Reviews

Our review system is here to let you know whats hot and whats not.

You can be sure that all reviewers are specialists in their genre (Medieval RTS, WW2 RTS etc.) and generally enjoy them.

Our reviewers have deliberately average PC's to show up any excess system demand. If there is, we will let you know.

Scoring System

All games will be reviewed in the following way:

1. The Factfile: Tells you what type of game it is, who made it, how much it costs, minimum specs and much more!
2. The Review: Contains a brief overview of the game as well as an in-depth look at some of the better and worse aspects of the game. Also contains plenty of screens
3. The Scores: All games will given an overall percentage based on scores in these five areas:

• Playability (Worth 35%) Generally how much fun we had playing the game. This is the most important area, hence the rather large segmant of marks!
• Perfomance (Worth 22%) Does the game flow like a river, or was a dam built? (How often does it crash etc?) If it doesn't work, then it won't score highly at all.
• Graphics (Worth 20%) How good the game looks. Do the units make us cry with happiness, or are they just tears of pain!
• Editor (Worth 18%) Any decent RTS has an editor. An editor dramaticaly increases the lifespan of the game. The editor must be easy to use, but also flexible. In our experience, games designers usually get this wrong!
• Sound (Worth 5%) Beethovens symphony or fingers on a blackboard. (Does the music bug us so much we have to turn it off?)

    4.  The game will be given its final percentage, along with an overall comment. The reviewers name can be found at the bottom.

This system is different from other reviewing sites as it takes into account other things such as online communities which really improve the lifespan and playability of a game. This is also the only site (that we know of) that takes into account performance and map editors in the final score. Two extremely important aspects of a game.