Fascinating: "certain people" around here ignore great games that come out on the PS2 or Gamecube because they aren't on their precious Xbox, and then gather like the hounds around something like this. Wow. (EDIT: I removed the word ''turd'' when referring to this game to fight off the incoming horde)

/rant

[bapenguin]

I didn't write the 4 bad reviews....The mechs move like snails. Just buy Prey instead, you will only be getting a little more ripped off ;)

I like how you omitted the Famitsu review of the game.

[KamaItachi]

rant

Fascinating: "certain people" around here ignore great games that come out on the PS2 or Gamecube because they aren't on their precious Xbox, and then gather like the hounds around something like this. Wow. (EDIT: I removed the word ''turd'' when referring to this game to fight off the incoming horde)

/rant

The difference is that most of the good impressions are coming from people who have had the game for a week or so and have spent a lot of it playing online, especially the online war while most of the negative reviews sound like they played one or 2 games, decided that it was "too slow", wondered why the 3 howitzers they put on the top of their scout kept missing (hint, it took me a few trial runs to figure out weight ratios and placement have a huge affect on combat and how you control your hound which nobody seems to mention) and wrote the rest off because it was probably the same as the single player.

As another poster here has pointed out, most of them read like they were rushed out in an attempt to get a really good exclusive and failed to get any grasp of what the game is like.

[EvilBob46]

The difference is that most of the good impressions are coming from people who have had the game for a week or so and have spent a lot of it playing online, especially the online war while most of the negative reviews sound like they played one or 2 games, decided that it was "too slow", wondered why the 3 howitzers they put on the top of their scout kept missing (hint, it took me a few trial runs to figure out weight ratios and placement have a huge affect on combat and how you control your hound which nobody seems to mention) and wrote the rest off because it was probably the same as the single player.

As another poster here has pointed out, most of them read like they were rushed out in an attempt to get a really good exclusive and failed to get any grasp of what the game is like.

Fine. The game comes out today; let's see how the reviews that come days after the release fare if the other ones have been rushed.

[Mike Jones]

I like how you omitted the Famitsu review of the game.

Why don't you post the scans for me..and translate it while your at it :)

[bone_matrix]

Why don't you post the scans for me..and translate it while your at it :)

This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromehounds) has the Famitsu score.

Here (http://www.xboxyde.com/gallery_2710_en.html) are some scans.

As far as translating...I'll leave that to someone else. I only do so much work. I don't want to be an overachiever. :D

On a side note, I'm looking forward to this game.

[Goronmon]

Fascinating: "certain people" around here ignore great games that come out on the PS2 or Gamecube because they aren't on their precious Xbox, and then gather like the hounds around something like this. Wow. (EDIT: I removed the word ''turd'' when referring to this game to fight off the incoming horde)What about people who own all the systems and still look forward to Chromehounds? aka me.

[Sinistar]

The Neroimus War portion of Chromehounds’s online area is essentially a persistent campaign that allows you to fight for one of three nations looking to control a land mass.

While I was pretty much sold on this game at E3, reading this snippet above in the Team Xbox review just made me a bit more giddy about pre-ordering it.

[Intruder]

Here are the review breakdowns so far, though I don't really care what alot of the hack reviewers have to say. I try to listen to the players more than anything.

Eurogamer 40%
Famistu 83%
Gamebrink 56%
Gamepro 60%
Games Radar 70%
Team Xbox 87%
UndergroundOnline 75%

Average 67%
4 positive reviews and 3 negative.

Also of note the reviews that seemed to like the game were released yesterday, after the servers in Europe were fixed apparently.

[TheBrainKills]

Ya gotta love the Sony Trolls in this thread.

I love my Mech games, but I am getting tired of the old circle dance where you would set your torso one way and blast away.
This game sounds more like a six unit squad where a coordinated attack will be a blast to play.
So count me in, as I am off to the store to purchase my copy of ChromeHounds today.

[Savok]

I'm gonna have to buy this game, I can see that coming. This is 360 right? Just I got one site saying Xbox here...

[Kefkataran]

Yes, Savok, it's 360.

[Savok]

Fecking site. Still that means I'd need a 360... need a wireless router then as well, might be best though, I still have probably the very first ADSL modem ever made.

[Kefkataran]

You should get a 360 so that I can add you to my friends list and heckle you/solicit you for pictures. Constantly.

[Savok]

I actually have a Live account (Savok) already from my two hours with Crimson Skies (I love the game, got to play with the guys from Mac Hall (http://www.machall.com/) even, just couldn't find a game outside them any other time) and my hour of attempting to play Halo 2 online, which reminded me how much I hate fast paced FPS. Haven't used since Halo 2's release though... should still be active, I'm still paying the bastards. I'm all inspired now, but it's almost 5am and lack of sleep sometimes makes me content with existence.

Wireless Internet... bah, that shit can't be healthy.

[Intruder]

Just got home wityh my copy here I go!!!

[Sl1pstream]

Although I don't know how they work, there are in-game elections. You can also donate cash to your nation, which gives you an achievement.

[Salamande]

Completely and utterly OT - About your sig...

"My math teacher staples Burger King applications to failed tests." :: bash.org
...Goddamn, that's the funniest thing I've heard of in a while. I've got to try that next time I turn in papers. (Yeah, I'm a teacher...)

[fitbabits]

Worth noting (again) from the IGN review:

Before going any further, it needs to be said that Chromehounds is essentially an online game. If you don't have access Xbox Live, you're going to want to stay far away from this one. It's not for lack of single player content that Chromehounds fails; it's just that it's incredibly boring to play through. Offered are six, seven mission campaigns, each focusing on specific mech Role Types (RT). Split up into degrees of difficulty, players will play as a Scout, Defender, Soldier, Heavy Gunner, Commander and Sniper. Each RT campaign, despite being surrounded by story and filled with numerous characters, falls flat.
From the 'Lasting Appeal' summary:

Lasting Appeal - 8.5 An [sic] nearly unrivaled amount of Hound customization and online options await players. Playing online also opens the door for tactical play, though the same mediocre gameplay persists.
Final score - 6.9
Link to review (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/718/718234p1.html).

[Kefkataran]

(Yeah, I'm a teacher...)

We actually have a number of them on EvAv. Always glad to see another.

[Salamande]

We actually have a number of them on EvAv. Always glad to see another.
http://education.missouri.edu/inc2006/images/our-logos/MU%20COE%20LOGO%20-medium.jpg

Thanks. I'm a teacher's teacher, even. Children are our future, and all that...

And now, to guide this a bit closer to the topic, check out the new Chromehounds review over at Gametrailers (http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=2161). The score itself is middling, but the actual review is quite in-depth and positive. They really seemed to "get" the game, calling it the "Gran Turismo of mech games," which sounds about right.

[ElPresidente]

I just want to know when on Earth an Internet review site (that isn't Eurogamer) was considered a reliable source. :D

[Intruder]

teacher here too.

Also, we have been having a blast on CH online.

[Akeldama]

Spent quite a bit of time playing online last night and it was the best experience I've ever had on Live. I joined a squad with a bunch of friends from a forum and we had great fun joining in the persistant war. Playing well as a team with one guy working as a commander was wonderul. Reviews based mostly on the single player really have missed the point.

[ElPresidente]

Good to hear, I've not even remotely followed this game but I do like Mechs. :D

[mightbe]

The game gets a fucking 9 from me. Great title, some flaws, but great title all the way.