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Elemental Game Review(s) Thread

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Elemental Game Review(s) Thread

One thread to hold them all!

from Elemental Forums

So as I did for my previous favorite game SoaSE, I'll be scouring the web for Elemental reviews and posting them here. That way there will be a single location where we can navigate to all the reviews of the game, for easy reference.

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If you happen to find one I don't post, leave a comment below it in the following format:

  1. Site Name
  2. Score
  3. WWW Link

I hope this will be made sticky by someone from SD like my previous thread was in SoaSE.  

 

Metacritic Average

 

English Reviews:

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NEOSEEKER

9/10


http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Games/Reviews/elemental_war_of_magic/

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Eurogamer

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BIG Download

Verdict: Must Own

http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/09/07/review-elemental/

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IGN

6 / 10

http://pc.ign.com/articles/111/1117649p1.html

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Gameshark

C

http://www.gameshark.com/reviews/3607/p_0/Elemental-War-of-Magic-Review.htm

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Gamespot

4 / 10

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/elementalwarofmagic/review.html

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GamerNode

2 / 5

 http://gamernode.com/reviews/9442-elemental-war-of-magic/index.html

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GameInformer

6.5 / 10

http://gameinformer.com/games/elemental_war_of_magic/b/pc/archive/2010/08/31/review.aspx

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Giantbomb

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun

""At the moment, I think “unfinished” is too harsh a phrase. I’d lean towards “a bit shoddy”.""

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/30/impressions-of-elemental-war-of-magic/

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Joystiq

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Destructoid

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PC Gamer

70 / 100

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/09/02/elemental-war-of-magic-review/

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G4  X-Play

2/5

http://g4tv.com/games/pc/63836/Elemental-War-of-Magic/review/

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Shacknews

No score at this time.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/65347

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1 UP

C+

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3181116

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Fidgit

"I guarantee it's not going to be like anything you'll read from any other reviewer."

hhttp://fidgit.com/archives/2010/08/elemental_the_review.php

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RPGWatch

"Elemental is still 2-3 patches away from being ready for prime time.  When and if those patches are done, Elemental has the potential to be one of those few games that stays on your computer for years as a fun gaming experience."

http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/article?articleid=159&ref=0&id=412

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OutOfEight

5/8

http://www.outofeight.info/2010/08/elemental-war-of-magic-review.html

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GameEnema

6/10

www.gameenema.com/2.shtml

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GamePro

3.5/5

http://www.gamepro.com/article/reviews/216449/elemental-war-of-magic/

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Non-English Reviews:

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iPon

57%

http://ipon.hu/jatekok/elemental_war_of_magic_%E2%80%93_elementalis_bakloves/825/

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Meristation

6.5/10

http://www.meristation.com/v3/des_analisis.php?pic=PC&id=cw4c7d415c6ed86&idj=cw4911603a40884

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Gamestar

79/100

http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/elemental-war-of-magic/test/elemental_war_of_magic,44740,2317608.html

 

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Reply #101 from Elemental Forums Top

Just for the record, RPS, along with Tom Chick, are probably the two most honest and compelling gaming journalism sites in the business today. They take their jobs and their roles as journalists seriously and treat the subject with some degree of integrity.  RPS will never give a numerical score, and they will never even do a review--what they will do is cover their experience with the game over different lengths of time for a number of weeks, beginning with a "first impressions" and ending with a kind of "here's what I think."  They usually include some "let's play..." kind of material in the interim.

 

This is why I only ever bother with these two sites any more.

Reply #102 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Tridus, reply 89
Neoseeker's review is up too. 9/10, editors choice. This one is so positive it's hard to figure out how all the reviewers are all talking about the same game
It looks like rossanderson's true identity has been revealed! :rofl:

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Reply #103 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting surlybob, reply 102
It looks like rossanderson's true identity has been revealed!

Wait are you suggesting that Rune_74 and Rossanderson48 are the same person?

Heresy!

 

Reply #104 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Dethedrus, reply 103

Quoting surlybob, reply 102It looks like rossanderson's true identity has been revealed!
Wait are you suggesting that Rune_74 and Rossanderson48 are the same person?

Heresy!
Let's just say that I'd like to see one of them post while the other is drinking a glass of water! (I keed, I keed)

Reply #105 from Elemental Forums Top

Again though remember a review is only an opinion and we ALL have different opinions. This is why I never take much stock in reviews. Now if alot of reviews give something a SUPER low score I will approach with caution, but at the same time there have been a few games that places like IGN gave 6's or 7's that I found to be enjoyable and worth the money to play through.

