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Solving MMO review problems

To the tune of: Nina Nastasia – Our Discussion

As an MMO reviewer, I’ve felt both privileged (at occupying a niche few are equipped to explore) and also terrified (at a reviewer’s complete inability to perceive the whole game). As Quintin Smith found last week, and Ed Zitron found previously, reviewers, no matter how professional, can’t just hop back into an MMO when it’s been updated and hope to review it. Especially not, as those two found, when the audience they think they’re talking to isn’t the audience that actually reads and responds to the article. Here’s a putative structure for [more...]

Online Review Summary List

I thought I might as well have a list somewhere of all the reviews I’ve done; I’ll update this when new stuff appears online.

PC Format Hidden & Dangerous 2 Day of Defeat Evil Genius EverQuest II Empire Earth II Fate Freedom Force Vs The Third Reich Freelancer Galactic Civilisations Guild Wars Ground Control 2 Homeworld 2 Hidden & Dangerous 2 Sabre Squadron Hidden & Dangerous 2 Heroes of the Pacific Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Knights of Honor May Payne 2 Medieval Lords Neverwinter Nights: Premium Modules Praetorians Planetside [more...]

Ego Blogging

A few more of my 360 reviews and previews have popped up online:

Def Jam: IconBrian Lara CricketSuperman ReturnsBattlestations: MidwayShivering Isles (preview)