Did a player review of CoD over at Gamespot...

[mazex]

Originally Posted by GnigruH

LOL, I wouldn't call this thing you wrote 'a review'.

Well, since the Spectrum days I think I have played almost all the major flight sim titles on the market, with a few exceptions I have played the minor and the ones that should remain forgotten too. Thereby my crystal ball is rather hefty and I see good things in it regarding this title - IF it is not left in the gutter after a number of teenagers cut it down by screaming in all the forums and other channels they find.

Wandering off topic... I use to play Little Big Planet 2 with my kids on the PS3 (great game by the way - as far from serious flight sims as you can get). The hero called Sackboy has an arch enemy in the game that naturally gets dealt with in the final battle called "The Negativitron". He feeds on the negative thoughts people have and in the last cut scene he says "You can never truly defeat me, I am in all of you... You created me, if you destroy me - you destroy yourselves". A straight reference to Joseph Conrad - just like Apocalypse Now...

Anyway - I feel that Negativitron should have left Sackboy alone and popped over to this forum instead, living a nice life - fat and happy

[Lixma]

Originally Posted by mazex

Well, since the Spectrum days I think I have played almost all the major flight sim titles on the market, with a few exceptions I have played the minor and the ones that should remain forgotten too.

Me too. (Tomahawk FTW....LensLok FTL)

Thereby my crystal ball is rather hefty and I see good things in it regarding this title

Me too.

But don't call it a 'review'. Call it clairvoyance.

In Conrad's 'Lord Jim' the titular hero eloped to a life on the sea with romantic notions of adventure and bravery. He imagined himself as a '9.0' but when it came down to it he found himself a '3.5'. He then spent the rest of his life dealing with this ordinary fact.

Should an honest review of Jim's character be based on what we'd like him to be, what he could be, or what he is?