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    Quantum Theory

    Game » consists of 8 releases. Released Sep 28, 2010

    Take on a living alien tower that shifts and mutates around you, and the hordes of hostile creatures that dwell within, in this infamous Japanese clone of Gears of War.

    Quantum Theory gets no love!

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    #1  Edited By awesomeusername

    Wait!? Quantum  Theory is coming out in 5 days?! Since when!? Guess no ones showing the game any love since I haven't heard one thing about it for how long. It's probably going to be an epic fail. Sad. Who's buying it?..... Better question. Who's heard of it?

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    #2  Edited By Ravenousrattler

    played the demo, it was pretty bad

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    #3  Edited By ESREVER

    A demo came out for it. I heard its pretty terrible.  
    Can't say more than that I'm afraid.

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    #4  Edited By jkz
    @Ravenousrattler said:
    " played the demo, it was pretty bad "
    Watched someone play the demo, saw exactly what I expected, went and made a sandwich.
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    #5  Edited By awesomeusername

    That's what youtube just told me. Haha, this game shall fail.

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    #6  Edited By HitmanAgent47

    Oh shit, I have to update my ps3 again to play the demo. I'm sure the game is terrible, won't get more than 75% gamerankings.

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    #7  Edited By ESREVER
    @awesomeusername said:
    " That's what youtube just told me. Haha, this game shall fail.     
    Not to be a kill-joy, but I honestly don't find games failing to be humorous =/ 
    Sorry.
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    #8  Edited By awesomeusername
    @ESREVER: I mean, when I first saw it, I was interested. Now I'm not. I only laugh because the developers don't do their job... which makes their game fail... which makes me want to slap them.
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    #9  Edited By awesomeusername
    @HitmanAgent47: Update that shit man!
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    #10  Edited By ESREVER
    @awesomeusername: Yea it looked good from the earlier trailers. PS3 owners were looking forward to having a game that had that gears of war style to it. It had some neat ideas behind it, and that whole moving tower level was nifty.  
    Unfortunately, the execution was poor. Its sad to see that happen to any game.
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    #11  Edited By Bogitt

    I played the demo and found it pretty dull and boring, it's a shame.

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    #12  Edited By awesomeusername
    @ESREVER: I know. So much potential for nothing.(Sighs) I can't wait for one thing about this game though.... It's reviews!!!
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    #13  Edited By HitmanAgent47
    @awesomeusername: My ps3 is updated now, it said I get like 3d capabilities for blu ray, yet I can't find the option anywhere. I guess I better stop watching blu ray and start to download the demo.
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    #14  Edited By Yummylee

    It doesn't deserve my love.

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    #15  Edited By awesomeusername
    @HitmanAgent47: YES! Tell me of this horrible game of which we speak! 
    @Abyssfull: Hahaha. Does Kane & Lynch deserve it? I mean, your picture shows Kane. (I think) 
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    #16  Edited By Yummylee
    @awesomeusername said:
    " @HitmanAgent47: YES! Tell me of this horrible game of which we speak! 
    @Abyssfull: Hahaha. Does Kane & Lynch deserve it? I mean, your picture shows Kane. (I think)  "
    It's his better half, Lynch. And I'd say so. I did enjoy Kane and Lynch 2, afterall whilst Quantum Theory just isn't doing too much for me. Is a shame because I was excited for it. It's a Gears clone but a well done Gears clone could still be freakin' kickass.
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    #17  Edited By awesomeusername
    @Abyssfull: Eh, okay & I agree. If a game wants to copy Gears, at least make it awesome!
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    #18  Edited By yoctoyotta

    I wasn't too impressed with the demo. The textures looked kinda glossed over in a plastic-sense, and the environment feels empty. Gameplay-wise, the enemies' ability to take cover is neat, but the aiming doesn't feel good, at least for my tastes. The second part of the demo with the AI co-op totally turned me off after being presented with too many instruction screens. I don't know, maybe that mechanic is fun once you learn it, but the game had too many bad marks against it for me to deal with that shit.

