More Trouble for Creative Assembly

**Paul Stud** · April 01, 2009, 03:20 PM

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** · April 01, 2009, 03:22 PM

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

**Generaal Van Heutsz** · April 01, 2009, 03:22 PM

well at least this proves they dont buy good reviews

**johncage** · April 01, 2009, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by Generaal Van Heutsz

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** · April 01, 2009, 03:25 PM

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.

**D.B. Cooper** · April 01, 2009, 03:26 PM

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** · April 01, 2009, 03:35 PM

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?

**yankeepyrate** · April 01, 2009, 03:23 PM

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

**Grimstoned** · April 01, 2009, 03:24 PM

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.

**Redcoat69** · April 01, 2009, 03:26 PM

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

**aronnov** · April 01, 2009, 03:26 PM

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

**The Librarian** · April 01, 2009, 03:54 PM

No. CA Australia worked on this one.

**God-Emperor of Mankind** · April 01, 2009, 04:13 PM

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.

**jsktrogdor** · April 01, 2009, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by TB666

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.

**D.B. Cooper** · April 01, 2009, 04:27 PM

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** · April 01, 2009, 06:23 PM

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

**Renegen** · April 01, 2009, 09:42 PM

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.