Not Just a Game, A Symptom

User Rating: 8.3 | Warlords Battlecry III PC
The critical reception of Warlords Battlecry III has displayed some of the shallow mentality of the modern gaming world. Here we have a game that has many of the qualities of a great RTS - lots of individualized units and factions, tonnes of strategic potential, attention to detail, an innovation single-player game - but it has been blacklisted and underrated by the gaming media for one primary reason: THE GRAPHICS ARE NOT CURRENT EDGE. To which I must reply: so what? Don't we constantly admonish that substance is more important than flash, and then we turn around and demand all the latest visual effects? And really, who can AFFORD the cutting edge of PC games nowadays? You have to sell your car to do so.