jex

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/soldner-sec.../528506p1.html

Well I've looked for some decent reviews but I didn't find one. I'm talking about Soldner: Secret Wars. It seems to look and play as badly as the demo did. I'm actually quite annoyed that they'd release such a POS - we don't need shoddy games developers. Thank god for demo's eh lol

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TG_Bear

It's really dissappointing. I followed this game from the early stages of development. I really had high hopes that it would turn out to be a great tactical shooter. I kinda looked at it like the next generation of Operation Flashpoint.

Oh well, thank God for JO.

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LOL

They even mentioned that annoying "Soldner" sound clip that plays every five seconds.

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leejo

I'm holding out for the mother of all disappointments. GR2.

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LOL

We don't even have to play the beta demo (ala Soldner) to know not to get our hopes up.

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LOWDRAG

they put the demo on the shelves as a retail product.. freaking unsat

jex

Yeah I had high hopes too. There I was praising it before it came out and now look at it. I'd rather tread in doggy-doo.

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Opus

Soeldner demo stunk--why they would ever put such a shoddy version out, is beyond me. Those of you that play JO--talk about night and day demo releases when you compare Soeldner to JO. The Soledner developers shot themselves in the foot with their substandard demo release, and never recovered.

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I read a bit on their forums during the beta demo "tryout" (never actually tried it since it didn't work). The game was in development for a long time (~2 years). I see JoWood as a small developer that hasn't put out a lot of A-quality games. The best I've probably seen from them lately is Silent Storm. They've previously done niche puzzle/simulation games like Traffic Giant (nice little game but never popular). So, they flunked in their first game in the FPS genre. I think it was a combination of inexperience (I flinch at their user interface design, both menus and in-game) and money. They wanted to shove an unrefined product out the door to start making money off a long development schedule thinking it would be good enough.