OXM Review of BoP: 8/10

mar01006765 · #1 08-27-2009, 10:06 AM

Official Xbox Magazine gives BoP 8/10

http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/sim/i...g=tabs;reviews

is this old news? if so just lock / delete

Tomo · #2 08-27-2009, 10:13 AM

Interesting. I was expecting it to score higher. Having said that i don't care what some idiot thinks of the game. It's our own opinion that counts. Add to the fact that all the major review site are now compromised these days by dodgy deals and kickbacks.

Wouldn't suprise me if the publishers of Heroes Over Europe paid the big sites to review BoP poorly.

dandymountfarto · #3 08-27-2009, 10:15 AM

it got 8/10. why is that poor?

mar01006765 · #4 08-27-2009, 10:30 AM

this is from the OXM site:

Review Scores Explained

8.0 or 8.5: Great

A great game and an A-list title, but either it either has niche appeal, suffers from minor technical or design issues, or has peripheral problems like a crummy interface.

Moog · #5 08-27-2009, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tomo

Wouldn't suprise me if the publishers of Heroes Over Europe paid the big sites to review BoP poorly.

Right, the HOE got 5/10 in the same issue. Why wouldn't they pay for their own higher score instead of sinking the Birds of Prey?

mar01006765 · #6 08-27-2009, 10:43 AM

lol

5.0 or 5.5: Mediocre

Very unspecial and average in the worst sense of that word. You can’t pound it for being terrible, but it’s hard to find something to recommend it for.

Tomo · #7 08-27-2009, 11:06 AM

Okay cool, sounds like 8 us a very respectable score then.

Sorry, haven't bothered reading reviews since OXM were going through their phase of handing out 9 & 10's like candy.

The opinions i value the most are those of other people posting here. Based on peoples' impressions of the demo i think this will be a spectacular game. (I personally haven't played the demo as i don't have XBL).

King Jareth · #8 08-27-2009, 11:27 AM

Considering its more of a niche title my first thought was "cool an 8".

Quote:

Originally Posted by metacritic page for BoP

Official Xbox Magazine

While IL-2 doesn't quite manage to be the awesomest air combat game of all time, it comes temptingly close. [October 2009, p.68]

mar01006765 · #9 08-27-2009, 12:13 PM

Here's one readers take on the OXM review over at SimHQ forum:

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...e_Reviews.html

FOZ_1983 · #10 08-27-2009, 12:44 PM

8/10 isnt bad....

isnt bad at all!!!

actually better than i thought it would be. Regardless of how good the game is, they usually get fairly poor scores because this genre doesnt appeal to game reviewers (or the ones who seem to do the reviews for flynig games).

Im happy with 8/10, and look forward to next friday when i can fly around in the mighty hawker hurricane and shoot down some HE111's over dover.