At the same time as Bioware were working on Mass Effect 3, they were also working on Star Wars: The Old Republic. It shows, with the latter styling itself as an evolved version of World of Warcraft, mixing the best of Bioware’s single player titles with a vast and exciting universe. If you read our Old Republic review, you’ll know that there’s very little that I think we’d want to change (with the exception of that pesky install/download size), but there are indeed things that the developers could have brought over from Mass Effect, things which MMO developers everywhere could perhaps do with learning.
Let me tell you about my experience with downloading and installing Eudemons, it’s a remarkably similar story to the story I told about RODE last month and it’s just as frustrating. There are four options to choose from when downloading; you can download the .exe file directly from the developer, get the files via P2P or there are a couple of options involving torrents. The file itself is about a gigabyte, not too bad when you consider that the installation comes in at 3.2 gigabytes. So I tried the first option, it got to 800mbs (it took a long time, not because of my connection either) and became “interrupted.”
Every week I’m given a set of games to review and every week I spend quite a bit of time looking into those games. A review doesn’t only need to be a quick play through of a game – that’s something that you can get on Youtube - but an expert opinion on the pros and cons of playing that game, so for that you really need to know the origins of the game, where it comes from and what the developer wanted to achieve by creating that piece of software. Before even playing a game I know exactly what to expect from not only the first few hours, but from the game as a whole.
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