Reviews exist so that you know how to spend your money. If they are free, all you lose is time. Most of those games are terrible too, so what would be the point of Gamespot slamming tons of free games?AtomicTangerine

IGN reviews TV shows too.....and they are free.....

some of these free games should be reviewed....deffinetly Battlefield Heroes, since that is rather large budgeted.

Trackmania too....Eurogamer reviewed it and it got a 9 their.

Some people dont need to be handfed. Some people like freedom in games, to do what they want how they want. That is why sandbox games reign supreme. Just wait, Spore will probably get some good reviews as well, being the god-of-all-sandbox games. Some people dont like walking down that 1 line in a game, a path you can only walk so many times before you have everything on that path memorized.

A sandbox game allows your own creativity to reign supreme. You dictate the terms, you control the entertainment like no other game. That's not to say linear games arent fun, sometimes a good story-oriented linear game is something i want. Othertimes not so much.

Tolwan

what your describing only pertains to certain types of Sand Box games.

what your describing is in fact spore, along with the Sims, Cim City...etc....

but it is not GTA.....games like spore are sandbox games because they have little no structure to them at all...you dont get objectives in the Sims for example...you just go at your own pace, and do what you want to do. You are never told what to do in those games.

But that doesnt apply to games like GTA...sure you may have a lot things to do on the side..you have races, mini games, dates and so on...but the core structure of the game is still rather linnear.

Aliblabla2007 pulls out his list of 10 most important things in an RTS!

Gameplay - Dawn of War 2, Dune 2 clones are much less interesting to me in that respect.

Balance - Starcraft 2 by far.

Graphics - Dawn of War 2 with ease.

Environmental Interactivity - Even CoH (2006 title) had better physics than "barrels rolling down a ramp". DoW2 takes this by a light year.

Multiplayer - As a result of the superior balance, Battle.Net and faction variety, Starcraft 2 takes it easily.

Faction Variety - Starcraft 2 obviously.

Faction Content - ? We don't know yet. Relic has not announced all the races for Dawn of War 2.

Sound - Dawn of War 2, again.

Campaign - Starcraft 2, the only Relic games with particularly good campaigns are the Homeworld games.

Skirmish - Tie.

Both sides have 4 advantages each, 1 is a tie, and 1 has yet to be decided.

Since Aliblabla2007 does not care for multiplayer (cross one off for Starcraft, making it 4 for DoW2 vs 3 for SC2), he votes for Dawn of War 2!

Though he will still anticipate Starcraft 2.

aliblabla2007

its not really fair to throw graphics in their...one is a high end game, and the other isnt.....if you want to balance it out....you could always throw art style in their.

I also disagree about sound...Blizzard games always have much better diolougue and music.

Either Las Vegas, Tokyo, or Chicago (cause thats where i live, lol.)TheDarkDisciple

Las Vegas has already been done....one of the san andres cities was obviously based off it.

they need to do something like Moscow next...it would be a very big change of scenry...Moscow seems like a nice place for a GTA game given all the organized crime.

It wouldnt get any racism complaints either, since their are no African Americans or Latin Americans in Moscow, lots of people from Eastern Asian decent.

yeah, the lead is most likely the 360 version....

what I hatted about the PC BIA games is that the controls were obviously made for consoles....and the game was really mainstream in its design, and always felt like it could have been a lot more.

The worst for me though, were the designs of the levels.....they were always designed with exacly two paths to go to. at any time.....this is more than most shooters but...you really only had one way to go in BIA...since the other was always suicidal.

I dont know if it was the lmitation of the Xbox, but I felt that the BIA games always had unrealized potential.

Far Cry 2 disagrees with your graphics theory.And gameplay, well LBP and fable 2 disagree. Als as you can see the glider in the screen below in FC2 it might also have some goood Gameplay.

angelkimne

posting pictures of the PC version doesnt help your argument very much.