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Old 05-09-10, 01:04 PM   #1
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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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Old 05-09-10, 05:59 PM   #2
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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...
You clearly are not familiar with Tom Cofield's work or reputation.

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Old 05-11-10, 04:12 PM   #3
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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...
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.
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