Gamespot Review for CoD - Score: 4.0

[MadBlaster]

Really sad and ironic. As a hardcore gamer for many years, I learned about IL-2

1946 from Gamespot about 4-5 years ago. I've played so many games since

the days of pong, I can't count, but nothing remotely close to the staying power of IL-2.


Hopefully CoD gets fixed soon and this low review score can be upgraded to

something respectable. It would be a real shame to have this review stay

out on the web as is. I mean, most gamers don't bother to buy games with

such a low score. There are simply too many good games to buy, so why

waste the time? 1C, you really have to do something about this. Get the

game fixed ASAP and ask Gamespot to re-review it. I ask myself, if it was 5

years ago and I saw that IL-2 got a score of 4.0, would I have bought it?

No chance, no way, no how. You want new simmers? You won't get it with

this review. Better fix it. Delay the U.S. release longer if you have to.

[Cpt.Badger]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

I read the review this morning and I get the feeling that the reviewer just doesn't understand the technical hurdles a hard core sim has to go through, especially a flight sim.

It's a fair review. You can't rate a game high if it runs like crap, just because it's supposed to be a flight sim. I used the word 'supposed' because you can't SIMULATE anything with 10 fps on your screen.

[Flanker35M]

S!

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.

[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.

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by Devastat

It is actually really sad to read this as actually CoD is a really good game, they just reviewed it way too early :/
Edit: I should have wrote, they released it way too early.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/il-2-...er/review.html

Gamespot, LOL

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.