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Originally posted by tjno2
After being shelled in most of the reviews, PTW hits rock bottom at Gamespot. 
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They were so very "disappointed"?? Gamespot actually liked Civ 3, which I thought flawed even after the fourth patch. This PTW mess was exactly what I expected from Firaxis, unfortunately. Yes, I told ya so.
It also got creamed in Gamespy which called it "a borderline disaster".
It's not just crappy MP and all the bugs, and the need for more patches; it's paying too much for too little SP - for stuff that should have been in the original game or come with a patch. After all the aggravation Firaxis gave us this past year they owed it to us.
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Franses
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I have lots of fun playing PTW with 1.14f but with SERIOUS restrictions. First, I play one to one games and secondly only with people that live nearby (but not on my LAN which strangely enough is often worse than playing via the Internet).
The potential of PTW still is great but Firaxis/Infogrames fully deserved this review result. The only thing I worry about is that they stop supporting it like Activision did with CTP2 (which I fortunately did not buy because of experience with this company). Now, if they do stop supporting it, I will never buy a Firaxis game again like I will never buy an Activision game again. If this will be the reacton of us all we will force these companies to deliver games that do what they are supposed to do.
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Redstar
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that link goes to
Demonworld: Dark Armies
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spartak
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I think THIS is the correct link.
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player1
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Belgrade, YU
Sep 2001
time: 06:24
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Originally posted by Vlad Antlerkov
Interestingly, the German sites all seem to be giving it fairly high
marks (at least compared to Gamespy et al). Perhaps the German sites know something Gamespy et al doesn't know (or the other way around)? |
Of course, they know for patches.
Gamespot on the other hand based opioion on unpatched PtW (or maybe with 1.04f).
Without 1.14f patch, MP was pretty bad, and it looks like that Gamespot only cares about MP and not SP additions.
So mark was understandable.
P.S.
But I realy think that instead of making all those extra & unused units (waste from money-making perspective), Firaxis made one extra unit set (instead of two) and several scenarios, I think that even with bad MP out-of-box, that PtW would get much better reviews.
Extra units were terrible drain of resources, and I bet that more then 80% of PtW owners haven't even seen them at all (since they are not implemented, exept maybe several of them in some MODs).
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Cartouche Bee
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Originally posted by player1
Gamespot on the other hand based opioion on unpatched PtW (or maybe with 1.04f).
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Well you can't knock Gamespot for that, Infogrames released it in that state. We also can't blame reviewers for not waiting long enough for patches after a product goes retail. If you put a product on the shelves you have to be prepared to accept customers "out of the box" experience.
Yes, they should have made a few scenarios for users like WW2, Japanese and being able to play against 31 AI since that capability was put into the game.
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Franses
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I think it is fully acceptable and needed to review the boxed product. Mind you... I am 100% sure there will be people buying this game without ever patching it (because they have no Internet or do not know there are patches or do not know how to install them). Does Firaxis/Infogrames ever think about these people?
We all know the answer. It took me a long time to get angry at these guys but PTW and especially, the patch incompatibility of 1.14f did it for me.
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The Wisconsonian Empire
Dec 2002
time: 23:24
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I'm quite disappointed, as well. I, however, didn't buy the game for the multiplayer.
I bought it for the new features, units, and civs (the vikings were the big push). I think that since the civs are usually quite similiar, they could easily make sh*tloads. Anyways, i get a couple more units, and the 9 civs. For some reason, when I start the game for the first time (in relation to when the computer was turned on), it takes THREE minutes for it to start as opposed to basically non for Civ3. Some features are more annoying, like the change in the preferences. My mods on Civ3 are worthless being I can't add the new civs. There is no decent manual and they don't even have the decency to give me a f*cking jewel case.
$30 and 400 MB wasted because I'm to stubborn to do anything about it.
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Shadowlord
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quote:
Originally posted by Franses
BTW who would buy PTW if you tried CIV3 out of the box? |
That is exactly why I haven't bought PTW.
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