PlayStation 3

Rogue Warrior

...but it's fun. Of all of the problems and shortcomings with Rogue Warrior, it's a blast. The campaign was seven hours well spent, and while I don't have an interest in replaying it anytime soon, I had a great time. Sometimes you just want a straight-forward action game, and this definitely fulfilled that need. With the campaign behind me, I decided to check out the multiplayer which includes Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch modes. The online community for this game is very small, and one night I couldn't even get a Team Deathmatch game going because eight people couldn't get together. What multiplayer I was able to play was alright, but not something that was interesting enough to keep me coming back for more.

Rogue Warrior es un título que no ha sabido estar a la altura del largo proceso de desarrollo que lleva a sus espaldas. El argumento podría haber dado lugar a un título con una jugabilidad más variada y depurada –aunque ofrece algunos elementos de infiltración que son de agradecer-, pero la obra de Rebellion Studios se ve perjudicada por la escasísima duración del título, algo inaceptable hoy en día dado el alto precio al que se venden los juegos. Esta duración es la misma vida del juego, pues el multijugador no incentiva a ser usado más que para convencernos de que estamos perdiendo el tiempo –si es que conseguimos entrar en una partida-. El apartado técnico cumple dado el nivel del resto de apartados de un título que está condenado a pasar desapercibido por méritos propios. Marcinko, la misión ha fracasado.

Multiplayer modes, at least as this review is being written, are hard to judge, simply because the game requires you to actually have at least four people in a match. You can’t play with bots, and it seems real people know better than to buy this heap. Online leaderboards where the highest scoring individual had achieved TWO wins four days after release pointed to some troubling times. Even if you’re a tremendous fan of Marcinko and love his books, rent this one before you spend your hard-earned cash. The season is too full of top-notch games and excellent DLC for you to spend your cash on this stinker.

You have to wonder how something like this makes its way onto shelves as a full-priced product. Though there's some sort of ironic fun to be had by cruising through the short campaign and listening to Mickey Rourke shout obscenities, it's practically impossible to wring $60 of excitement out of this disc. If you're the ironic type that loves dumb games, you'll have a few laughs at Rogue Warrior's expense, but even compared to ironic favorites like 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, Rogue Warrior comes up short.

With lackluster multiplayer offerings and one of the shortest singleplayer campaigns in recent memory, Rogue Warrior is a smudge on Bethesda’s otherwise stellar record. In a holiday season littered with AAA titles it’s not worth paying attention to. Hell, if it were the only game released in 2009 it still wouldn’t be worth playing. The very fact that there's an attempt to charge $60 is insulting. Save your money, spend it on anything else, and forget Rogue Warrior ever existed.

Le développement des jeux a évolué à un tel point qu'il est particulièrement rare qu'un titre PS3 ou Xbox 360 soit vraiment pire que médiocre, mais Rogue Warrior est haut la main le plus mauvais jeu auquel j'ai joué sur l'une ou l'autre plate-forme depuis très très longtemps. On pourrait dire que c'est un jeu bon marché, une merde destinée à faire du fric, mais il n'est en fait pas si bon marché que cela et le côté « faire du fric » semble son meilleur argument. Par contre, à la question : est-ce une merde ? La réponse est sans équivoque : absolument.