I just read Gamespy's ID 2004 review (I can't believe this BS) and I can't believe someone is willing to tell everyone "I don't know jack sh*t about sports gaming but I'm still reviewing them."
Read the review or just this part: "In an interesting move, while the rest of the console sports world heads towards more sim-like play, Inside Drive 2004 whips its car in the opposite direction and plays a lot looser and more arcade-like than it has in the past.
That tells me a few things and it's the same with most of these gaming sites:
1)The reviewer isn't qualified to review sports games. He/she does not know much about the sport to tell what's right and what's not. This is the reason why most reviews barely touch gameplay. They don't know what to write. Really, most of these reviews don't review gameplay. They mention that there is too much this and too little of that and their points usually don't make any sense. They inflate that to a few sentences and move on to franchise or menus which are easier. In this particular review the guy talks about how the jukes are inferior to Live and ESPN. True but that should be over with one sentence. He uses almost the whole gameplay section to that
2)98% of the reviewers have no idea what sliders are. Nobody even mentions them not to speak of actually using them. Sliders make a game! On top of that ID's sliders are the most simple yet effective of any sports game. My god, the dissing of sliders has to stop.
3)They don't care about the quality of the review. They just get over with it as fast as they can. In the case of ID 2004 no review has even mentioned team tendencies, player tendencies or the intelligence of the AI.
So far there have been two very good reviews of ID 2004. That would be IGN and Nextlevelgaming. Actual knowledge of the sport is shown and these are fair and intelligent reviews. Not cause they rate ID as a good game but cause of the content of the review. Unfortunately these two miss the AI of the game almost completely too (as the others did).
But there should be something done because of this. I know the guys can't possibly put any extensive time to sports games but all I'm asking is that sites would use persons who know something about these sports to write the reviews. And someone who cares whether the outcome is laughable or intelligent.
Read the review or just this part: "In an interesting move, while the rest of the console sports world heads towards more sim-like play, Inside Drive 2004 whips its car in the opposite direction and plays a lot looser and more arcade-like than it has in the past.
That tells me a few things and it's the same with most of these gaming sites:
1)The reviewer isn't qualified to review sports games. He/she does not know much about the sport to tell what's right and what's not. This is the reason why most reviews barely touch gameplay. They don't know what to write. Really, most of these reviews don't review gameplay. They mention that there is too much this and too little of that and their points usually don't make any sense. They inflate that to a few sentences and move on to franchise or menus which are easier. In this particular review the guy talks about how the jukes are inferior to Live and ESPN. True but that should be over with one sentence. He uses almost the whole gameplay section to that
2)98% of the reviewers have no idea what sliders are. Nobody even mentions them not to speak of actually using them. Sliders make a game! On top of that ID's sliders are the most simple yet effective of any sports game. My god, the dissing of sliders has to stop.
3)They don't care about the quality of the review. They just get over with it as fast as they can. In the case of ID 2004 no review has even mentioned team tendencies, player tendencies or the intelligence of the AI.
So far there have been two very good reviews of ID 2004. That would be IGN and Nextlevelgaming. Actual knowledge of the sport is shown and these are fair and intelligent reviews. Not cause they rate ID as a good game but cause of the content of the review. Unfortunately these two miss the AI of the game almost completely too (as the others did).
But there should be something done because of this. I know the guys can't possibly put any extensive time to sports games but all I'm asking is that sites would use persons who know something about these sports to write the reviews. And someone who cares whether the outcome is laughable or intelligent.
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