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I really expect different from Maddox games with all their prior experience, especially since the lack of an immersive SP campaign has been criticized since the original Il2. And RoF on release had FAR fewer problems for me than CoD. The fact that I'm disappointed with the campaigns and annoyed by the plethora of bugs doesn't mean I'm not enjoying CoD. Otherwise I wouldn't already have spent so many hours with it. I'm sure CoD will get better over time, already the 1st two patches for example have significantly improved performance for me but that doesn't change the fact that the current state of the sim leaves a lot to be desired and that the Gamespot review is indeed a fair review of this product. |
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I'm capable of making my own mind up on things without reading guff like this ... I do buy PC Pilot each second month and no doubt they will do a review too, their reviews are mostly biased and sometimes idiotic, but at least I expect them to make it clear that IL2 CoD (rightly or wrongly) is a work in progress. I'm sorry, but I never even opened the link, as soon as I saw Gamespot I smirked. |
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"Fair review of the product".
Maybe so, although I am not sure I actually agree with it. The list of games and especially sims that went public half broken is endless...from small niche sims to big blockbuster MMO's with 100M$ production cost. And there are many which became great games / sims nevertheless, because the devs and the community continued to support it, with sometimes massive improvement only some months after the initial "failed" release. Someone played the first months of EvE Online? Or Age of Conan, or even WoW? Or SH3, SH5, ROF, BoB WoV, and so on. Heck, I can remember the whining at the release of the original IL2 that it was "unplayable" on mid range and lower range machines! And see what it has become -- reference N°1 in WW2 combat simming. The reviewer should know all this, and maybe he does. But then he should also know what a niche product this is, and that it's almost a miracle this console crazy world is getting a new serious WW2 combat sim AT ALL. He should be very careful what he is doing. So yes, he can say truthfully what his first impressions are on this current day -- fair enough. But it would have been a lot smarter, and IMO more fairplay, to not give a score at the moment, but to wait instead until the planned revisit in 6 months. That is what Eurogamers.fr has done, and I think that is a much better idea if you want to give the game a chance.....and the genre. Review yes, but no score until the devs have gotten their chance on fixing it. http://www.eurogamer.fr/articles/tes...test445?page=3 Now Gamespot has done the damage and the score of 4/10 will run through the internet, hurting this sim, and ultimately the genre as a whole. Even if you score the game 8/10 in six months it's hard to take that back. Not very smart ! Last edited by KOM.Nausicaa; 04-17-2011 at 07:26 PM. |
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Very true, when you throw mud it sticks unfortunately, CoD is not the only release that was released early, RoF was too, we are in a global recession just now and if the devs never got money then they would be unable to continue and its as simple as that, its not as if the devs of IL2 have done a runner, they are giving support and patches and very good patches too now that they can pay some bills, any good review should take note of the global recession and what it means and be more realistic IMHO.
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Well said and thought. |
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However in the big, bad world of business, a product was released, for whatever reason, in a state barely fit for purpose. In most professions one would get slammed for giving the purchasing public something so obviously undercooked. Gamespot simply did what they do with other games once released - review them. We shouldn't blame Gamespot for not being as one-eyed as we are; rather we should blame Ubisoft/iC/Maddox for the untimely release of this product. That said, I love 1C/Maddox and IL2 & CoD, and I will endure patiently while it becomes, I hope, the wondrous product it could become. R |
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Fair review of the product
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I never read reviews. Many of them are written by people who have no idea what they are talking about.
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The counter to that argument is that reviews are useless for people who think they always know best.
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