PCGamer Review

**Quietus** · 09-18-2004, 03:41

User reviews are infinitely much more indicative of how the game really is.

It is fairly easy to root out the biased user opinions (For or Against) the game. You just have to filter the good, honest review.

Gamers play the game because they wanted to while professional reviews aren't always that way.

The PC Gamer basically said: diplomacy is "robust" but the diplomatic AI is "wonky", then the game is now more "accesible" so it is "easy to play" (with a "robust" diplomacy??).

**Spartiate** · 09-18-2004, 19:55

I have read several RTW reviews from PC GAMER,most of them by a gentleman by the name of Ross Atheron.He is a long time player of both STW and MTW but admittedly is more of a fan of the campaign map element than the real-time battles.He seems to be of the opinion however that this game is going to be the best thing to ever hit the strategy gaming scene and that we will not be dissappointed by it.
As a person who reads PC Gamer i have noticed that they slaughter many games in reviews who are deserving of it.My point being that if they say it's great then i'm going to believe them.
Lets all hope i'm right.

**ah_dut** · 09-18-2004, 22:31

indeed... a worthy prayer

**mambaman** · 09-19-2004, 00:33

yeah thats always been my experience of PC Gamer too, which fills me with great encouragement i have to say.......roll on release date!

**CrackedAxe** · 09-19-2004, 01:28

I wonder if those recommended system specs are what they deem to be necessary for big MP games (4v4,large units). I certainly hope not.

**lars573** · 09-19-2004, 15:24

^Those probably are the spec for 4v4 multiplay with largest unit sizes and not have any lag. PCgamer or any magazine of it's type will over inflate the system specs needed for the game. I've seen it done for many games and that some readers wonder what the hell was up with the uberhigh system spec when they got it to run fine on much less. The reason is simply advertising, alienware buy tonnes of ad space in PCgamer and usually on the next page from the review of the latest game where they said it needs and bleeding edge system to run it you'll find an ad for just such a system from alienware. I'm not being synical it's just marketing

**Spartiate** · 09-19-2004, 19:31

I have to agree with you there LARS.I saw a review in PCGAMER a while back on which PCs were best for gaming.Alienware won it by 1% i think,but the runner up was called TINY and to my eye had a slightly better spec and was something like 600 smackers cheaper(even more maybe).PCGAMER said the only reason they gave the award to Alienware was the cool case.
MARKETING.