Gamespot review - God Hand

[misterpacha1]

omg I thought I was the only one who ever loved this game, man oh man, thank u lord for having people like u guys. Ign sucks sometimes. And I miss that big south american accent speaking badguy he was freakin funny

[HenryKrinkle666]

What the fuck, Chris Roper?! This game is awesome!

[d21lewis]

This guy should have been in Marvel vs Capcom 3.

[Honestabe86]

Urban Reign is better

[thekingofirony]

i might get this,its on psn now.

[IblisLucario64]

kinda looks like madworld

[key099able]

@IblisLucario64 the dodge move looks like madworlds

[IblisLucario64]

@key099able i forgot that madworld was made by platinum games(clover studios)

[AuDazzity]

Apparently IGN based the entire review only on stage 1.

[VayuPurana]

0:41 that poor clown.....lol

[michaeljetfire]

I want to know just what the hell IGN saw in this game that made it get such a bad review... cause... seriously... i see greatness here, not a pile of crap like they made it sound. long live god hand.

[AcousticGuitarFTW]

@michaeljetfire If it's not CoD they won't give it a good review.

[metamorphiclouds]

I loled when he said beat up thugs.

[BlademasterReborn]

This game is on PSN now for $10 :)

[AMVRebirth]

Got the game.. but no ps2 :(

[bobbarker1984]

Remember when gamespot was actually a great website? This brings me back

[gilgamesh310]

"The 3d beat em ups have mostly been rather bad" Does that mean he thinks God of War and Devil May Cry are bad?

[MrLoadingscreen]

@gilgamesh310 God of War and Devil May Cry are Hack 'n' slashers, not beat 'em ups.

[gilgamesh310]

@MrLoadingscreen Some would argue differently. The only real differences in the games are that melee weapons are used instead of your fists. And you do get weapons that allow you to punch enemies in DMC and GoW as well.

[felphero]

the only thing this game lacks is some kind of aerial attack, like in Devil May Cry, it's just so satisfying to throw enemies into the air jump land some combos in their faces and end up with a fierce finisher on the ground, but oh well, solid game noneles!

[artboy598]

I wonder who'd win between Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes and Jin from this game?

[demonhuskfang]

@artboy598 you mean gene?

[artboy598]

@demonhuskfang yeah

[gomezgomas]

1:37, nice cut!, you were fucked!

[0RecklessAbandon0]

fuck yea Capcom dialogue

[GorillaFireface]

thumbs up if you agree Gamespot did a better review on this game than IGN did.

[Oimae]

@GorillaFireface IGNorant gave it a 2...

[aPleaforMuffins]

@GorillaFireface ign Ignorant Gamers Nationwide



[MrNinjaNicoara]

"But we want the arm" LOL

[firebreathingllama]

I'm nearly in tears it is so damn funny.

[cedricgabionza]

this is better when i played the ps2 version on ps3 it feels so smooth

[dmajorhiphopproducer]

@cedricgabionza how did you play it on ps3? Do you mean it's on PSN for download? :P

[cedricgabionza]

@dmajorhiphopproducer just buy the ps2 version and play it on ps3

[AMVRebirth]

took me weeks to beat this motherfucker... best ps2 Game EVER.. CROWNED !.. KING !!!

[rodrigokakashi]

Easy Mode? Want me to hold your hand, Gamespot?

[dhol101]

simply the greatest game ever

[hrjert1]

what about god of war thats a beat em up

[smbz821]

@hrjert1 it's a hack-and-slash, almost the same thing but with blades, DMC is a hack-and-slash game too...

[kazuyasays]

Cool, actually decent review of Godhand, except it only got 8/10? I didn't hear anything bad about the game in this review, so why did it lose 2 points? This is the best game of its kind

[eightySeventh]

@kazuyasays Scores mean fuck all.

[MediaMeandyou]

@kazuyasays its better than ign's retarded score for the game - they gave it a 3!

[kazuyasays]

@MediaMeandyou Anything is better than IGN, even butt rape

[MediaMeandyou]

@kazuyasays even prostate cancer

[kazuyasays]

@MediaMeandyou It's better at its job description than IGN is Highfive

[smbz821]

@kazuyasays gamespot simply thinks it's a great game, not a perfect game, but I really think it deserves a 9, this is an example of a good 3D beat-em-up, my only problem is that the enviroment is UGLY, but I guess the reason why it only got an 8 is because it just revived and refreshed the beat-em-up genre, it didn't really add anything totally new that raised the standard for gaming unlike super mario galaxy which really is different from all the other 3D platformers.

[Wolfwood824]

@kazuyasays

9/10 and up is reserved for big-name titles and advertisers.

[kazuyasays]

@Wolfwood824 Ah, at least they have a logical system in place then

[bierbuik]

@kazuyasays ?? listen better, he says the levels are kind of repetitive and the gameplay can be awkward at times.

[number0017]

@kazuyasays doesn't have a great story that about it

[martyback]

@kazuyasays Think about what 9/10 means. Almost perfect. 10/10 means perfect. God Hand may be great in scope of 3D beat-em-ups but in terms of all of gaming, is it a perfect game? Could there not have been anything better about it?

[marthedge]

@martyback No.

Out of all of the games I have ever played, this is the one that has completely solidified its place as a grand game, the gameplay is so dynamic that it's a genre-defining game, and as for all of gaming in general, this is one of those games that is a work of art during the era.

