Comments on: Entirely Baseless Analysis: UK Charts

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:14:09 +0000

Apparently someone just found their way to RPS by Googling for Monkey Toucher 5000. Perhaps if we all believe hard enough, the game will spring into existence.

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:44:41 +0000

Kast: WE READ ALL
Joe: No, sadly. Don’t have my original text either, and it was written during my time at Future Publishing so I wouldn’t have the rights to it in any case.

By: Kast

Kast — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:21:45 +0000

I myself am an ardent CSI: Las Vegas fan. I love the series and books and consider it my equivalent of a soap – come for the forensics, stay for the drama.

I’ve played the first three games and found them all brutally tedious. I wanted them to be fun. I wanted them to be intelligent and imaginative. Instead they are without exception plain, cliché-ed piles of tripe. Nothing but find-the-pixel searches, carpet-bomb style conversation trees and (worst of all) bored voice acting. Voice acting, I tell you! The one thing you’d expect it to get right!

But no. I was betrayed. Luckily I’d only borrowed the games so CBS Interactive never got my precious money.

(Also, I wonder if anyone will read this? The articles about to fall off the front page).

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:04:23 +0000

Is the makin’ magic review on the internet anywhere?

By: Garth

Garth — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:24:30 +0000

I’m shocked Quake Wars is selling that well (although that is the UK list, and that type of game is quite popular there. It felt so mediocre to me, I figured it’d do O.K., then disappear.

Guess we’ll see, eh?

By: Chis

Chis — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:23:00 +0000

> 2. The Sims 2: Bon Voyage

Well, it wasn’t going to be Erotic Dreams, was it?

(More’s the pity ;P)

By: Bob Arctor

Bob Arctor — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:58:47 +0000

Makin Magic PCG review was hilarious. One of my favourite bad-game-reviews.

By: Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:36:57 +0000

The CSI game is made by the excellent Telltale Games, also making the Sam & Max episodes, so clearly it has to be superb!

Actually I have no idea, but considering the development talent it might actually be a good game. I doubt 99% of the people who bought it considered the whole ‘quality’ thing seriously though, as I’m assuming that audience is largely a bit thick and doesn’t really have an opinion on anything they play.

I am not a generalist.

By: Rahul Gonsalves

Rahul Gonsalves — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:37:21 +0000

Hmmm. I still enjoy the Settlers 2. The 10th Anniversary Edition gets plenty of play time. But the Rise of an Empire one? Granted, I haven’t finished it, neither have I read your review, but the inability to have multiple storehouses was a serious, serious mistake, IMHO.

@cigol, how does Anno 1701 stack up as a city-building game? Does it justify a ‘Strategy’ tag?

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:11:07 +0000

That review was me, in fact, and one of my prouder moments, so chuffed someone remembers it. A rare instance of being able to slip a concept review past PCG’s overlords.

By: Feet

Feet — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:44:23 +0000

I remember reading the review of Makin’ Magic in PCG when it was first released, it might have been reviewed by one of you lot, or possibly Cobbett, my memory fails me. Anyway it basically described the typical day of an EA exec, the one who decided to drop the g. Was very well done, and I always recall it when I see the words “The Sims”.

By: Turin Turambar

Turin Turambar — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:34:07 +0000

The list has already been updated. Now it is like this:

1 The Sims 2: Bon Voyage
2 Quake Wars: Enemy Territory
3 Csi: Hard Evidence
4 Rail Simulator
5 Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
6 World In Conflict
7 Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
8 The Settlers: Rise of An Empire
9 Medal of Honor: Airborne
10 FIFA 08