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IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer Maddox Games.

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Old 05-09-2011, 11:49 PM
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I get paid by the word!..
...You must be pretty rich.

Just kidding, I think it was a fair article.
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Old 05-10-2011, 01:17 AM
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...You must be pretty rich.

Yeah, come talk about it over a cold bottle of Krug on my luxury yacht in Fort Myers marina. Actually, I build walls of text for free....More fool me.

Just kidding, I think it was a fair article.
Thank you, I appreciate the kind words.
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Old 05-10-2011, 01:04 PM
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What a great review. I think you were fair yet accurate. After a modest amount of game time, I feel that you hit the nail right on the head.
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Old 05-10-2011, 01:47 PM
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Very nice review, I think it honestly conveys the state of the sim now while appropriately focusing on what it will be in the future.

The prose is nice, but for the sake of readability you absolutely need to add more paragraph breaks!
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Old 05-10-2011, 02:32 PM
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Decent article, even though my eyes hurt now. Make sure you adjust the layout a bit for the true review in a bit.

On a sidenote, you may want to reconsider the point about spawning a sales boost as far as hardware is concerned.
Given that you are talking about a product for a niche market that already had two launches absolutely gone wrong, I doubt that the boost on hardware sales will be even marginally noticeable at best over a foreseeable timeframe - that part is leading the review ad absurdum a bit imho.

Just my 10c though.
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Old 05-10-2011, 02:35 PM
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I stopped reading at "...fuel-trucks and bowsers whizzing around...". Makes it sound like there's an SP game worthy of the name, all full of life and goodies and immersion.

There isn't. The game, when it doesn't crash or lock-up, is utterly sterile. The SP campaign isn't a campaign, it's a bunch of very shoddy single missions strung together. And strung together badly.

Maybe your review/preview goes on to mention that but, like I say, I stopped reading it when it began to give a very false impression.
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Old 05-10-2011, 02:55 PM
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I stopped reading at "...fuel-trucks and bowsers whizzing around...". Makes it sound like there's an SP game worthy of the name, all full of life and goodies and immersion.

There isn't. The game, when it doesn't crash or lock-up, is utterly sterile. The SP campaign isn't a campaign, it's a bunch of very shoddy single missions strung together. And strung together badly.

Maybe your review/preview goes on to mention that but, like I say, I stopped reading it when it began to give a very false impression.
gotta admit this guys right, it really badly put together, although the aircraft models are groundbreaking, the terrain and textures are rigbreaking.

and thats not a campaign, its an unplayable pixel dump of heaving lag and sound anomalies.

still love flying over the channel though
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Old 05-10-2011, 03:12 PM
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I think that is more or less a result of the engine being so badly optimized, that even people with identical hardware get different results.

I could not claim having any problems with either of the campaigns performancewise on my just about med-specs rig, so that would possibly show if I did a review. Definately worth correcting in the article though before too many people get the wrong impression.
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Old 05-10-2011, 03:24 PM
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" I have waxed lyrical about the beauty of the game, and it's potential"

its potential, not it's potential... grammar guys, grammar...

Fair article btw, uh, and where do I send my optician bill?
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Old 05-10-2011, 03:29 PM
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" I have waxed lyrical about the beauty of the game, and it's potential"

its potential, not it's potential... grammar guys, grammar...

Fair article btw, uh, and where do I send my optician bill?
It's. The comma is a possessive, in English english, at least.
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