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Originally Posted by HundertzehnGustav
mebbe he had a good reason to say SOMETHING good about the game.
like, mebbe his boss told hoim to do so?
and like, mebbe his boss got a new ferrari enzo if the review wasnt totally negative?
mebbe? whonows...
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First off.
NO ONE TELLS ME WHAT TO WRITE OR WHAT NOT TO WRITE! Not developers, not editors, not site owners. None have ever told me what to write. I have and do ask for input from other people because there are times when I am either mistaken or just plain wrong about something but I am not ever pressured to do one kind of review or another.
As much as some of you would hate to hear it, this isn't a totally awful game. No, I can't recommend it and I don't recommend it. Even without the awful DRM system that is in the game I wouldn't recommend it. IN fact, I made damned sure that to keep as much of the DRM stuff out of my review as possible so I could give a more unbiased view of the game as a game. I ended up writing a long editorial to accompany this review so people would know exactly what I thought of the DRM scheme in this game and in similar games.
But there are things I like. I like the concept of crew management, I like the campaign, buggy as it is. I like the fact that you have to sometimes go to a station to get a full idea of what is going on. I don't like the lack of commands, I don't like the bugs, I don't think they implemented the crew management properly, I think the AI is spotty (just like SHIII and IV) at times and some of the basic things that I expect in a game are missing. I pointed that out but I am not going to write three or four pages of constant griping and slamming.
A review has to point out good and bad parts of a game. Whether you like it or not this game has some good points. It isn't totally awful. After 10 years of reviewing games I know awful, I have played awful, I have reviewed awful. This isn't awful but I couldn't recommend it and I didn't recommend it.