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

[Sin Qua Non]

Guys you fail to see the hidden positive results this review will grant us. And I'm quite serious...

Maybe this review will have a good number of those consolers stay away from the game and thus any of the boards attached to the game. That way we don't have to deal with them when they whine over the fact that they can't understand why the troops run away after being charged in the rear by cavalry, or why their assassins fail now and then, or "how do I get to Ireland?"

Be pleased... I am.
But of course it doesn't change my opinion of the person's intellect and ability to understand the small aspects of the game (such as the camera )...

That's a very good point. Even better than building a giant wall to keep the consoles out!

[alexanderthegreat]

well youre right im very angry about that review. i mean how can you give a great game a 60 just becuse of 1 negative point.

[Razor1952]

I guess his review begs the question, what would YOU give RTW.

Personally, my first impressions were WOW, this is fantastic, and I'm still enthralled by the graphics and intricacies of the game.

Still it would be hard to give it 10/10 because of the zillions of errors. If most the worst errors( hate that word bugs... I reserve that for a game which won't work.. it actually is one of the most stable games I've played), please fix suiciding generals , armies which get slaughtered by towers, bribery and the wonders. The rest I can live with till more fine tuning.

My score without the patch? 9/10(for those errors) With the patch ? as close to 10 as you can get.

[Lonewarrior]

*urge to kill rising, rising RISING*

[zhuge]

There's a good listing of many reviews here:
http://www.metacritic.com/games/plat.../rometotalwar/

I haven't read CGW's review but PCGamer's comments were Ok and IMHO Adrenaline Vault makes a pretty fair review. Anyway most reviewers out there having to review many games do not spend much time on any one particular game and AI exploits which is one of the game's more glaring weaknesses are unlikely to be noticed unless the reviewer is a dedicated one or has some experience with similar games.

It is clear that in terms of graphics and interface, R:TW has surpassed its predecessors and although many aspects of diplomacy are a bit problematic currently it is also considerably expanded and improved over previous games. No doubt everyone realises that the AI needs some serious tweaking and there are certainly quite a number of txt file errors but with promises of a patch on the horizon on this matter, I strongly feel giving it any less than 85% would be too harsh a judgement.
In the meantime, there are always self imposed house rules we can play with so as to lessen particular AI exploits and also applying mods to correct txt file errors.

[AFM984]

Let's face it the guy was expecting an RTS But did not get, TW series is not an RTS & shouldn't be described that way, Its a mix, a hybrid, a genre of its own.
For Example, If you Hate Basketball, & I gave you THE basketball of all time you wouldn't give it the rating it deserves, not to mention that the guy seems to have had somthing different in mind, but I gotta say 60% is ridiculous.

[hellenes]

Another one:

http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exere...A6FD0EF85F.htm

Enjoy...

Hellenes

[Ashen]

Or my own original review, which can be read here , which got me an abusive email from one "Matthew Hunt" who claimed to be a beta tester for activision and told me that If I thought the beta testing was badly done, i was wrong. needless to say, he could never provide any proof of where he worked (yahoo email address for instance) so I just dismissed it as a fanboy getting a little angsty.

nice to know people read the reviews though!