this is the intro for my next review. is it too long. coould it be rephrased in another way. your input is appreciated. thanks.
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Several years ago, I had complained rather incessantly about three things that were going wrong with the gaming industry. One was its reliance on making too many sequels and not enough original releases. Two, its obsession with mimicking the movie industry, thus ballooning production costs. Games are now $60 because of this. Three -- its emphasize over HD graphics instead of refined gameplay. This was the direction next-gen games were going and better technology exacerbated the dilemma even further.

As a result, promising titles like Assassin's Creed were marred by uninspired, half-assed ideas and quality assurance issues. It was supposed to help usher in a new era of next-gen action games, but the storytelling was shoddy, the combat was stiff, and it had game-freezing bugs aplenty. Ubisoft's Prince of Persia trilogy fared much better, yet those were last-gen games. So what good original action games are there for next-gen consoles to call their own? Well, there is Crackdown, Dead Rising or perhaps maybe Heavenly Sword. You could count the number on one hand.