SH 5 ROCKS! New Review 84% from Gamestar

OakGroove · 03-04-10, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Schunken

Beleive me my non-german friends...

"Gamestar" in Germany is what "The Sun" is for England

Andreas

Way back GS actually provided thorough (as thorough as you could expect from a gamemag) multi-page Simulation pre- and reviews. Falcon4 was praised for "exceptional realism" and got 92%. F4AF didn't fair that bad either, being awarded 85%. Times have changed. Coincidentally the reviewer of F4 was Mick Schnelle, same guy who reviewed SH5 on http://www.gamersglobal.de/test/silent-hunter-5 . Joerg Langers, founder of Gamestar, is now chief editor of Gamersglobal.

PCzone gave Operation Flashpoint 2 a 9/10 scoring. Some people will know how this turned out, the game is basically abandonware now.

Schunken · 03-04-10, 04:41 PM

but this leads me to the question: Was "Gamestar" better in the past or the simulations....

Andreas

OakGroove · 03-04-10, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Schunken

but this leads me to the question: Was "Gamestar" better in the past or the simulations....

Andreas

Both

Bilge_Rat · 03-04-10, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by OakGroove

Falcon4 was praised for "exceptional realism" and got 92%. F4AF didn't fair that bad either, being awarded 85%.

The original review does not mean anything. Falcon 4 was a dog when it was released in 99. Many features were missing when it was released (yes, way much more than SH5) The code was unstable and it was always a coin toss whether the game would crash before you finished your current mission. It took 6 years of work and F4AF to get F4 to the level it should have been in 99.

OakGroove · 03-04-10, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

The original review does not mean anything. Falcon 4 was a dog when it was released in 99. Many features were missing when it was released (yes, way much more than SH5) The code was unstable and it was always a coin toss whether the game would crash before you finished your current mission. It took 6 years of work and F4AF to get F4 to the level it should have been in 99.

I don't have SH5, so i can't draw a comparison on which game shipped in a worse state.

However. I was trying to point out that "back then" Simulation games had a reserved column in those magazines, with according reviews. F4 was the most complex combat flightsim of it's time, of course it had issues, and imo fully deserved the rating it got.

McHibbins · 03-04-10, 06:48 PM

Maybe Gamestar is one of the three biggest game magazines but also the most incompetent. That´s not only my opinion, you can be sure of that

sav112 · 03-04-10, 06:52 PM

I probably give it great marks as well if I installed it and looked at it for a few hours. But do these guys know anything about this series I’ll go by what is on here by fans that know what they are talking about.

Onkel Neal · 03-04-10, 11:16 PM

Question: was Gamestar one of the magazines that featured a preview a few months ago?

ichso · 03-05-10, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Question: was Gamestar one of the magazines that featured a preview a few months ago?

Yes!

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