OXM Review of BoP: 8/10

[mar01006765]

Official Xbox Magazine gives BoP 8/10

http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/sim/il2birdsofprey/review.html?tag=tabs;reviews

is this old news? if so just lock / delete

[Tomo]

Interesting. I was expecting it to score higher. Having said that i don't care what some idiot thinks of the game. It's our own opinion that counts. Add to the fact that all the major review site are now compromised these days by dodgy deals and kickbacks.

Wouldn't suprise me if the publishers of Heroes Over Europe paid the big sites to review BoP poorly.

[dandymountfarto]

it got 8/10. why is that poor?

[mar01006765]

this is from the OXM site:

Review Scores Explained

8.0 or 8.5: Great

A great game and an A-list title, but either it either has niche appeal, suffers from minor technical or design issues, or has peripheral problems like a crummy interface.

[Moog]

Wouldn't suprise me if the publishers of Heroes Over Europe paid the big sites to review BoP poorly.

Right, the HOE got 5/10 in the same issue. Why wouldn't they pay for their own higher score instead of sinking the Birds of Prey? :grin:

[mar01006765]

lol

5.0 or 5.5: Mediocre

Very unspecial and average in the worst sense of that word. You can’t pound it for being terrible, but it’s hard to find something to recommend it for.

[Tomo]

Okay cool, sounds like 8 us a very respectable score then.

Sorry, haven't bothered reading reviews since OXM were going through their phase of handing out 9 & 10's like candy.

The opinions i value the most are those of other people posting here. Based on peoples' impressions of the demo i think this will be a spectacular game. (I personally haven't played the demo as i don't have XBL).

[King Jareth]

Considering its more of a niche title my first thought was "cool an 8".


Official Xbox Magazine

While IL-2 doesn't quite manage to be the awesomest air combat game of all time, it comes temptingly close. [October 2009, p.68]

[mar01006765]

Here's one readers take on the OXM review over at SimHQ forum:

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2848126/Official_XBox_Magazine_Reviews.html

[FOZ_1983]

8/10 isnt bad....


isnt bad at all!!!


actually better than i thought it would be. Regardless of how good the game is, they usually get fairly poor scores because this genre doesnt appeal to game reviewers (or the ones who seem to do the reviews for flynig games).

Im happy with 8/10, and look forward to next friday when i can fly around in the mighty hawker hurricane and shoot down some HE111's over dover.

[haitch40]

8/10 isnt bad....


isnt bad at all!!!


actually better than i thought it would be. Regardless of how good the game is, they usually get fairly poor scores because this genre doesnt appeal to game reviewers (or the ones who seem to do the reviews for flynig games).

Im happy with 8/10, and look forward to next friday when i can fly around in the mighty hawker hurricane and shoot down some HE111's over dover.

im not I HAVE NO MONEY to buy it till october :(

[FOZ_1983]

Can you not trade anything in?

sell your body?

do something. :-P

[haitch40]

Can you not trade anything in?

sell your body?

do something. :-P

well i dont have much that i dont want
selling myself sounds fun

[FOZ_1983]

well i dont have much that i dont want
selling myself sounds fun



problem solved ;-)


haha!

[dandymountfarto]

going back to that review quote - is "awesomest" actually a word?! lol.

find it hard to believe that they reckon BoP isnt the best air combat game - what is? im sure even the arcade mode is better than most others' in their entirety.

edit: i take that back actually. it said "of all time", so i would have to agree with that statement. my bad for not reading it properly :oops:

[FOZ_1983]

going back to that review quote - is "awesomest" actually a word?! lol.

find it hard to believe that they reckon BoP isnt the best air combat game - what is? im sure even the arcade mode is better than most others' in their entirety.

edit: i take that back actually. it said "of all time", so i would have to agree with that statement. my bad for not reading it properly :oops:



Not sure whcih flying game would take the title for me...


im pretty sure though it would go to EAW (European Air War) on the pc... that game was epic

[King Jareth]

going back to that review quote - is "awesomest" actually a word?! lol.


That is the quote that's on Meta, sounds like OXM to me (I did go back and check though, I can only get on metacritic through the web-proxying powers of google translator).

[dennis580]

Interesting. I was expecting it to score higher.

Because your a blind fanboy. 8/10 is a great score.

Having said that i don't care what some idiot thinks of the game.

Yea and the real idiots are people like you who make totally stupid fanboy posts like these

It's our own opinion that counts.

Who is our, and no your opinion does NOT count more then reviewers as nobody cares about blind, and ignorant fanboys like you. Reviews are for people like me who are not sure about getting the game

Add to the fact that all the major review site are now compromised these days by dodgy deals and kickbacks.

Not on niche games they don't. The only time that happens is on real big games. Niche games like WWII Flight Sims had neither the budget nor the desire to bribe reviewers.

Wouldn't suprise me if the publishers of Heroes Over Europe paid the big sites to review BoP poorly.

No we come to the dumbest, and most ignorant statements I have ever seen. At first I thought you might have been getting paid by the publisher to say this stuff, but this last part is so ignorant, and so stupid that nobody would pay you.