Reply #106 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting surlybob, reply 104



Quoting Dethedrus,
reply 103

Quoting surlybob, reply 102It looks like rossanderson's true identity has been revealed!
Wait are you suggesting that Rune_74 and Rossanderson48 are the same person?

Heresy! Let's just say that I'd like to see one of them post while the other is drinking a glass of water! (I keed, I keed)

 

That would be like suggesting that you and all the other frothing at the mouth posters are the same...Notice I never said I agreed with the 9 you however hate for the sake o f hating.

Reply #108 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Rune_74, reply 106
That would be like suggesting that you and all the other frothing at the mouth posters are the same...Notice I never said I agreed with the 9 you however hate for the sake o f hating.

You're right...  Elemental is an absolutely flawless game with nary a problem and only a "hater" could do anything but foam at the mouth with joy over it.

Oh wait...

Reply #109 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Dethedrus, reply 108

Quoting Rune_74, reply 106That would be like suggesting that you and all the other frothing at the mouth posters are the same...Notice I never said I agreed with the 9 you however hate for the sake o f hating.
You're right...  Elemental is an absolutely flawless game with nary a problem and only a "hater" could do anything but foam at the mouth with joy over it.

Oh wait...


That is a horrible oversimplification and exaggeration.

He never said there weren't problems...but there is much hate and many haters who are grossly unjustified in their hate.

Reply #110 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Dethedrus, reply 108



Quoting Rune_74,
reply 106
That would be like suggesting that you and all the other frothing at the mouth posters are the same...Notice I never said I agreed with the 9 you however hate for the sake o f hating.


You're right...  Elemental is an absolutely flawless game with nary a problem and only a "hater" could do anything but foam at the mouth with joy over it.

Oh wait...

 

Easy to do that huh?  I noticed anything by you is all about how bad it is, how bad the launch was, nothing else.  So in other words, useless.  Thos are all known things....repeating them over and over will notmake them more true.  Add some areas to improve, talk about what to do next....don't dwell on the negative because it solves nothing.  And yes, constant hate posts makes you look like your frothing at the mouth, sorry.

Reply #111 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Rune_74, reply 106
That would be like suggesting that you and all the other frothing at the mouth posters are the same...Notice I never said I agreed with the 9 you however hate for the sake o f hating.
I said I was joking. Your defensive reaction and another mouthbreather with the same bad grammar popping up to attack me makes me wonder, though..

Reply #112 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Poo-flinger, reply 107

# Site Name
# Score
# WWW Link
 

Gameenema.com

6/10

www.gameenema.com/2.shtml
build a reputation first then your reviews count. No offense but your sites first review means it doesn't hold much credibility. that being said I glanced it over and its not too bad. Now write 20 more and then you're in business.

Reply #113 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Rune_74, reply 110
Easy to do that huh?  I noticed anything by you is all about how bad it is, how bad the launch was, nothing else.  So in other words, useless.  Thos are all known things....repeating them over and over will notmake them more true.  Add some areas to improve, talk about what to do next....don't dwell on the negative because it solves nothing.  And yes, constant hate posts makes you look like your frothing at the mouth, sorry.

Perhaps you need to pay better attention then.

Yes, I'm more than slightly down on Elemental.  The launch was badly botched and the game is missing far too many key elements to be considered ready for retail.  This is a mid to late stage beta, pure and simple.

But the key problem is that you equate reasonable anger (say with being charged $50 for a more than moderately unfinished game) with hate.  Classifying people who are vocal about their unhappiness as "haters" is a solid straw man argument...  you can just lump us all into that unpleasant appellation and dismiss everything we say.

By the same token, I've posted in quite a few of the suggestion threads.  If my only goal was to vent this great rage you believe I have, why would I even bother?

Honestly, I'm not sure why I debate with you my friend.  You've made it clear that Elemental is the next best thing to Slurm™ (now in Extra Chunky style!) and that any reasonable level of unhappiness with the current state of the game is UNREASONABLE.  "Don't worry, they'll keep working on it" is great...  but starting at a state 6 months prior to a stable release version means a lotta work for the dev team before we start seeing the game we should have gotten on day 1.

