@ascagnel: Pretty sure it isn't wide open world, when you drive around the other cars are AI drivers I think. I don't think they are real gamers, but I could be wrong.
Psygnosis made some amazing games back in the day and this is a brutal loss so near to the recent closure of Bizarre Creations. It's sad to see such creative and talented minds thrown aside.
I've had no fun trying to play this game online at all. I've encountered some stupid games where it's the same map game after game, or thoroughly imbalanced teams, etc. the kind of stuff you might expect. Presumably searching for Dice will find EA servers?
If you wan Giant Bomb to keep existing as it always has--and get even bigger and better, then yes it's worth it. If you don't care about GB and wouldn't be sad to see it down sized, rolled into GS, or shut down, then no, it's not worth it.
But it isn't as it always has been. The situation changed last week. I cancelled my membership a few months back and neither mine nor the memberships of others have stopped the big CBS behemoth coming in so how can you claim that a membership would stop it being downsized or rolled into Gamespot. I happen to think that at some stage down the road CBS will ask themselves why they have two gaming websites and it will happen anyway.
Where do the subscriptions go now? Straight to CBS? And why was Tested able to stay independent but not Giant Bomb? There's something not quite right about this arrangement given that Giant Bomb is surely in the better position to stand on its own two feet. And like I said yesterday, at some stage CBS will consolidate their gaming websites because they'll figure that they don't need two of them. And they'll swallow up everything Giant Bomb in to a "wonderful, big new... Gamespot".
As somebody else said, Tested appears to have the better deal here by far. If they can stand on their own two feet, relatively speaking, it's tough to see how Giant Bomb can't. If anything, there's a natural overlap between tech and gaming.
Things will be fine to start with, what else would you expect. It's further down the road that I'd be concerned about. At some stage CBS might ask themselves why they have two gaming sites.
Everything starts out fine. But six months down the road, CBS will ask themselves "why do we have two videogame sites?" - and it's at that point they start making changes. I used to love their Gamespot stuff back in the day but things have moved on so much it's tough to go back. Gamespot, I don't even visit that site anymore.
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