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16:14, 23rd Nov 2015
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Ugh. I had a medium length review but got deleted since I left it in the message box for too long while my Hive account logged out.
Anyway, list summary:
- The maps are average to easily above average in scenery and aesthetics. Nice choice of custom downloaded content and you've done a decent job with doodad placement, height leveling, and tiles all around - it captures a nostalgic WC feeling even though I haven't played WC1
- The cinematics are well made; strong points are the camera work and music
- The story is engaging and quite interesting, but may have some lore issues that I don't know about
- The varied gameplay between missions (RTS, Escape, RPG) keeps the campaign fresh, but sometimes the pacing can be a little slow - specifically mission three where it's time consuming to find the (!) for the quests with iseedeadpeople off
- AI works well so far
- The spelling throughout is actually quite good, but the sentence structuring is definitely off in many places. It's not a major issue but some people could have trouble understanding very few parts - though I understand the dialogue
- There is no option to skip cinematics, even if a player watched it already. It's annoying to have to rewatch them unwillingly each time you lose a mission.
- Difficulty seems good so far
Anyway, I don't see any rules broken. Map approved, no rating at the moment.
Good job.
ap0: Rejected
15:29, 5th Oct 2009
Linaze: Okay well, I've played many campaigns in my days, unfortunately, few have been really good, now this, taking place during the first war and everything, I hoped would be an exception, but it really isn't.
First of all, the cinematics were boring as all hell and them alone almost made me lost any interest I had in this campaign. I think the main problem I had with the cinematics were the camera work, some cameras stayed still for like 5 seconds making it very stiff, there weren't very much movement going on either also contributing to the stiffness, also the poor English didn't make it any better, but we'll get to that later.
Furthermore, the terrain was rather bland, the tile variation wasn't so good and certain areas could've used more environmental doodads to look less dull.
I'd also like to add that this campaign wasn't at all that entertaining, take chapter one for example, where you need to escape the prison, I just ran around like a fool not knowing where to go and I got killed, on my second try, however, I managed to get out of the prison, but it was rather hard, both to survive, but also to know in which direction you should go.
Like I mentioned before, there were several grammar and spelling errors, and some sentences were so grammatically incorrect it was hard to know what it meant, it also made the cinematics a little worse.
For a few minor sidenotes, some of your quests could've been merged to make the questlog look less messy (I'm mainly referring to the one which objective is that your hero must survive). Also, if this takes place during the First War, why are there Fel Orcs? These didn't come before The Frozen Throne era.
Anyways, despite all I said, this campaign isn't too bad, even though it needs a large amount of polishing and so on.
Currently, I'm not going to approve this, but keep working, both on the things I mentioned, but I'm sure if you look in the user comments you've received, you'll find some constructive things there as well.
Oh, I'd also like to add that I actually didn't play trough the entire campaign, but playing only the first few missions was enough for my review.
SCN:
Ugh. I had a medium length review but got deleted since I left it in the message box for too long while my Hive account logged out.
Anyway, list summary:
- The maps are average to easily above average in scenery and aesthetics. Nice choice of custom downloaded content and you've done a decent job with doodad placement, height leveling, and tiles all around - it captures a nostalgic WC feeling even though I haven't played WC1
- The cinematics are well made; strong points are the camera work and music
- The story is engaging and quite interesting, but may have some lore issues that I don't know about
- The varied gameplay between missions (RTS, Escape, RPG) keeps the campaign fresh, but sometimes the pacing can be a little slow - specifically mission three where it's time consuming to find the (!) for the quests with iseedeadpeople off
- AI works well so far
- The spelling throughout is actually quite good, but the sentence structuring is definitely off in many places. It's not a major issue but some people could have trouble understanding very few parts - though I understand the dialogue
- There is no option to skip cinematics, even if a player watched it already. It's annoying to have to rewatch them unwillingly each time you lose a mission.
- Difficulty seems good so far
Anyway, I don't see any rules broken. Map approved, no rating at the moment.
Good job.
ap0: Rejected
15:29, 5th Oct 2009
Linaze: Okay well, I've played many campaigns in my days, unfortunately, few have been really good, now this, taking place during the first war and everything, I hoped would be an exception, but it really isn't.
First of all, the cinematics were boring as all hell and them alone almost made me lost any interest I had in this campaign. I think the main problem I had with the cinematics were the camera work, some cameras stayed still for like 5 seconds making it very stiff, there weren't very much movement going on either also contributing to the stiffness, also the poor English didn't make it any better, but we'll get to that later.
Furthermore, the terrain was rather bland, the tile variation wasn't so good and certain areas could've used more environmental doodads to look less dull.
I'd also like to add that this campaign wasn't at all that entertaining, take chapter one for example, where you need to escape the prison, I just ran around like a fool not knowing where to go and I got killed, on my second try, however, I managed to get out of the prison, but it was rather hard, both to survive, but also to know in which direction you should go.
Like I mentioned before, there were several grammar and spelling errors, and some sentences were so grammatically incorrect it was hard to know what it meant, it also made the cinematics a little worse.
For a few minor sidenotes, some of your quests could've been merged to make the questlog look less messy (I'm mainly referring to the one which objective is that your hero must survive). Also, if this takes place during the First War, why are there Fel Orcs? These didn't come before The Frozen Throne era.
Anyways, despite all I said, this campaign isn't too bad, even though it needs a large amount of polishing and so on.
Currently, I'm not going to approve this, but keep working, both on the things I mentioned, but I'm sure if you look in the user comments you've received, you'll find some constructive things there as well.
Oh, I'd also like to add that I actually didn't play trough the entire campaign, but playing only the first few missions was enough for my review.
I will back some hours later.