Reply #114 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Dethedrus, reply 113



Quoting Rune_74,
reply 110

Honestly, I'm not sure why I debate with you my friend.  You've made it clear that Elemental is the next best thing to Slurm™ (now in Extra Chunky style!) and that any reasonable level of unhappiness with the current state of the game is UNREASONABLE.  "Don't worry, they'll keep working on it" is great...  but starting at a state 6 months prior to a stable release version means a lotta work for the dev team before we start seeing the game we should have gotten on day 1.

I was fine with everything else you wrote until this vomit at the end which took away anything else you said.  If you guys feel the need to whine and cry about the bad launch on and on why not just make one thread where you guys can hold each other and wail in dispare?  I have said the launch sucked, I just don't go around every thread repeatingit like some of you.

Reply #115 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Rune_74, reply 114
I was fine with everything else you wrote until this vomit at the end which took away anything else you said.  If you guys feel the need to whine and cry about the bad launch on and on why not just make one thread where you guys can hold each other and wail in dispare?  I have said the launch sucked, I just don't go around every thread repeatingit like some of you.
You post like he just called your mother ugly or something. What's your deal? Why do you only post to whine about other peoples posts? Lots of us have contributed to genuine help threads and defended the game against genuinely unreasonable gripes. What have you contributed? Give me a link.

Reply #116 from Elemental Forums Top

Please FOCUS on reviews here guys ,  reviews 4 hugz!   :smitten:

Reply #119 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Poo-flinger, reply 118

Quoting dragoaskani, reply 112
Quoting Poo-flinger, reply 107
# Site Name
# Score
# WWW Link
 

Gameenema.com

6/10

www.gameenema.com/2.shtmlbuild a reputation first then your reviews count. No offense but your sites first review means it doesn't hold much credibility. that being said I glanced it over and its not too bad. Now write 20 more and then you're in business.
 

 

Lol - so only reviews that are up to your standards are added... whatever it is your thread - though you are basically censoring it. Nice.
Not my thread retard. I take back my small compliment.

Reply #120 from Elemental Forums Top

So to summarize: Someone named Poo-flinger is upset that his site Game Enema isn't being taken seriously.

...

:rofl:

Reply #121 from Stardock Forums Top

dragoaskani seems to think that gaming "journalists" from big sites have some special skills that make their reviews more relevant than anyone else's.

Gimme a break. It's probably the opposite since the publisher ad revenue they generate makes their credibility suspect compared to a 100% independent reviewer.

IGN is a major gaming review site so their reviews are automatically more credible, right?

Credible Review Site

Oh wait...

Reply #122 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting fatindian, reply 121
dragoaskani seems to think that gaming "journalists" from big sites have some special skills that make their reviews more relevant than anyone else's.

Gimme a break. It's probably the opposite since the publisher ad revenue they generate makes their credibility suspect compared to a 100% independent reviewer.

IGN is a major gaming review site so their reviews are automatically more credible, right?

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Oh wait...

Games aimed at completely differnet target markets (on different hardware with different abilities and control schemes) get judged based on different criteria? Oh the horror!

Next thing you know they'll tell me that cook books and fantasy novels don't use the same ranking criteria either! 8C

Reply #123 from Elemental Forums Top

Let's be fair here.  All we can do at this point is to average the reviews thus far and give it a grade.  So let's see:

 

Neoseeker: .90

1 Up: .77 (C+)

Out of 8: .625 (5/8)

GameEnema: .6 (6/10)

 

Average = .72 (C -)

Reply #124 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Tridus, reply 122

Quoting fatindian, reply 121dragoaskani seems to think that gaming "journalists" from big sites have some special skills that make their reviews more relevant than anyone else's.

Gimme a break. It's probably the opposite since the publisher ad revenue they generate makes their credibility suspect compared to a 100% independent reviewer.

IGN is a major gaming review site so their reviews are automatically more credible, right?

Reduced 24%Original 1667 x 1798

Oh wait...

Games aimed at completely differnet target markets (on different hardware with different abilities and control schemes) get judged based on different criteria? Oh the horror!

Next thing you know they'll tell me that cook books and fantasy novels don't use the same ranking criteria either!

The point I'm making is that all these big sites ultimately use arbitary numbers to assign a grade to games. Their writing skills aren't any better than independent reviewers, and they generally have less time to review games since they are on strict deadlines. Couple that with the fact that their main source of revenue is from ads (from game publishers) and it makes for an unreliable combination. 

It's stupid to dismiss independent game reviewers just because they don't have as many reviews as professional game sites.