|
|
Reviews Around The Web
|
Choose Web Reviews from this Maker:
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
|
|
|
|
|
Video game franchises are volatile entities. With each successive release of a popular franchise, publishers walk a fine line between pleasing existing fans and attracting new ones. Driving fresh sales with changes to gameplay can backfire terribly, as the fans that made a series a success in the first place may walk away in disgust. Yet publishers are reluctant to ditch previously successful branding, so a profitable series is likely to soldier on until its final iteration resembles its first release in name only. Some games have such valuable pedigrees that even the worst gameplay isn't enough to hamper the critical reception; take the extended technology demo known as Doom 3, for instance.
|
|
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
Can somebody give me my money back please? Empire Earth III is by far the worst game released in 2007. Empire Earth was amazing, Empire Earth II had some clever ideas but the physics were not done well, and Empire Earth III follows in the footsteps of Empire Earth II (some good ideas but extremely poorly executed). I can almost guarantee it that if you grab any RTS randomly from a store's shelf you will be better off than choosing Empire Earth III. The only innovating feature was expanding on an idea stolen from the Total War series - the turn-base world map feature incorporated in an RTS.
|
|
|
|
|
|