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    #19  Edited By awesomeusername
    @YoctoYotta: HAHAHA! Looks like you don't like it much. Lol. I wonder which game will be the worst this year? 
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    #20  Edited By HitmanAgent47
    @awesomeusername: Okay I finally played it. Ps3 was giving me artifacts, it was just my hdmi cable which I repaired. Anyways, the main character sounds like marcus pheonix. However I get the idea that's how japanese ppl might percieve gears of war. They totally got it wrong because the levels are a total corridor, the polygons unlike the great normal mapping in gears of war, this game looks like it has ps2 polygons. The combat isn't particularly great, it's like kane and lynch quality, however the game is still very playable. I think, it would get like 79% on gamerankings, not any higher. The co-op with another female character is lame, you just throw her in the demo and she never goes where you want her to except you just threw her at a bunch of enemies which she can at least distract. The boss was lame, overall I say skip it.
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    #21  Edited By awesomeusername
    @HitmanAgent47: Worst GOTY Award goes to!..... Kane and Lynch or Quantum Theory? Who shall win?!? Wait to find out!
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    The Vanquish demo was a way better Japanese take on the third person shooter.
    Though there was something oddly compelling about the fiction of Quantum Theory. It seemed so deliciously nonsensical.

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    @awesomeusername said:
    " @HitmanAgent47: Worst GOTY Award goes to!..... Kane and Lynch or Quantum Theory? Who shall win?!? Wait to find out! "
    I'm gonna have to call Quantum Theory, that demo was terrrrrrrrible. Guess I'll find out for sure next week thanks to GameFly :P
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    #24  Edited By JJWeatherman
    @Ravenousrattler said:
    " played the demo, it was pretty bad "
    Yes. 
     
    Also, this should be in the Quantum Theory forum.
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    #26  Edited By Raymayne

    I had no idea this was even coming out this year :|

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    #27  Edited By wickedsc3

    Yea i didnt like this game at all, definatly not buying and im probably not even going to gamefly it. 
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    #28  Edited By awesomeusername
    @spilledmilkfactory: Well you must tell me all about it once you finish it.( 
    :@JJWeatherman: Have no idea of how to do that.>_<
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    @awesomeusername: yeah, you should probably avoid this game. lol. i made it all the way through kane and lynch, but i couldn't even get through 2 levels of quantum theory, so i know where my "worst game" vote is going. the controls, graphics, and...well, pretty much everything is amateurish and unoriginal.
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    #30  Edited By RsistncE

    Yeah because it's another shit Japanese game trying to rip off successful, and good, western games.

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    #31  Edited By NTM

    I've only played the demo. And it's near terrible.
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    #32  Edited By zyn
    @Ravenousrattler said:
    " played the demo, it was pretty bad "
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    #33  Edited By Raymayne
    @awesomeusername said:
    " @HitmanAgent47: Worst GOTY Award goes to!..... Kane and Lynch or Quantum Theory? Who shall win?!? Wait to find out! "
     
    You're a real douche. Like every single damn post of yours is essentially "LOL they fucked up the game!", I mean...so fucking what? What's so hilarious about it? They're a japanese dev who took some risks and tried to make a game that would appeal to the western market, they clearly have not done a very good job of it but at least they gave it a shot instead of sticking to some tried and tested japanese-style game-mechanics, and from what I've played of it, the game doesn't exactly seem poorly made or awful to play or anything like that, it plays a hell of a lot like Gears of War which certainly isn't a bad thing, it's just that the gameplay, story, graphics, and pretty much everything about it isn't in the same league as Gears, and so it will get no love. I'm not even saying it deserves any love but it's certainly not one of the worst games ever made.
     
    Sometimes when a game fails, I guess it can be funny, say if some real big name studio did something and hyped it up to be the best game ever and insulted their competitors and were constantly boasting about how great their game was gonna be, and then it came out and bombed, I guess I might laugh and say they deserved it. But that isn't the case here, this was Team Tachyon's first real next gen game and they tried to do something a little different than anything they'd worked on before and I'm sure a lot of effort was put into this game, and now people will lose their jobs over it...I just can't see the funny side.
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    #34  Edited By Icadae
    @Raymayne: How did it take risks? In that it's a sub-par clone of a tried and tested western formula? 'Cause I gotta admit, I have a hard time seeing how any risk was taken, except the risk to carry on with the development when the game ends up looking like it does, which mostly reminds me of Unreal Tournament 2004, grapic wise. Maybe it's harsh but the whole thing just seems like it's outdated and trying too hard. It's not hard for Japanese developers to make games that appeal to a Western audience, because any game that is good can carry it's own weight regardless of it being Japanese, Western or even a Rip-off. I mean, look at the countless God of War cloned. Granted they are western by nature, but they themselves stand well on their own, even Heavenly Sword did well inspite of having some (at least what I consider to be) serious control issues. 
     
