Gamespot Review for CoD - Score: 4.0

[Flanker35M]

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Utu, if you read what I wrote carefully. Oleg & Team were not building a flight sim for the first time. They had already made IL-2 that has been a huge success. In many interviews they said that everything learned from making IL-2 will be used to make CoD better and the next step.

What I am saying is that they have the knowledge and tools + experience in making a flight sim. This alone helps as they do not need to start from scratch. Combine this with good planning and resource management and production time is less.

Let's take Rise Of Flight, different product but a flight sim nevertheless and good in what it is portraying. No competition or comparing. It started off with a relatively small group and was released with a few planes only. But it since then has steadily grown, more planes and features have been added along the way in a pace that suits them. In other words they know how to manage resources available and to prioritize what and when to add. Also a lot of bugs have been fixed too ad the graphics improved yet runs smoothly. Good example how a small team can pull off something like this when building on a solid core which you can expand later, when applicable. I think you agree, Utu.

Even a small team can do wonders when they know what they can handle or not and plan/prioritize accordingly. Not taking a task too much to deal with. So this is why it makes wonder that with all the experience it took 6 years and release was not one of the most smooth ones. Sure things did change along the way, but still the core of the sim was here. The goal to be achieved.

We got a sim that has all the potential built in. But it is still a bit unpolished. Eventually patching will make it as supposed, but you can not deny the importance of the first impressions on release. Hordes of gamers form their opinion based on reviews and if it is not very favourable, no matter how good the game itself might be or the potential it would possess, the sales will be hurt. Cold fact. Most of them never look back, some might after a while IF the game gets support and is patched. Same applies to CoD.