This deserves a 10/10.

[link1stheman]

@kazuyasays well the graphics are not perfect for sure as well as the story and voice acting can be very silly! I personally love this game but an 8 is certainly not a bad score its very good actually!

[kazuyasays]

@link1stheman I dunno, it's not that kind of game. The game isn't about graphics or story, I think that Clover achieved everything they set out to do, the game is a masterpiece. There was nothing to compete with it at the time, and nothing to compete with it now, not in this genre. 8/10 is a positive score, but I don't think it reflects what God Hand achieved.

[link1stheman]

@kazuyasays yeah I can agree with that! seriously though this game just come out on PSN and I've been playing it non stop! SOOOOOO GOOD!

[kazuyasays]

@link1stheman Hell yeah! Had you played it before?

[link1stheman]

@kazuyasays nope I just started a few days ago, its suprising really Ive been playing action/fighting games like dmc and ninja gaiden for years but had NOOOO idea how good this one was!

[kingcamilo]

taze his ass 1:50!

[SuperSs04]

all the comments were made by the people who couldn't beat the game

[cidonn]

"only thong I'm givin' up is asskicking!" hahahah

[bosnia91]

This game is basically tekken 4, force mode.

[EmeraldStarshooter]

gene can't block because blocking is for pussies!!! lol XD

[Mcheetah]

"Long"? You can beat the game in a couple hours. Unless you spend half a day at the casino trying to get a million dollars to buy all the move upgrades, the game is just the right length. By the last level, you start to get a LITTLE bit tired, but you know it's almost over by then.

But this is an excellent review, even if the guy doesn't seem toreally like the game all that much. It's fair and mostly accurate.

[KushLeagueChampions]

This looks like a bad trigun episode

[andy7666]

@KushLeagueChampions Silly bunny - this is nothing like Trigun, its also an EXCELLENT game.

[Slinker19]

why do some game reviewers not know what their talking about?

[smbz821]

lol I just finished playing no more heroes 2 desperate struggle then I thought about gene, who else beats a bunch of baddies up in an awesome way? so I played the game on my ps2, now I only have two questions, will there be a sequel? and who would win in a fight, travis or gene? XD

[MrUFClaw]

@smbz821 gene all the way!!

[duagnelo]

this game is the shit. i'd buy a ps3 only to play a sequel of this game.

[party999999]

well its too bad for you that this game summed its self up nicely with Gene having both hands and no room for a second game. Though you can always pray for a spiritual successor.

[eightySeventh]

@party999999 "No room for a second game"? Are you kidding? The game's ending pretty much tells you to expect a sequel when it says "There might be another Azel someday" and "Now we have two of these God Hands to defend!".

If Clover hadn't shut, I expect we'd already have a God Hand 2 on the PS3. It's Capcom's call though, and I don't think they're interested.

[party999999]

With two God hands on Gene there is no room for a second devil hand, whom Azel used to get to the earthly plain. I guess there could be room for one, but it would involve more arm-loss. To me though it just felt nicely finished and a second game would just be redundant. But had it exisisted I would buy a PS3 just to play it XD

[eightySeventh]

@party999999 Though the game had a lot of memorable cutscenes, I wouldn't say the plot was particularly memorable, or that it had much depth beyond the basic "beat up baddies" idea. I don't think many fans of the original would be upset if a cheap storytelling device was used to set-up a sequel.

[party999999]

I thought the story was great. Nuff said.

[icyrazor]

Now it's platinum games and well Bayonetta was worse for the PS3..I unno why.

[eightySeventh]

@icyrazor Platinum and Clover aren't the same company. Clover was part-owned by Capcom. When Capcom closed them down, a lot of the staff went elsewhere, but the majority formed Platinum.

[icyrazor]

Well only the important figures went to Platinum, the directors

[gluesniff3r]

@icyrazor Bayonetta was worse for the PS3 because it was ported over real late.

It was original supposed to come out just for the 360.

[supermanuman95]

cuze it was created for the 360 and then badly passed to the ps3

[XREMIX92]

@icyrazor

It was shitty on PS3 thanks to SEGA!!!!! Fuckheads!!!!!!

[TwistyMcFisty]

I love this game.

[zebure]

just bought it, was a randon game pick :P

this game is really funn :D.

[swixomix]

watch the credits for this game

[Rasnik]

"Only thing im giving up is an ass kicking". He speaks the truth! The game is awsome, wish i had it but now it´s to late :(

[RichJT87]

Great great game,... Would love to see platinum studios do a 'spiritual' successor to it.

[eightySeventh]

I think the closest we'll likely get is MadWorld, unfortunately. I still replay God Hand, though. If they'd included a "New Game+" mode that let you keep all your upgrades and moves from your last game, I don't think I'd ever stop playing the same old levels.

[RichJT87]

I'll get it when I get a Wii along with No More Heroes. Hopefully Bayonetta will do well enough for them to do more on the 360/PS3 in the future. I've read that there's some Platinum/Grasshopper horror game coming sometime. No idea what guise that will take though. As far as I see Killer 7 is a horror game so I want some crazy shit.

[RichJT87]

Also about the 'New Game+' I think every game with any sort or upgrade system should have the option, unless it would bugger up the story.

Sometimes game's are really hard to start again as you get so used to having the abilities you get later in the game.

[jackfordmac]

Its just a game about punching people

[rubbermuck]

and they know it

[choaty5]

would love to see this on xbox live