CONGRATULATIONS MM and SHRAPNEL!!

[1FSTCAT]

The review in PC GAMER of SEIV Gold looks HOT! CONGRATULATIONS!!

--Ed

[Richard]

Care to share http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

[Captain Kwok]

Ok...I can't seem to find this. Is it on the PC Gamer site or in the magazine?

[pathfinder]

Capt Kwok: The magazine. Nice review by William Trotter.

[Captain Kwok]

That's cool that it made it to print. I don't usually care much for game magazines though as I hate most of the games they seem to focus on.

Do they usually post the reviews on the website after?

[DirectorTsaarx]

In related news, the CD that comes with Computer Games magazine (issue 139, June 2K2) has the SEIV Gold demo on it...

[Instar]

PC Gamer dedicated a whole page to the review of SEIVG, and gave it a rating of 89%. 1% short of being an editor's choice, but thats life. Pretty major press, if you ask me. (he didnt mention drones, but did the other stuff)

[Gandalph]

I can post a scan of the article if requested. PC Gamer website is 1 month behind mag issue(I assume to entice people to Subscribe instead of getting it free).

[Atrocities]

Yes please post the article. Or at least hi-lights of it. Also, what month is it that PC game has the article in? April, May, or June. What page too? Thanks.

[disabled]

how much did the issue cost and is it still on shelves! I'm gonna buy it and frame it!

[pathfinder]

June 2002 issue, over the counter cost is $4.99 US dollars plus tax, page 60.

Enjoy! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Wardad]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by DirectorTsaarx:
In related news, the CD that comes with Computer Games magazine (issue 139, June 2K2) has the SEIV Gold demo on it...<hr></blockquote>

GREAT!!! That's how I started with SE3. It should bring in some more new blood.

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UPGRADES HAPPEN

[Gandalph]

Sorry, I've been off the board rebuilding my Win2k system. I'll get my scanner installed tomorrow and up a scan of the article (it's only 1 page).

[geoschmo]

Read the review. Looks good. A full page. Balanced, fair review. I think the author liked it even more than the rating it got, but those are geared more towards the typical gamer I think.

Still waiting for the first mention of PBW in one of these reviews. Ah well... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Geoschmo

[Richard]

Not surprising. The editors usually tweak down the scores on non mainstream games, and I venture that this was brought down due to it being a Gold Version and that there is a LOT of competition for the awards this month.

Plus we don't advertise with them http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif .

We had another game that got dropped barely below 90 because of the same issue a few years back.

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by geoschmo:
Read the review. Looks good. A full page. Balanced, fair review. I think the author liked it even more than the rating it got, but those are geared more towards the typical gamer I think.

Still waiting for the first mention of PBW in one of these reviews. Ah well... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Geoschmo<hr></blockquote>

[geoschmo]

Actually, from what the article said, they typically don't even review Gold Versions. But this one was good enough to deserve a review in their minds. And it said the Gold Version got a higher rating than the original SE4 IIRC.

Geo

Geoschmo

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[Richard]

Nope that's true also.

Dan Morris and Bill Trotter are two good men on their staff that I know fairly well. Bill has been fair to us for quite awhile and Dan helped us get BCT in the mag.

[Gandalph]

I take it that posting the article is no longer necessary.

They also said a couple of things that make you wonder.

"...you can assign competent AI "ministers" to control..." LOL

"...the very strong enemy AI..." LOL