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rob wrote:

> What they said was right on the money.  The average gamer will
> not like this title.  I can think of few people I know personally, if
> any, to whom I would give it to for Christmas.
>
> If you randomly picked100
> of PC Gamer's readers and let them play the game for a couple
> of hours, then had them rate it, I bet it would get some really high ratings
> and some really, really low ratings from frustrated / bored
> users who never "got it".  I think 70% is a fair estimate of the
> average rating those randomly selected users would give.
> That is the true test of such a rating.  They are trying to predict
> how well their average reader would enjoy the sim.
>
> rob.

But you're forgetting a lot with that assumption.  How about all
the positive things that GPL brought forth, like the physics
and the atmosphere of the game?  The article spent so
much time whining about the difficulty that I really don't
even see it as a review.  Sorry, but in CGW, in which
GPL got 4 stars out of 5, Gordon Gobles credited GPL
where it's due, yet also chatised it for being too
difficult and inaccessible.  That, IMO, is a much, much
better review.

Grimfarrow


