Gamespot RO2 beta preview
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Kind of a lazy preview tbh.. I've done longer writeups on the contents of my bowel movements.
Just would have been nice to see a slightly more in-depth preview that covered some more of the features and mechanics.
Just would have been nice to see a slightly more in-depth preview that covered some more of the features and mechanics.
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Don't listen to gamespot! Its the 2nd corrupted game site. Right after IGN. And if the company doesn't pay something it will get bad review or preview
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i agree with you guys about gamespot and ign.. to be fair, they haven't dumped on the game.. yet.
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Of course if you bothered to do your research, you'd see that they do the 'contrarian corner' feature on games that offer a different point of view from the sites review, as well as a feature with multiple writers giving their opinions about a game. But what can I expect from the internet? Conspiracies and zero research, that's what.
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Can't find this preview anywhere on the front page.
As others have said gamespot is a shoddy game review website whose 'features' and reviews all too often are front page news due to some healthy investment of cash from interested parties.
As others have said gamespot is a shoddy game review website whose 'features' and reviews all too often are front page news due to some healthy investment of cash from interested parties.
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It might be a short and not all that informative preview, however I think that its a good sign that its a positive preview and the reviewer seems to have bought into the realism & immersion philosophy. Gamespot, like nearly every game review site, will almost never badmouth a game in a preview, even if they can clearly tell the game is going to be crap. However, there is a difference in tone between games that they actually liked and games they are just previewing because its what they do. Generally with games that are going to be crap they just sort of run down what the features at release are supposed to be and pretty much avoid touching on thier actual gameplay experience. (Or if a game is in real trouble they will note "we ran into some problems that hopefully will be fixed") This preview is the opposite of that, the guy talks about his game experience so much he forgets to talk about the bullet point features.
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The only reason they had time to write something about a PC game is because console gaming is so 2006.
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That review is practically legendary. G4/xplay inexplicably reviewed both ro1 and ww2ol within a short period of one another despite both having been out for quite a long while. Both video reviews consisted of pretty much nothing but "lol history nuts have sticks up thier asses" jokes and badly animated hitler heads popping up onscreen to spout jibberish. If you want to see for yourself you need to watch the video/tv reviews, the text reviews have some semblance of objectivity to them.
edit: I love in the ww2ol review, they basically state "Ugh, another WARGAME? BORING! Lets insult pete townshend!" That would be one thing if they were a company who advocated games without violence and with magical flying ponies. But when you basically exist to give the latest wargame by ea a 9, that complaint is about as hypocritical as you can get.
Here is that review:
http://www.g4tv.com/games/pc/31670/battleground-europe-world-war-ii-online/review/
The review also shows them engaging in endless friendly fire while complaining that people don't die when you shoot them.......I mean........
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I always just gloss over the big review sites.
You basically get not only the bias that would be associated with a newspaper but also the fanboys from the different platforms so it ends up being:
Game from smaller developer 0/10
Game from EA 9/10
Game on console that has two types of guns!!!1111 10/10
You basically get not only the bias that would be associated with a newspaper but also the fanboys from the different platforms so it ends up being:
Game from smaller developer 0/10
Game from EA 9/10
Game on console that has two types of guns!!!1111 10/10
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