TWC Mod Reviews

**Aradan** · May 11, 2009, 01:36 PM

The TWC politely extends an opportunity to the critical Total War mod fans present in the community to share in the TWC Mod Reviews.

We’re seeking writers with a good grasp of the English language and fastidious eye to the various facets of modding. You must play a TW modification at an in-depth level and then review the various aspects of the mod, from installation to bugs to final victory or defeat. Reviews should contain an objective lilt, personal opinions tempered with observations on the engine’s limits, the creator’s goals, and the mod’s theme, while staying in the positive spirit. The purpose is to provide the gaming community with accurate and well-written mod reviews and the modding teams with serious feedback on their projects and suggestions on what to add, change or improve, while keeping away from nonconstructive and disrespectful criticism.

Modification assignments will be given randomly to each participant, depending on the game owned and the amount of experience with its mods. This is indeed for serious mod fans only. Please do not come in with the idea that you are going to review your favorite mod! The TWC Mod Reviews is an experiment in non-biased opinions on TW modifications with the hope of helping to improve mods that are reviewed and to disseminate those that do not receive as much advertising as others.

All interested please PM [user]Empress Meg[/user] or [user]Aradan[/user], stating the games/expansions you own and your experience with mods.
If you have any questions, please ask in this thread.

**Killerbee** · May 12, 2009, 11:00 AM

Great idea ! I saw you were discussing it in the other thread

Shouldn't this be stickied btw ?

Now i wonder , how many people have all these requirements ?

**Aradan** · May 12, 2009, 11:24 AM

Sticked.

Well, I wouldn't say the requirements are very tight, but I don't know how many have them; it's a good opportunity to find out nonetheless.

**kingman1337** · May 15, 2009, 06:44 PM

I would like to.

**Halie Satanus** · May 16, 2009, 01:44 PM

Something like this would be good. Click on the images to see the reviews.

**Kylan271** · July 13, 2009, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by Halie Satanus

Something like this would be good. Click on the images to see the reviews.

My God this is excellent,wow nice find. I did not know all these mods,maybe just names,but now I am more interested!!! Thanks.

**Copperknickers II** · July 13, 2009, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by Kylan271

My God this is excellent,wow nice find. I did not know all these mods,maybe just names,but now I am more interested!!! Thanks.

Shame about the language -

"Maud made the team, of which many variations on the theme of medieval Europe, where often there is a dwarf and a pile of similar states. Moreover, the city it is already available on the fashion map. If you cover your eyes a bit, we can consider that in this version of the mod, you can fight for Russia. Broken Crescent is in a separate folder and creates the desktop shortcut, which can and should start. "

**Roman_Man#3** · May 16, 2009, 11:45 PM

Hey, they've reviewed quite a lot of mods. Glad to see mine in there.

**mrcrusty** · May 17, 2009, 01:01 AM

I have a question, will the mod reviews be hosted on the site independently like a repository or database, or will they be added to an already established ongoing feature such as the Helios or the Eagle Standard?

Also, is permission required from the mod teams themselves before you can post a review?

I ask because if you decide to post them up as the reviews are written, the life span of this experiment will not last that long seeing as there is a smaller amount of mods for the Total War series compared to games which allow for much more modding potential, like say, TES IV: Oblivion.

On the other hand though, if you do decide to add this to something the like Helios or Eagle Standard, that means that the articles that are published will have to be limited according to the space allocated. That would mean that some people may be angry over having their hard work being put to the sideline until a new edition comes up.

It's a good thing that this is being endorsed by the site though, last year, I was a reviewer for the now defunct Oblivion Mod Reviews website and I know from experience that unless you have a sizable fan base and support from either modders or members of a forum, then it is very hard to get off the ground.

Anyways, sorry if what I said sounded offensive or inconsiderate, that's not my intention, I'm merely curious because while I support the idea of mod reviews, I have doubts on whether this would be successful or not.

I'm not actually interested in reviewing mods myself (as I'd be the guy who wants to review my favourite mod only), but I am interested in the idea of mod reviewing and am curious to see how you guys will organise the whole thing.

In any case, I will be waiting for the mod reviews with much anticipation and I wish you guys all the best of luck in this endeavour.

**Aradan** · May 17, 2009, 06:08 AM

If this will be put under the wing of ES is something we have not yet decided, but it's being discussed.

The goal is to have 1-2 reviews per month. This will give the reviewers enough time to play mods at a satisfactory in-depth level, and it will also extend the life of this project, as TW mods are not quite as many as the hundreds of TES mods. We hope that mods that are not picked will understand that we are going to be randomly choosing targets and also that one of the primary goals is to support less-known and less-played mods.

**Killerbee** · May 17, 2009, 07:32 AM

@ Aradan : Maybe posting the results (or a link to the results) on the front page ? And please , don't only review the big ones like TATW , Eb , RS ...

Pay more attention to the smaller/underrated ones

**MasterOfNone** · May 17, 2009, 08:23 AM

I would not like to see what amount to abandoned mods posing as completed mods being spotlighted - there needs to be a base standard probably something along the lines of "generally balanced, no or rare CTDs, no significant graphical or textual elements missing, nothing 'game breaking'".

**Aradan** · May 17, 2009, 08:54 AM

The reviews will be FrontPage'd of course, otherwise it wouldn't be a Spotlight, would it?

And, as I said, one of the main goals is shedding some light to the less known projects, I really doubt the likes of EB, RTR, RS etc need more advertisement.

Of course we're not going to review mods that are on beta or that have very low quality releases, but we also have to make sure we don't set the standard too high.

**MasterOfNone** · May 17, 2009, 09:24 AM

Yup, which standard should we use? The Aradan Standard, MasterOfNone Standard or Makanyane Standard?

**DaVinci** · May 17, 2009, 02:18 PM

Aha, it gets life. I'm curious how that experiment plays out.

**Nakharar** · May 17, 2009, 03:03 PM

Same i agree with Davinci

**portu cale 64** · May 24, 2009, 05:47 PM

Hi !

Could I help the moders with my albuns? They are not finished but I´ve got many more things to put on my page concerning the period between the Classic Age until the Central and South America civilizations. Please reply.

Thanks

Portu cale 64