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I've read many magazine/gaming site reviews and I have noticed that they are similar in large degree. In fact, they are as near as they can be given that authors are different people. Your typical review will: have a mention of the "one more turn" phenomena, note that Civilization IV is an upgrade "while keeping what made the series great" and occasionaly it will even praise good AI (like you can know that this soon). Then it will enumerate a couple of features and that's it.
Not only are these reviews similar to each other but they also seem almost carbon copies of reviews of Civilization II, Civilization III and Call to Power II. Is it like this in other genres? I admit I don't play that much (nor read reviews that much).
Where has imagination gone? You could almost write a script to produce Civilization reviews.
Anyway, check it out for yourselves:
One interesting thing to note about Call To Power II is that while the community IIRC trashed it mostly for bad AI, the reviewers seem instead to have disliked lack of originality, something that didn't bother them that much with other titles.
I've read many magazine/gaming site reviews and I have noticed that they are similar in large degree. In fact, they are as near as they can be given that authors are different people. Your typical review will: have a mention of the "one more turn" phenomena, note that Civilization IV is an upgrade "while keeping what made the series great" and occasionaly it will even praise good AI (like you can know that this soon). Then it will enumerate a couple of features and that's it.
Not only are these reviews similar to each other but they also seem almost carbon copies of reviews of Civilization II, Civilization III and Call to Power II. Is it like this in other genres? I admit I don't play that much (nor read reviews that much).
Where has imagination gone? You could almost write a script to produce Civilization reviews.
Anyway, check it out for yourselves:
One interesting thing to note about Call To Power II is that while the community IIRC trashed it mostly for bad AI, the reviewers seem instead to have disliked lack of originality, something that didn't bother them that much with other titles.
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