    Perhaps it is the wrong developer to make a game like this, considering what games they have developed and what consoles they've shipped on. The game has been in "development" for three years, which incidently is the same time the company got started, and delayed 2 times. To be honest, it probably should just have had been scrapped all together to allow the developers more running time and build up capital in form of handheld console releases.
     
    I get what you're saying, and it most certainly isn't the worst game - But it is pretty damn bad, even for a rehash.
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    @awesomeusername said:
    epic fail. "
    Door's that way.
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    #36  Edited By TwoOneFive

    @awesomeusername
    said:

    " @HitmanAgent47: Worst GOTY Award goes to!..... Kane and Lynch or Quantum Theory? Who shall win?!? Wait to find out! "

    kane and lynch wasnt that bad though... 
     
     
    @Rmack said: 

    @awesomeusername said: 

     epic fail. "
    Door's that way. "
    touche  
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    I have to say, the game could have been a last mediocre in my opinion. The graphics are what really killed it for me. Everything was so bland and just seemed to blend in with everything else, the characters, the architecture, the enemies. It was hurtful on the senses.

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    #38  Edited By ryanwho

    Apparently its only okay to copy something popular verbatim when you do it with an already established IP.

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    #39  Edited By Moody_yeti

    it shouldnt get any. 
    so glad i rented this game,as i didnt even finish it because it was so generic and boring. 

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    #40  Edited By DXmagma

    it just looks too....generic. i mean, singularity and darksiders weren't the epitome of originality but they were still high quality games, this one looks a bit...finicky.

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    #41  Edited By HitmanAgent47

    Quantum theory gets no love lost, no love found.

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    #42  Edited By PrivateIronTFU

    I honestly don't care that it's a Gears of War clone, and I don't think anybody else does, either. But the game is just shit, so it deserves to be ridiculed.

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    #43  Edited By Scribbly

    Oh dear, this game tries to ape Gears so badly and fails at almost EVERYTHING... the cover sucks, the weapons all suck, I can't see any reason to play this game than to laugh at how dreadful it is, this doesn't reach the same level of hilarity as, say, Crash Time did. Sorry if I upset any of the clearly numerous fans of the game, hehe.

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    #44  Edited By Belmont_Shadow

    This game is terrible

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    #45  Edited By TEHMAXXORZ

    Wow, a lot of hate for one game, but it deserves it. 
    It's like two final fantasy games had an in-bred, deformed child and then the gears of war games did the same thing. 
    Then one night these two in-breds get drunk and make the biggest mistake. They make Quantum Theory.  
    Let this be a warning to any future developers.

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    #46  Edited By Lind_L_Taylor
    @TEHMAXXORZ said:
    Wow, a lot of hate for one game, but it deserves it. It's like two final fantasy games had an in-bred, deformed child and then the gears of war games did the same thing. Then one night these two in-breds get drunk and make the biggest mistake. They make Quantum Theory.  Let this be a warning to any future developers.
    $15 on Amazon.  Worth it?
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    #47  Edited By Kera_Reaver

    @Lind_L_Taylor: No! Stay away from it, seriously!

    I'm playing it right now and the only reason I keep doing so, is because I like to finish my games, once I start them... but I really, really do regret having bought something this terrible.

    You know, when a game comes out and it gets many low scores in the reviews, I like to check it by myself, because I usually disagree with them.

    Well, Quantum Theory is an exception, and a huge one: it has no redeeming qualities. It's a true nightmare.

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    #48  Edited By Lind_L_Taylor
    @Kera_Reaver said:

    @Lind_L_Taylor: No! Stay away from it, seriously!

    I'm playing it right now and the only reason I keep doing so, is because I like to finish my games, once I start them... but I really, really do regret having bought something this terrible.

    You know, when a game comes out and it gets many low scores in the reviews, I like to check it by myself, because I usually disagree with them.

    Well, Quantum Theory is an exception, and a huge one: it has no redeeming qualities. It's a true nightmare.


    LOL.  I still haven't bought it.  Perhaps if I can get it under $5.  
    Were you able to finish the game?   There's a lot of terrible
    games out there that might need a tidbit of love every now
    & then. :)

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