Tell me GamesRadar, why did you high an extreme Anti-Nintendo fanboy as your Assosiate Editor in the UK?

UGH! I'm sick of people using Rock Band and Guitar Hero as an excuse to talk about their "prowess" on an actual instrument. I've been playing guitar for almost 15 years and I have a bachelors degree in jazz music and I LOVE Rock Band, I think it's a great way to introduce a variety of music styles to children/teens/adults who are only exposed to Jonas Brothers and 50 cent.

HOW CAN THEY HATE HALO 3, CALL OF DUTY 4, AND GTA IV!!!??? SOMEONE BOOK THEM INTO A PSYCHIATRISTS!

YES!!! finally someone else who hates halo and the sims!
good job gamesradar. it took guts to write something that could cause riots in gamer communities everywhere.

i agree with most of them. i think cod4 is gay. i thought i was the only one out their who did! i now know im not alone. halo is ok. and by the way, to anyone who writes long, insulting comments, noone stops to read all of it because they have better things to do. they have no life

I don't agree with Halo or GTA 4, but everything else is true.

I Cannot agree more about GTA4, I don;t see the point. I think the missions are gay, controls are odd, cheats suck, unlike GTASA, and multiplayer pretty crappy too.

I am just so frikin shocked that anyone would hate grand theft auto. I am still totally freakin out at my computer wondering how someone would be able to udder that crap out of thier mouths. This is the BIGGEST peice of crap and waste of time I have ever witnest!!!

With the exceptions of the reviews of Super Mario World, Call of Duty 4, and GTA IV, I agree with the rest of this article thingy. Though I haven't even played REZ, ICO and Braid...

i cant understand how people love guitar hero/rock band so much. yes i used to be a guitar hero person, until i actually heard GOOD music. the cheap thrill of guitar hero and rock band is rediculous (is that spelled right?) because if you really want to be a musician, go out and pick up a REAL guitar or some REAL drumsticks instead of the cheap plastic controllers that hardly look like the real thing. So stop living in a fake fantasy and take the time to learn to play an instrument. Its a lot more fun and way more satisfying.

I do not like CoD 4 at all and not so much because of the game itself. I hate it because of all the trashtalking you receive when you play it online. You would swear everybody who plays that game just hates females altogether. It makes for a horrible gaming experience. I also did not like the fact that there few spawn points so it never failed there was always somebody camping the spawn areas and killing people as they spawned and then acting like they actually did something great..

I love Rainbow Six Vegas (both of them).... Terrorist Hunt is fun and the way the game controls is good.

Halo 3: I totally agree about the hype of that game. Personally, I was disappointed with 3 when it came out. I thought 2 was much better even though the graphics were not as good. I didn't like the AR when it was in the first Halo, and I really didn't like it in the 3rd one and almost every matchmaking game has that as your default weapon.. Even though I rarely play Halo 3 online anymore it is still fun to play it at LAN parties.

Gears of War 2: I like Gears 2 better than the first one. The Horde was a nice addition. I agree about the darkness of everything especially if you play on an older LCD TV makes it really hard to see what you are doing.

I never really got into the FF games so I cannot comment on those.

You know what games I really hate the most? All of the Madden games.. I mean really, what is the point?? they bring out a new game every year that is the same as the one before but with different players and maybe different uniforms.. All they need to do with those is sell one game and just have DLC updates every year if you just have to have the up-to-date teams.

i agree with a lot of those but not modern warfare, GTA 4 and GTA San andreas

OMFG!!! i was hoping SOMEONE would mention halo cause you know what... it sucks!

Need it be said? HALO FRIGGIN SUCKS!!!!!!!!
The graphics are good but nothing compared to Gears 1&2. OMFG! Most of my friends on xbox live think its so cool.

I agree with a lot of that. Halo is very basic and unappealing, but for some reason i love it. I love Mario Kart, but I agree with you about the Wii version and that the DS one is the best. I agree with the Grand Theft Auto as well. I just can not see why people like that violent trash. I also agree with Guitar Hero and Rockband, seeing that I do not like the music. I would much rather play Ouendon. I do not however agree with Super Mario World. I loved the simplistic art style in the game. Also seeing as do not like the Sonic games very much (even the older ones) I much prefer Mario.

Actually, I think that CoD4 was claimed by PC Gamer UK in the review to be a copy of one season of 24. I don't know as I don't watch it, but Tom Francis spotted so many similarities that he was sure that it WASN'T a copy.

Jack Finlay,

Never bought any of them. Never will. Not my
type of gaming.

agreed about halo 3, i find it hard to play. its the same old game they had since 01 only with different levels and same controls. i hate halo controls, their inverted, thats why i rarely play it and why i cannot kill anybody even at point blank with a shotgun. the gameplay is unrealistic as they only have beam and laser guns, id prefer it if they actually had an ak-74 in the game or any "real" gun. sure the shotgun is almost as real as it gets, but seriously. the sniper is useless, ever try killing somebody at point blank range with a sniper, yes because there's no such thing as getting a clear shot with it in the halo world. people always seem to know where i am, screenlooking cheaters! i finally have to say that 99% of the time i played halo on live, the other players are usually a bunch of jerks who like listening to themselves swearing at others.

Firstly, as someone new to commenting on Gamesradar articles (although I have been a some time viewer of the site in general over the last 5+ years), I want to say how refreshing, informative and fun this site is-
it's clearly written by people who love games but are willing to insult some of their readers and some 'sacred cows' in videogames if it is the right thing to do.

I also wondered whether I was doing something wrong when I was playing Silent Hill 2. I knew that people said it was possibly the best in the series but not knowing where to go next in the fog was just frustrating.

As for Super Mario World, the article says 'The level design does not seem as intricate as Super Mario Bros 3 nor as simple and enjoyable as SMB1'. OK, so it's somewhere in between. Is there necessarily something wrong with not being at the extremes?

As for the graphics, the huge size of some of the Bullet Bill sprites and the rotational scaling on the bosses perhaps made it stand out but the Megadrive was doing that last effect on Puggsy a couple of years later. Super Mario World does have some nice fog effects in parts and an interesting colour palette that goes for subdued natural colours. But Miyamoto was still unwise to knock Rare's great 'Donkey Kong Country', hinting that was all graphics and no game, although he did apologise for that as he had been under pressure to make Yoshi's Island in the same style. Given the Megadrive's Sonic games, as well as Sega's frutiful relationship with Disney, I think that the Megadrive had a larger number of great platformers.

Regarding GTAIV, saying 'We'll fight to the end to defend your right to fantasize about running over hookers in purloined vehicles; we just wonder why anyone thinks that's fun.' is a relatively rare view for a games site to admit to. They rightly conclude that wanting freedom of speech does not mean that we have to necessarily like what people use that freedom to say.

halo3 gets borning but,when you find secrets like the grunt that talks funny on the last level, its fun.