Rotten to the Qore

I’ve bought the first Qore on Friday and I have to say... it’s rotten. Yes, I know I was excited about the whole thing just a few days ago when I wrote the news about it, but after trying it out I can say it’s pretty much a six-dollar worth of failure.
First off, it weights over 1,5 GB, which in my case is a lot since I have a 1mbit internet connection, which means if I haven’t eaten during the download I would die from malnutrition. But I thought it will all be in glorious HD so I can wait. Well, it may be HD, but it’s so compressed it looks like a movie about diarrhea in high resolution.

When you “turn it on” you are greeted with a long Hulk 2 trailer. The movie is a waste of money; the trailer is a waste of space. Thank God it’s skippable.
After that you’ll get an introduction by Veronica Belmont. I’m probably supposed to know who she is, but I don’t. Sure, the girl is cute, but she acts as if she’s being subjected to electric current – she is way too euphoric. It’s fake, unnecessary and I don’t like it. Let’s move on.
In the main menu you can choose from a few different sections – a SOCOM one, Soul Calibur 4/Afro Samurai one, Force Unleashed one and the last one is where the downloadable goodies are, or rather suppose to be.

Let me start from the last one. There are supposed to be a SOCOM beta invitation, a SOCOM theme for the XMB and a link to download Calling All Cars. The PSN game is available for people who got the annual subscription of Qore, so I won’t comment as I didn’t get one (thank God). And the SOCOM stuff? Well, I’m sorry, but it will be available, when it’s available… which could mean tomorrow or in 500 years. What could be the reason to put something in this “digital magazine” that doesn’t exist and make it the biggest selling point? No idea, but I bet there are a lot of pissed off people out there now.

The Force Unleashed and the SC4/AS section include interviews and some in-game footage. It’s so meaningless I wanted to poke my eyes out with a fork. You basically have guys who claim that “their games will be so cool, because they are cool, and cool people make them and stuff”. For an exclusive content, you really can’t do shit Sony.
I liked the guy from Namco talking about Darth Vader in SC4. What he said is that he’s really excited about that character, because he’s so cool and he has cool moves, and the game he’s in is cool, and it’s cool that it’s cool, because it’s so cool. Seriously?

The guy from Lucas Arts was not much better. He did mention though, that the planets his game will take place on make a lot of sense and they are cool. Well, if he said so it must be true.

The SOCOM section features some pictures and not only the mindless babbling, but there’s even more of Belmond, so I’m not so sure about it.

And then there are the ads. I thought I wouldn’t mind them so much, but they are annoying as hell.

So to sum things up - you get a lot of pointless crap for $3 with commercials in between. I know 3 bucks is not a lot, but in case of Qore it’s still too much.
It’s like paying for sex with an ugly hooker just to find out she’s actually a man.