More Trouble for Creative Assembly

[Paul Stud]

Anyone see Gamespots review of Stormrise? Worst score I've ever seen. 2/10 is 'Big Rigs' territory.

"Developer Creative Assembly has built an entire product around a fundamentally flawed control scheme and neglected almost every important facet of the RTS genre. Embarrassingly busted pathfinding, infuriating interface problems, abysmal mission design, substandard visuals--these unpleasant elements and many others make the whole thing an unseemly mess".

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...ry;read-review

So who's the first fanboy thats gonna post that its really ok because they will patch it soon... or its a work in progress.

[Redcoat69]

yea CA should stick to the total war series.they do best their

[Generaal Van Heutsz]

well at least this proves they dont buy good reviews

[yankeepyrate]

Not for second tier title anyway. C'mon, we all know the fix was in as far as ETW hype.

[Grimstoned]

Wow. IMO they should focus all their efforts into producing great TW games. If they cant make a great TW game... they may just expand them selves right out of the games business.

[johncage]

well at least this proves they dont buy good reviews

it would have been too obvious. like giving big rigs above a 5/10

[Jimmizilla]

Wow, 2.0... that sucks.

Gamespot isn't the most rts-friendly site IMO. Or even PC-friendly. They gave Empire a much lower score than just about every other reviewer out there.

I think CA should just stick to the TW series, and work on just one game at a time, that way, more people can work on a TW game and fix more of the bugs and add more functionality before shipping.

[Redcoat69]

the greatest rts game for the consel in my opinion is endwar

[aronnov]

good. maybe they can just throw that game under the boss and concentrate on nothing but fixing ETW now.

[D.B. Cooper]

Yeah we have a thread on that:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=240894

IGN ripped it apart too (4.2 I think). But GS really surprised me. Most reviews fell within fair and bad, but 2/10 is just awful. At least they're honest.

[CelticPagan]

Funny, but at points I thought he was reviewing Empire, such as when he talks about bad path-finding, ranged units running into the enemy rather than shooting at them, and combined units into a group not functioning as a cohesive group. Wonder if CA had the same Devs work on both games?

[The Librarian]

No. CA Australia worked on this one.

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

I'm not surprised that it bombed.
The first gameplay video showed a boring and shallow console RTS.
CA should stick with the total warrior series instead when it comes to consoles.
Viking was pretty good even if it was repeative.

[D.B. Cooper]

I didn't have high hopes either, but I didn't think it would be this bad. At least critics are singing praises for ETW so they can throw this out and forget about it.

[eddy_purpus]

not surprised,...
CA should stick with the keyboard and mouse and not with the gay controller.

[jsktrogdor]

I'm not surprised that it bombed.
The first gameplay video showed a boring and shallow console RTS.
CA should stick with the total warrior series instead when it comes to consoles.
Viking was pretty good even if it was repeative.

Viking was a little more than repetitive.

[Renegen]

Who cares about Gamespot, they probably gave them 2 out of 10 because they didn't buy advertising. That game would have easily been a 6.4 with a lot of advertising.