Eurogamer.se gives SimCity a perfect score....

Now i haven't played the game, but from what I hear, this is NOT a 10/10 game in anyone's view. Can anyone explain to me why eurogamer.se gives it a 10/10 and claims it to be early game of the year? Did this come with a large sum of money?

Link: http://www.eurogamer.se/articles/2013-03-04-recension-sim-city (its in Swedish so i had to translate it English, maybe the whole article in Swedish makes more sense...)

Because opinions.

@liquidprince: but isnt the game actively broken? and not even out in europe? i may be totally wrong, its why i asked

@slyspider: Some people are getting in to play. Its just one of those things if you're one of the lucky ones possibly he had a good experience with it. You really can only speak to your experience.

Is the game actively broken? No. The servers are a crap hole. But the game it self is just fine. And i can indeed see how someone would give it a high score. Or a low score.

As to it not being out, well they got a review copy and server to play on so theres that.

EA sent out review copies to editors before the game was out. Maybe they reviewed the game before it had been released to the public, when the servers were working fine because they weren't being overloaded.

Basically what this article says.

I dunno. I don't think anyone here could tell you what was going on in the mind of that reviewer when he gave it the score that he did. I mean his review should explain that right?

Eurogamer.se. EuroGAMEr.Se. EA GMES. EA GAMES. Follow the money.

I could see this game being really awesome with a lot of friends in a giant city.

being able to visit someone elses town and build parks all over seems broken.

oh crap i forgot about that

It's funny because there aren't any giant cities to be found in this game.

I think that's the issue right there.

I've never read a good review from eurogamer.* . They always seem to review based on the "general idea" of a game. So Sim City is popular so it's good.

After having played it a few hours today I can easily see how this game is the perfect game for certain players.

Give it a few days and they'll change it because of server issues.

I'm still not sold that we should be reviewing on launch day issues for an online game. Sure you can argue that maybe it should have been a single player game, but everything they did to design it was for a MP game.

Heck, single-player games have been released pretty broken too (every Bethesda game ever). Maybe it is because I am a longterm MMO player, but launch week woes are just part of the package with online games.

I like how "Game outlet has unconventional opinion, they must be paid off!" is now a thing.

It's not. It makes no sense for you to pay off one outlet, because now everyone looks at aggregate scores/general opinion. Even if one outlet gave them a high score compared to others, that would stand out among all the others and raise suspicion like it is now. It makes no sense for any of the parties involved to do it.

While I personally wouldn't give it a 10/10, I can definitely see why the reviewer thought it was worth that much. The whole article felt rather objective and certainly not a case of "paid to grade well". He also mentioned the "Always online" DRM as a major issue for those of us who wants to play Sim City by ourselves, without the online community.

To me it seems like the reviewer jumped into this game the way I jump into a The Sims game, i.e "Here's a plot of land! Build, goof around, and have rather fun in a silly way!".

While I don't know how to speak nor read Swedish, something tells me that they liked the game. Just a hunch...

It is a pretty good game but it definitely isn't perfect; I've run into plenty of repeatable bugs so far. Overall though, it is very enjoyable. Perhaps my experience is colored by the fact that I've had almost no server stability problems.

And to everyone saying the game is dumbed down, you honestly have no clue. This game is far more challenging than SC4 so far.

Just me but could this game ever really get 10/10 now on general review systems purely because of their servers not working on day one. To stop people playing a single game because a feature in your game doesnt work classes that as a large problem. If it released completely fine then I could get behind a perfect score but as it did not I cant say its 10/10. And yes the servers are part of the game and should get rated and not excused because its day 1 release and thats the way it is, they chose this method so should perfect the method to consumers.

"Ja, Sim City är väldigt bra. Vi börjar där." Talk about great intro to a review there. I wrote better intros in school essays.

Yes, I'm sure EA was just throwing money at such an influential website as Eurogamer Sweden...

No such thing as a perfect score.

Just read their grade policy, according to that, 10/10 = means they recommend it to everyone.

Not that it's the second coming of god.

10/10 I haven't even had a second of gameplay after 3 hours...