A review of Rome TW that will make you VERRRYYY ANGRYYY!!!!

[hellenes]

The link

http://www.xgr.com/index.php?id=8931

Enjoy...

Hellenes

[BDC]

Variety is good. There was a similar MTW review. At least this one didn't claim it was too hard because people run away.

[lancer63]

Poor review....poor indeed.

[zhuge]

I wouldn't get too worked up. Some reviewers are just like that. They mention 1 or 2 negative points (which aren't negative at all - he's said himself that there is an automanage function) and then they slap a 60% on the score. He didn't really distort the points (I've seen worse reviews for other games) but mentions everything in a very poor light. He obviously DIDN'T want to like the game at all for some reason and was quite unfair but with the tons of good reviews out there, 1 mediocre review won't hurt sales and general opinion.

I've played, enjoyed and even modded games which have generally lower review scores than R:TW (for example: Temple of Elemental Evil (CRPG by Troika)) so I don't read too much into reviews. If I think I'll like a game, I'll buy it anyway and I certainly won't base my judgement on any 1 review.

[Sin Qua Non]

ARGGG! THE RED MIST IS DESCENDING!! MUST KILL!

Eh. Sounds like he's part of the "c'mon, I haven't killed anything in 3 minutes!" crowd. He may be pacified by running an endless loop of Gladiator with an old PS2 controller in his hand. One man's opinion, I guess.

I've gone whole sessions without ever engaging in a battle. It was just the way it turned out. I like the building part best. Once you're huge, the fun quite often will wane. Then you have to get creative. I had fun one night just reorganizing my homeland garrisons for more economy and efficiency. Sure, I had some fights, but I wasn't the one starting them. Games like IL2 and submarine sims also have these kind of criticisms. They want to get in the air and be in one immediate and constant dogfight, or shoot 6 torpedoes a minute. The hunt is a lot of the fun. Hell, some of my best times in IL2 is when I'm nursing my bucket of bolts home, with no rudder controls and a rough engine.

You get a solid B+ on the inflammatory topic title though.

[Oaty]

He makes fun of the simple city building features but that is what I like about it. The tech tree is so much simpler from MTW but too tech up still takes a long time. It makes it much more enjoyable for the fact that very few buildings require other buildings and also you can specialize a certain unit in each city while ignoring the other tech buildings.

If I want city building I'll go back to pharoah

[Church]

Hey. Lets not say anything we cant take back about Pharoh(i love that game) horrible review tho.

[Suppiluliumas]

It is very poorly written; full of poor transitions and redundancies. It reads like a highschooler's book review. The rating seems a bit arbitrary as well. Let's just hope he or she was not compensated in any way for such a weak effort.

[Maltz]

He got one point wrong that you "cannot" zoom to details when the battle happens. I didn't find that out in the first 2 hours of playing, either. I also have a feeling that this guy only played 2 hrs to write this reveiw?

[R3dD0g]

It is very poorly written; full of poor transitions and redundancies. It reads like a highschooler's book review. The rating seems a bit arbitrary as well. Let's just hope he or she was not compensated in any way for such a weak effort.

You checked out their 'Contact Us' page? Looks like the sophomore dingbats society.

And this comment:This sort of management is required to advance the game but I personally don't want to play medieval a Sim City. I'm bloodthirsty and want to fight, fight, fight! This is Rome: Total War after all. kind'a sums up what the reviewer is looking for.

And the name of the mag XGR what's that stand for XGames Reviews? I personally don't give a Cheney what some consoler thinks about my PC games.