25th July 2003, 8:43 AM
Quote:You think? Then we're lucky they cover PC then.
They sure do review a lot of games in those issues I have, but its a very small number of pages of the reviews... most pages are a Nintendo Power-like focus on strategy guide pages and stuff...
You've never actually read a single issue of EGM, have you? They devote many two, three pages to cheats/strategies, with most of the pages going toward previews and articles. Your ignorance shines through yet again.
Quote:It doesn't sound like that to me.
Wherein lies the problem.
Quote:They aren't bad, so I don't know what reviews you have been reading...
You just don't know what a good review should look like.
Quote:So what, exactly, should it have said?
It should have started off with a brief introduction to the game and then gone on to explaining the main parts of F-Zero (i.e. graphics, controls, sound, "fun factor", etc.) without just dwelling on a single aspect of it (which Gamespot did). After the reviewer has gone into detail about the gameplay and the intricacies of the game (which Gamespot failed to do), you'd have a final paragraph summarizing how the reviewer felt about the title. That is basically what should have been done.