Comments on: Red Alert 3 Smackdown

By: Krupo

Krupo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:59:33 +0000

You’re welcome to call him a fascist, though. It bemuses the online masses. ;)

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:58:28 +0000

Just in passing, I didn’t say the list was fascist – I said it was the product of a genre fascist. In other words, the product of a particularly closed mind with strict ideas of what RTS should or could be.

By: Troy

Troy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:26:35 +0000

I haven’t read Tom’s review so as not to have my own too heavily influenced, but I know that he didn’t like it.

His point about the marketing is a good one. EA, for the most part, isn’t making games for the hardcore RTS player, at least not intentionally. And they have had some very good RTSes recently.

RA3 is not a very good RTS.

By: The Preacher

The Preacher — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:21:15 +0000

Tom Chick’s review on Crispy Gamer has also drawn ire, but he also wrote it for the more general populace. One of his points (in responding to a gamer’s email) was that EA markets it to the masses. Hardcore fans are going to buy the game anyway, but the appearance of Jenny McCarthy, J.K. Simmons et al, shows that EA wants to bring in different people. This game is really not for them, despite the marketing.

By: James Allen

James Allen — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:41:40 +0000

I have also weighed this myself, as to who is going to read the review, and I think it depends on the game. Reviews for super hardcore wargames should be written from a super hardcore wargame perspective because that’s who is most likely going to be playing them. On the other hand, I suspect most reviews of RA3 will be written for a more general audience in mind because that’s who the game is geared at (you won’t see a review from me for the game since EA hates me and won’t send me free games). Plus, people have to understand that the review is ultimately written from the reviewers perspective. Is everyone going to like Europa Universalis III? No, but I do and I gave it a high score. This is also why I tend to not review RPGs…I don’t like them so I’m not in a real position to compare and contrast them against other entries in the genre (I actually turned down a review of a hack-n-slash today, so you should go to Soldak’s website and buy it anyway to make up for my shortcomings because Depths of Peril was good stuff).

By the way, I am surprised that the “there are certainly bad reviewers out there” comment doesn’t link directly to my site :)

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:22:34 +0000

“Serious Cat RTS”

I like that.