First of all these are 3 very niche games nobody bribes reviewers for niche games. Second of all I have never of any publisher paying a mag to give a bad review score to another game. That is just flat out stupid. Third of all the game got a 8/10. So your trying to say that Ubisoft payed them to give their competitor a 8/10. Do you realise how stupid, and ignorant you sound. You are one of the worst fanboys i have ever seen.

[dennis580]

Okay cool, sounds like 8 us a very respectable score then.

Sorry, haven't bothered reading reviews since OXM were going through their phase of handing out 9 & 10's like candy.

The opinions i value the most are those of other people posting here. Based on peoples' impressions of the demo i think this will be a spectacular game. (I personally haven't played the demo as i don't have XBL).


A little too late for that. You have already made a complete, and total jacka$$ out of yourself.

[sasquatch]

A little too late for that. You have already made a complete, and total jacka$$ out of yourself.

Dude, who peed in your Wheaties? I feel like I should mention something about a pot and a kettle.

[Buggins]

Interesting. I was expecting it to score higher.

Because your a blind fanboy. 8/10 is a great score.

Having said that i don't care what some idiot thinks of the game.

Yea and the real idiots are people like you who make totally stupid fanboy posts like these

It's our own opinion that counts.

Who is our, and no your opinion does NOT count more then reviewers as nobody cares about blind, and ignorant fanboys like you. Reviews are for people like me who are not sure about getting the game

Add to the fact that all the major review site are now compromised these days by dodgy deals and kickbacks.

Not on niche games they don't. The only time that happens is on real big games. Niche games like WWII Flight Sims had neither the budget nor the desire to bribe reviewers.

Wouldn't suprise me if the publishers of Heroes Over Europe paid the big sites to review BoP poorly.

No we come to the dumbest, and most ignorant statements I have ever seen. At first I thought you might have been getting paid by the publisher to say this stuff, but this last part is so ignorant, and so stupid that nobody would pay you.

First of all these are 3 very niche games nobody bribes reviewers for niche games. Second of all I have never of any publisher paying a mag to give a bad review score to another game. That is just flat out stupid. Third of all the game got a 8/10. So your trying to say that Ubisoft payed them to give their competitor a 8/10. Do you realise how stupid, and ignorant you sound. You are one of the worst fanboys i have ever seen.

You're such a tosser Dennis.

[dennis580]

Hoping for 9/10's to wake the masses (for sales to 1C)

Not going ot happen. So far the game has got a 3.5/5, and a 8/10. Anybody expecting this game to average anywhere close to 90% is simply in fantasy land.

It will average either in the low 80's or high 70's on Gamerankings.

[Tomo]

A little too late for that. You have already made a complete, and total jacka$$ out of yourself.

Hey mate, i'm not particularly concerned with what you think. Life's too short.

But for the sake of human kind, i really hope you get some medical attention soon. You come across as very unbalanced and quite disturbed. Probably the result of being called Dennis. That is a really lame name.

Good luck with everything though.

[juz1]

A little too late for that. You have already made a complete, and total jacka$$ out of yourself.


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[mar01006765]

this thread was going so nicely until dennis went on a mad one.
http://www.motifake.com/demotivational-poster/0805/the-forum-trolls-demotivational-poster-1210635423.jpg

[fuzzychickens]

Sorry but i just can make any s**t out of this. I mean ...



WHAT freaking HUD/Labels??? Isn't it true that on SIM you don't have any labels and thus and VERY clean hud??? Or am i playing another game/demo??

Anyway 8/10 is a good score. Hoping for 9/10's to wake the masses (for sales to 1C)

Exactly what I was thinking - play it in sim mode if you don't want the damn icons!

Anyways, decent score, hope this game is supported with extra content/features in the future.

[Kartman013]

8 out of 10 is a good score considering...:grin:

[dandymountfarto]

reviews are all subjective anyway. im sure there are people who have gotten enjoyment out even the most hated, low scoring games ever.

im almost inclined to agree with you about EAW, Foz. it was a mighty game at the time and still going strong with the mod community. have you seen what they have been able to achieve? i love all those old microprose sims - top notch. think that BoB2:Wings of Victory is my all time fave though. so immersive, its a beautiful game.

thats just my opinion though. which is sorta my point. lol.

[mr71mb0]

Exactly what I was thinking - play it in sim mode if you don't want the damn icons!

future.


Even in wuss (arcade) mode you can hide most of them through the options (hud from full to minmal).

I really did think it was way over cluttered through with all the yellow pointers. Have a red one to your current target by all means, but we don't need an arrow pointing to all of the enemy aircraft at once surely?

Also, is there any way of turning off all that annoying enemy radio chatter when you shoot them down? Would have have that IRL? I find that really off putting.

[BadKarmaSutra96]

I may be a little late to this thread, but OXM never (or very very rarely) gives out 10's. 10's are reserved for absolute perfect games. I don't think they've given out very many. GTA4 and Fallout 3 are the only ones I think recieved that rate. It's also possible that they only got 9.5 due to the way they scale things. An 8 is a very impressive score as far as the OXM scale goes.