Great!
I was awainting for this reviews, let's read it!

congratulalions

Bah, he rated both Crysis and World in Conflict as 9.5's.

I say we egg his car

it should be a 9.8 ... I mean the only problem he had with it was the game lasted too long? WTF kind of issue is that? I mean would you rather have a 12 hour game? This should have been a plus not a negative mark....and losing sleep I can understand ... I mean I was once up till 5 AM playing and I had a 9:30 quantum mechanics lecture .... and I played the game during lecture too .... this game will take over your life ...

A good gamespot rating? How much did that cost?

Seems to be that every reviewer has complained about the lack of a single player campaign. I'd agree to the point where a multiplayer game is not the only thing that makes a game an instant success... but I also think that a boring campaign could transform a great title to "only good ideas"

BTW, congratulations to the team.

i think the game deserves it, but I'd have liked to see a higher score though.

if you think this games deserves a 9.8 you ahve your head up your ass...

Right..

yeah, gamespot took a lot of hits in the last weeks, so its by far not my first check for reviews anymore. that said, I think the review was informative, accurate and well written, so in spite of the source, I still give it some weight. but they should REALLY start to repair their tattered image. so far I have heard of little that would suggest a true commitment to independent, neutral reviews to calm the unrests.

I agree with the campaign thing though. I absolutely love games with a good campaign. or rather, games with missions that are fun enough to transpot a great story. a campaign has effectively two objectives: one, get the story across and set people up to get immersion while gaming. I dare say I would have enjoyed starcraft a lot less without campaign. two, introduce players to elements of the game, things more complex than tutorial stuff (although the first missions of campaigns are effectively tutorials).

I'm not a fan of Game$pot either, but a 9.0 means a higher average for metacritic, which is at 8.7/10 for SoaSE right now. Kudo's to Ironclad and Stardock, they might break 9.0 after a few more 9's get counted. I do think 9.0 is fair, I think with better 3d modeling on the ships, and more of a directed campaign mode it could've gone higher.

Grats to Ironclad and Stardock! A well deserved Editor's Choice Award.

See, you don't HAVE to run hundred-thousand-dollar ad campaigns on Gamespot to get a great score! All you've gotta do is make a great game! Apparently Ironclad and Stardock know how to do that. Give some classes, guys.

Good review, I've always enjoyed Ocampo's work. Hopefully I'll be able to read him again on a different site someday.

Sakhari: The hatred comes from typical blind fanboyism not getting what they want. You know, PS3 owners complaining why Resistance didn't get a perfect score. Or Xbox owners complaining why Halo 3 didn't get a perfect score. Or Wii owners complaining why Twilight Princess didn't get a perfect score.

It just so happened that the scapegoat for their hate was Gamespot. Which just coincidently followed with that Gerstmanngate issue.

Well, that's my take on it.