I'm just frustrated because so many of the reviews I read and listened to were painfully biased. The one at GameTrailers was especially so.

Watch the review and see how many times you can add onto any criticism the phrase "...just like GoW." The even take a jab at the way you get health and open doors with a QTE and say that even though GoW did this, they should've learned better. In a month GoW III will have the same BS QTEs for opening doors and chests, and nobody's gonna dock its review score for doing so even though it, like DI could've learned from past mistakes.

I don't care if the games isn't even trying to set itself apart. Like I said, how many RPGs or shooters try to set themselves apart? Exactly what did MW2 do to set itself apart from the genre? Yet it won dozens of GOTY awards.

Just because the game is obviously and shamelessly more similar, are you really giving a free pass to every other game that "rips off" its predecessors just because they slightly alter a mechanic in an effort to not be so blatant? I just don't give a crap about that silly pandering.

If the game is good, it's good on its own merits. I've played dozens of games that are absolute rip offs of other games. When they do it poorly I'm fine giving them crap, but when they do the same thing in their own way to a high degree of polish I don't care who they ripped off. If the game is good, it's good.