Why Angry Joe's MvC3 review sucks

The biggest problem with Joe is that when he reviews games outside the mainstream shooter market he doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about. And this review is no exception. Now I am not going to disagree with him about Capcom being money hungry or the lack of modes he complained about, he has the right to his opinion on that. My problem is that he doesn't even talk about the FIGHTING in a FIGHTING game. I'm dead serious, he spends so much time talking about the modes that I forgot what he even said about the gameplay, so I watched it again to try and get what he said, and here is what I found.

The first part is this howler:

"I am not doing to be able to tell you all of the technicals, which characters have the unlimited unbreakable combos, and which ones need balancing"

In other words your not going to tell us a fucking thing about the gameplay. At least I can't say I wasn't warned. At 0:53 he says this

“The pure fighting in MVC is exactly what we demanded”

Ok cool, what do you have to say about it:

"The animations are so buttery smooth......"

He goes on like this. From 1:00 onwards he goes on a little tangent about it looking nice. That isn't gameplay Joe, no wonder Asalieri thinks your a retard.

After a long bitching session about the modes, he finally says something about the ganeplay at 4:52, after almost 3 minutes:

“Fighting is excellent, it's a lot more offensive based than SF4, less of a chess match”

Surely he fucking realises that anyone can come to that conclusion by watching some gameplay footage. Even a casual fan knows that the MvC games are more offensive. And after that sentence, he bitches about modes again. So after 5 minutes, he has said only THREE FUCKING SENTENCES ABOUT THE FIGHTING. Maybe he will talk about it later......oh who am I kidding.

At 7:33, he talks about simple mode:

“It introduces simple Mode and it also simplifies the punches and kicks down to low, medium and high attacks with a special move button”

And does he explain if it is good or not? Of course not, he only complains that when playing online he bumped into too many people who kicked his ass while using it and that they should have a way to filter it. While that point is fair enough, he barely talks about it rather than stating what it is. No opinion on it Joe? No surprises here.

At 8:15 (HOLY SHIT, HE DIDN'T RAMBLE FOR TOO LONG) he talks about the control changes:

"and with these new buttons, MvC is now TvC. For the first time in this franchise they change everything”

The only reason he says this is bad is with his long winded analogy that everything you learned from other Street Fighter games is "invalid" and that you have to learn how to play it again. Weird since I played it a bit at a JB HiFi and it felt like your standard Capcom fighter to me. Then he rambles about a lack of a classic mode. So you know what, I won't count that to him talking about gameplay, since he bitched about it being the only option rather that it being bad.

At 11:08 (lol, here I was thinking he was going to change) he says this after giving it a 6/10:

“The fighting is great, your going to have a ton of fun when your doing it”

WHY IS IT GREAT??? The closest we have gotten to an explanation is that the fighting is more offensive and faster than SF4 (and when you explained it, it sounded like you were stating is was different and didn't say why it made it good) and that the animations are pretty at the beginning of the review. THIS is why I think this review is absolute shit, in fact I am going to time myself saying everything about the gameplay right now......

35 SECONDS???? The revIew goes for 12:53 seconds, and he spends 35 FUCKING SECONDS ON THE GAMEPLAY the most important part of a fighting game. My issue with this review is not with the fact that he complains about the modes, that is perfectly acceptable and I have no issues with that, in fact many people have said that about the game. And he could have spent MOST of the time talking about these issues, but he has to at LEAST talk about the gameplay and describe it more than he did, especially since his review is meant to be for "more casual players". The fact that he spends a mere 35 SECONDS talking about the gameplay makes it look like he didn't play the game other than his match with Doug. In fact let's look at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_vs._Capcom_3:_Fate_of_Two_Worlds

EVERYTHING he said about the gameplay can be found here and more. The only thing he couldn't get from Wikipedia and watching a youtube video of the gameplay was the online issues he had. That is downright pathetic of him and why his review is just shit.