Gamespot Review for CoD - Score: 4.0

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Originally Posted by Russkly

What you say is right, in our opinion, i.e. that of the select and very adoring combat flight sim niche.

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

I disagree. First of all I have played all kinds of games. I play since the early 90's -- I have seen a lot. And IL2 COD is BY FAR not the worst release -- especially since the devs are there busting their butts trying to fix it. This is already an exception today. Most common are devs running away never to be heard of again -- let alone posting on a forum like this.
Ace"s? Disappeared from the radar after CFS3 release. The community "fixed" the sim the best they could in 7 years of modding work, with some miraculous results, like OFF. Do you think there was ever a single post from the devs in any of their forums in 7 years? Nope, nada, nil.
Pretty much the same story with SH5. It being fixed by the modders over at Subsim since a year, and it has become pretty good.

The reviewer at Gamespot could have easily known that the game is about to be fixed...or that the intent is there. A simple click over to this forum could have told him so. It would have been nothing than fair play and common sense to wait some weeks until you throw a score into the world....a score which may be completely false in some months, or even just in some weeks. Hell, maybe next week end.
I say that he was lazy, and uninterested in the genre. that would not surprise me. It would not surprise me if was uninterested in PC simulation as a whole.