EXCLUSIVE! Master of Orion III review AND an interview with William C. Fisher

[JonahFalcon]

Not true. Many reviews try to avoid spoilers, especially on request from the producer. Movies are a great example - see Psycho, The Crying Game, Presumed Innocent, The Ring, any mystery movie...

[Stuie]

But that's a choice that the reviewer makes; yes, the producer can request that a spoiler not be revealed, but they have no legal recourse of which I am aware if such information is presented.

I can pick up a copy of MOO3 (well, soon....) and write pretty much whatever I please about it, so long as it is not slanderous.

[Craig P.]

Market forces also weigh against revealing spoilers. If the audience doesn't like it, then they won't read the offending reviews (or, more likely, future reviews from a source that has offended in the past).

[JonahFalcon]

Forget the audience. The reviewer can be frozen out by developers and producers.

[Sarxis]

I've only glanced at some of the current MoO3 reviews, because I don't want ANY spoilage that I can avoid, even info concerning just general gameplay.

I enjoy learning curves, you see, as well as RTFM before I play games.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by JonahFalcon
Forget the audience. The reviewer can be frozen out by developers and producers.

That, I will agree with.

By the way Jonah, I enjoyed your review. Thanks!

[JonahFalcon]

I just noticed I made an error in my review.

For example, in Master of Orion II, hydroponic farms were put on a build queue, and when built, directly supplied food. In MOO3, they now are automatically built by the planet's viceroy to supplement each Bioharvest DEA.

I meant "Soil Enrichment", not Hyproponic Farms. Hydroponic Farms are built one in each region, regardless of that regions content. Soil Enrichment augment Bioharvest DEAs.

[patrickjb53]

I enjoyed your review. I read the spoiler and personally it didn't bother me. I will still buy the game.