Nick81
18-06-2006, 09:42 PM
If, like me, you are a Sensi Soccer fan then no doubt you are aware of the most recent effort to update the game, in the just-released-in-time-for-the-World-Cup Sensible Soccer 2006.
You might also know about Eurogamer's glowing 9/10 review of the game. (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=65134)
Yet the comments section of Eurogamer reveal much discontent (http://www.eurogamer.net/article_discussion.php?article_id=65134&comment_start=100) - and hint at deletions of comments that were critical of the game.
And then I was forwarded this link: an article by Stuart Campbell on the Great Sensible Soccer Swindle. (http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/swiz2/swiz2.htm)
It appears that Sensible Soccer 2006 was rushed out, unfinished, for the World Cup - and, in contrast to Eurogamer's review, is actually a total calamity riddled with bugs and glitches that they never once mentioned. Stuart Campbell also notes that the game engine is based on Codemasters' failed Club Football series - despite assurances that the games was "all-new".
As Mr. Campbell also notes,
"Your reporter draws no conclusions or parallels between this and the fact that Eurogamer was the first publication to review Sensible Soccer 2006. And first by quite some distance, at that - in fact, the review was published early enough that, should it happen to produce a favourable score and/or some good quotes, there'd be just enough time to get them included on box stickers, promotional materials and adverts. That this very thing then went on to happen is, your reporter feels sure, merely a coincidence and in no way suspicious."
Anyway, just thought any Sensi, or even non-Sensi, fans would want the full story.
You might also know about Eurogamer's glowing 9/10 review of the game. (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=65134)
Yet the comments section of Eurogamer reveal much discontent (http://www.eurogamer.net/article_discussion.php?article_id=65134&comment_start=100) - and hint at deletions of comments that were critical of the game.
And then I was forwarded this link: an article by Stuart Campbell on the Great Sensible Soccer Swindle. (http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/swiz2/swiz2.htm)
It appears that Sensible Soccer 2006 was rushed out, unfinished, for the World Cup - and, in contrast to Eurogamer's review, is actually a total calamity riddled with bugs and glitches that they never once mentioned. Stuart Campbell also notes that the game engine is based on Codemasters' failed Club Football series - despite assurances that the games was "all-new".
As Mr. Campbell also notes,
"Your reporter draws no conclusions or parallels between this and the fact that Eurogamer was the first publication to review Sensible Soccer 2006. And first by quite some distance, at that - in fact, the review was published early enough that, should it happen to produce a favourable score and/or some good quotes, there'd be just enough time to get them included on box stickers, promotional materials and adverts. That this very thing then went on to happen is, your reporter feels sure, merely a coincidence and in no way suspicious."
Anyway, just thought any Sensi, or even non-Sensi, fans would want the full story.