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Originally Posted by jibo
Considering the big sites are mainstream gamers oriented they usually overrate and easily give away nines for dumb games, this silly 4.0 is a really bad note, adding to this Gamespot is a CBS/US game site and the game is not even released there. None of them will play the russian state version and 90% of those reviews will be out dated by Monday, the patched game already deserve a 7.
Warning the kiddies by saying it's not your casual pop corn game is ok, but ultimately trashing the game with a fubar rating while tons of people are already enjoying it, is ridiculous.
European critics were right the game was indeed unplayable, now this ugly picture is fading out and a stunning CoD at high resolution is revealed.
The European point of view has to stop because it is no longer relevant or the US release will be another fiasco only based on false rumors this time.
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It was to be expected. It is clearly visible that the reviewer knows the old IL2 and was hoping for the next game to make it big. Although he also must rememver that he is to publish a fair review, giving an average user on how the game runs, feels, looks. And in that respect the review is fair, to be honest. 1C also must make games applicable to the wider crowd, and it does since we have the wide range of difficulty/realism settings. In this case the planning WAS horrid and we can`t do nothing about it. CoD is taking hits and seems trailing black smoke from one of the four engines currently. But it is not too late. Saldy for me to say, 1C will have to make up a HELL OF A LOT to make this game come back to the stage lights. It is required that they make multiple patches, and quick. Also, the communication with the community should be sustained , because it just may be the current biggest asset of 1C and that is community & product support.
It is also relatively "easy" to make a comeback - just put out another COD product - meaning an expansion pack. We have two pros here :
1 - they get additional money from the hardcore crowd (me 100% I buy it);
2 - they will trigger additional reviews which then will have to review not only the exp. pack, but take into account the full product aswell ;
3 - CoD can remind other users of its existence.
With that said, more such reviews will cause a catastrophe to CoD. Me, I damn KNOW that if back in 2001 I saw a bad review of IL2, I wouldn`t even touch it hence I would never know my #1 game ever.