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So when is EA going to do what they did with Fight Night Champion? As in drop in onto PSN and sell it in $5 increments. Because five bucks is about the total worth of this pile of scrap. BlackBox really dropped the ball on this one. A mere 2 hours will see you through the campaign, and that includes weirdly implemented QTE scenes. And after that, meh. Just meh. If you buy racing games you obviously like cars. My advice is to get into yours, drive to GameStop and trade in this junker. Or throw it at the cashier and run. Run! Who needs QTE's.

For Christ's sake I wish people who worked on these games would just STOP! writing bogus user reviews on metacritic. Four 10's? LMFAO OK I know you're proud and all, but like every preppy parent in Park Slope, Brooklyn, you did NOT just give birth to the greatest thing EVER!! There is absolutely NOTHING in this game that warrants a 10/10. It is cluttered, messy, and a little bit broken. At best it's a 5/10, 6.5 with a patch. But for the sake of balancing out the "pro-trolls"' Zack gets a ZERO. Ha. Pro- trolls....

In this day and age of frenetic, adrenalized gunplay, twisting and weaving plot-lines, overwrought character development and a bombardment of on-screen displays, hints and information, LIMBO is truly a breath of fresh air. Or rather, a thick, deeply atmospheric dream-like fog. With no on-screen HUD, no prompts, no introductory cut-scenes and no real idea who this little boy is or why he has just woken up in this eerily beautiful black and white world, we are given no choices but to progress and explore what lies ahead of us, and for him. It is a magic, yet slightly disturbing feeling, akin to the confusion one senses for those first brief moments after awaking from a particularly vivid and surreal dream of ones own. Death is a part of life, and you'll witness death first hand many times as you traverse the world of LIMBO. The deaths are quick, yet quite brutal to witness, and even though there is no significant penalty to dying, you realize after only a few minutes that the boy is indeed very fragile. So your movements become cautious, you want to study the seemingly insignificant ground before you step forth. Animations are smooth as silk. As for the sound, if you don't have a surround sound set-up, I recommend headphones, as it can be vital to anticipate what lies ahead via subtle audio cues. If you are playing through tv speakers, I guarantee you after 10 minutes you'll catch yourself leaning ever towards the screen- not because of poor audio. Rather, the immersion will pull you in. Rarely have I experienced such a game. LIMBO deserves to be recognized as true art. Without the use of quotation marks. 10/10. The sense of loneliness and despair is very real.