Sentences with phrase «lackluster titles»

Overall, this isn't too exciting of a release, and gamers have largely expressed their disappointment with the lackluster titles.

During those same years Ninja Gaiden took some missteps, resulting in a couple of lackluster titles.

The battle racing genre has been over saturated with lackluster titles lately.

As the WSJ article notes, there is debate about whether the decline in sales / profits for the traditional publishers is because of the increase in e-book prices under the new contracts or because of a crop of lackluster titles.

Theme song: A bizarre mix of torch song, soaring ballad and coffeehouse improvisation, the lackluster title tune by Sheryl Crow immediately dies, and not tomorrow either.

Once you've beaten the singleplayer, if you can endure it, there's not much to draw you back to this lackluster title.

You're better off picking up Trackmania or Blur for some fun racing action rather than wasting your hard - earned cash on this lackluster title.

Skullgirls features an excessive amount of sex and violence, which sometime is compensation for a lackluster title, but the game is surprisingly enjoyable.

Sometimes the best job offer really is the best... and sometimes an opportunity is hiding behind a lackluster title or brand name.

So, if you haven't improved it, your headline may be a lackluster title like this:

Not exact matches

That is a silly way to look at things — just like the win over Houston in the Conference USA title game shouldn't be used as the sole reason for hiring somebody, a lackluster bowl performance shouldn't be used as means for questioning the hire — but that tends to be how people react.

His final competition was lackluster, too: Collin Klein, who was the effective leader of an effective Kansas State team, lost his inside track at the Troy Smith Memorial Vote for being the public face of an undefeated title contender, and Manti Te'o had to overcome decades of bias against defenders... and tackle totals that dropped in his senior season as the defense around him made it easier for him to do his job and easier for Notre Dame to win.

Even with a fairly lackluster lineup of launch titles, it's clear that Kinect's abilities open up the Xbox 360 to so many new things.

But a lackluster Tom Clancy title (Ghost Recon: Wildlands) and uninspired boardgame adaptations (Uno, Monopoly) kept Ubisoft in the middle of the pack despite the overall improvement.

The five - year - old indie distributor targeted mainly VOD audiences with its lackluster 2014 slate, which included only one critic - approved title: Paraguayan thriller 7 Boxes.

There's no denying that 2017 has been a great year for video games, with no shortage of success for Microsoft, including the release of the Xbox One X. Despite a lackluster lineup of games when the powerful console launched in October, next year is set to deliver some heavy hitting titles.

In recent days, numerous critics and film industry folk complained that this has been a lackluster Cannes for high - profile titles.

Perhaps partly due to the Wii U's overall lackluster sales, and partly due to Nintendo fans (astoundingly) being disappointed at the game's initial reveal, instead wishing for a new Metroid title from Retro Studios (because apparently one DKC from Retro was enough, but three Metroids weren't???).

The first installment was released during a time when the market was plagued with scores of hideous titles that would burn my retinas with their lackluster visuals.

As the title would suggest, the graphics are somewhat lackluster by design, and the use of the touch screen for the majority of events feels a tad forced and unintuitive.

There is really only one full - on production number, picturized to the title song, which is actually the lone memorable tune in a most uncharacteristically lackluster collection of songs from the composing triumvirate of Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy; even so, with the film's run time uncomfortably stretched to over two and a half hours, it could have used more musical bits to keep the energy from flagging.

After their golden age oxidized as the new millennium rolled on, the heralded developer entered a state of abeyance, fashioning lackluster sequels, putting together fad - grabbing Kinect titles, and working behind the scenes on other Microsoft projects.

Cavill makes an alarmingly undersized impression in the title role, but Goyer's adaptation of the character is so lackluster that it would be wrong to judge Cavill's ability to carry a film on this performance alone.

Moviemaking this lackluster should have been changed to the more appropriate title, «Snow Bored».

