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Old 12-04-2012, 07:11 AM   #6
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In terms of review writing, saibot, I like your honesty and straightforwardness. Try to give more of an intro into the game, though, in terms of who you are, where you are in terms of setting, and why the game world is the way it is. With a bit more background, you give whoever reads your review the opportunity to decide for themselves if they like the scenario or not.

Also, try to be a bit more objective. Just because you hated the game doesn't mean other people necessarily will. If you read the review on the site, which also started out as a community review (written while the game was still protected), you'll see that the things you hated about the game were actually enjoyed by that reviewer. So don't be too quick to put people off. What you could really do is say, "this is what the game is like. I hated it becasue of X, Y and Z, but maybe you'll like it anyway".

Alternatively, some people write reviews who thoroughly like a game, and push it as being perfect and amazing, without mentioning any of the very real drawbacks that might put other people off.

So, nice review, but it would have been much better if you'd included more information and tried to be less biased. In terms of putting games on Abandonia, what you're trying to do is inform the player about the game's history and what it was like to play it at the time (of course, a really old game will be terrible in terms of graphics compared to, say, Call of Duty 4, but for the time perhaps it was really well made). In the end, you want to give the reader as much information as possible so that they can make up their own mind
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