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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
| Hammer & Sickle: Review @ Loaded Inc |
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Nival's Hammer & Sickle has been <a href="http://www.loadedinc.com/review.php?temp_view=review.php&id=633&action=part1" target="_blank">reviewed</a> at Loaded Inc. The score is 5/10, although I'm not exactly clear what the reviewer disliked, so here's the summary:<blockquote><em>I am a patient guy. I have spent many hours with a lot of titles over the years, many of which never pulled me in during the first few hours, but ultimately sunk their claws and left me feeling like I had spent my time wisely. In this case, I took the same philosophy, hoping that I would eventually find a silver lining in the experience. While I do not feel like the game was a complete waste of my time, I certainly do not feel like it was entirely worth the effort. In the end, Hammer and Sickle was just not fun for me. And for a game, that is not a good thing.</em></blockquote> |
Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:57 pm |
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Acleacius
King of the Realms
Joined: 24 Dec 2002
Posts: 453
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I see what you mean, he seems to have cut out a paragraph, it just doesnt seem complete.
I definatly think he means the difficulty level, it is very very hard game on the Default level of Normal.
A HUGE mistake on Nival's part they eliminated Easy Difficulty and added an Insane Diffiuclty as Hard.
So many people that enjoy a challenging game found themselves reloading, tring again at least 20 times (maybe up to 50 times) PER difficult area.
I can think of at least 20 of those areas, fairly easily, it was to put it midly a hair pulling experience. 
Nival could hae Easily boosted all these Negitive reviews for this game by 30% and sales by 50%, if they would NOT have set the Default difficulty to Hard and called it Normal.
It took me a week of Hell to find out about the Custom settings and how they were messed up as a Default setting, |
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Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:13 pm |
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Role-Player
Village Dweller
Joined: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 11
Location: Lisbon, Portugal |
It seems most reviews of Hammer & Sickle just end up being "Yeah, I didn't like it too" but sometimes any points concerning the game get lost or aren't properly explained. There's at least one case of a review (at Gamespot) which leads me to doubt the reviewer has played the game, or played enough of it.
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