When you buy a ticket to see a movie titled Alien vs. Predator, you're dropping that money to see two horror icons fight rather than watch a group of boring characters talk, and AvP no doubt suffers from a setup that can best be described as lackluster.

Whether it was the Biblical title, the Iraq motif, or just Warner Independent not wanting to risk putting it in more theaters, the lackluster attendance in America is surprising.

The drop in sales could be partly due to a crop of lackluster new titles.

The title released in 2007 sadly to mixed reviews, and lackluster sales.

Perhaps this is simply another case of a Suda 51 title not clicking with me, but I found the story to be a mess, the characters flat and the writing generally lackluster.

There are many things that I'm willing to forgive when it comes to indie titles: poor graphics, questionable voice acting, lackluster audio and even, depending on the case, iffy writing.

They could flood the Virtual Console with excellent NES and SNES titles, but they seem content to push out their lackluster back catalog one or two painful games at a time while ignoring games like Link to the Past, Yoshi's Island, Starfox, Mario 3 and Mario RPG.

Mighty No. 9 is not just a poor title but honestly it is a lackluster experience that should not be this bad by a mile.

The lackluster execution could be partially forgiven if Fairytale Fights were an Xbox Live Arcade title.

The internet suffered a meltdown once the review embargo over the ill - fated title was lifted and there were even cries of a mass global conspiracy against all things PlayStation in the media, as if the lackluster nature of the game was not abundantly clear to others.

As the title would suggest, the graphics are somewhat lackluster by design, and the use of the touch screen for the majority of events feels a tad forced and unintuitive.

The Final Fantasy series has been rather lackluster as of late, with the FF13 trilogy proving to be something of a mixed bag and various spin - off titles aimed primarily at niches other than the traditional JRPG fan.

Three hours with the console leaves me with the impression that it's got buckets of potential, but the launch titles are a little lackluster.

The only things holding this title back are a lackluster soundtrack and an overall lack of depth to the game.

Nor does it stand up very well as its own game: the handling is okay but the graphics are lackluster, the content minimal and the options one expects in a PC title nonexistent.

There's another title that went under the radar after a lackluster trailer is Wardevil.

This tough - to - adapt structure might be why many of their games have grown stale - yes, Splatoon was awesome, and so was Mario Maker, but Mario Kart was a great version of just the same old game, Mario Party 10 was off its freaking rocker, the second - party titles were really lackluster outside of Bayonetta 2 - the new Mario Tennis, for instance, or the fact that we never even got a Mario Golf.

The other titles that have come out in that vein have been a bit lackluster.

Most of the creases have been ironed out and the new weather update makes the game undeniably gorgeous but Driveclub continues to suffer from problems such as lackluster A.I and a deficit in content and we had far greater hopes for the title when it was first revealed.

After their golden age oxidized as the new millennium rolled on, the heralded developer entered a state of abeyance, fashioning lackluster sequels, putting together fad - grabbing Kinect titles, and working behind the scenes on other Microsoft projects.

Truth be told, most launches are lackluster, with only a few scattered titles shining through.

There's no denying that 2017 has been a great year for video games, with no shortage of success for Microsoft, including the release of the Xbox One X. Despite a lackluster lineup of games when the powerful console launched in October, next year is set to deliver some heavy hitting titles.

While the core of the gameplay stands fairly well as a whole, the lack of an abundant set of gameplay modes for single players, a very poor tutorial, and a lackluster story mode hamper the overall experience; however, the multiplayer portion of the game helps get this title back on its feet and running again.

Anyone familiar with Suda's previous action games should feel right at home here, and when I say that I mean the combat is lackluster but competent just like his other titles.

If nothing else, I heard the title's customization is deep enough to keep gamers occupied during an otherwise lackluster week.

The developer that once brought us imaginative characters like Diddy Kong, Joanna Dark, and Banjo as well as innovative uses of technology has instead been reduced to cranking out lackluster Kinect titles and other material that the core Xbox 360 audience hasn't really seemed to have requested.