Reviewers “didn’t get a massage.”
The lead designer of Blacklight: Tango Down has hit back at critics of the downloadable multiplayer FPS on the eve of the game’s belated PlayStation Network release.
The game divided reviewers when it landed on PC and Xbox Live Arcade earlier this year. Eurogamer’s Dan Whitehead was less than impressed, awarding it a meagre 5/10, though more favourable write-ups helped it to a Metacritic average of 61.
“I think a lot of reviewers treated it like it was a $60 game,” explains Zombie Games’ project lead Jared Gerritzen. “We got a lot of rave reviews from people that treated like it was a DLC game.”