RIFT coverage is starting to seep through including some reviews. Here’s a round-up of the RIFT action so far:
- Interview with Scott Hartsman on Massively where he discusses the launch. Not sure what servers Massively were on but on our server Blightweld the queues were terrible for over a week and certainly were not better the day after the headstart as indicated in the interview. The official forums were also bombarded with queue complaints from all servers for over a week.
- 21 Days in Telara – GamePro (no score but further impressions)
- Gameover.gr – 9/10
- NzGamer- 9/10
- GameReactor – 9/10
- GameStar - 87%
- CheatcodeCentral – 86%
- GamersHell – 85%
- Eurogamer – 80%
- Gameblog.fr – 80%
- Eurogamer.it – 70%
Some of the reviews that have appeared have been written a little too early for my liking to get a full impression of the game. TRION had set a review embargo for just after the game’s launch but I think that should have been set to be longer as there is no way you can get a review of a game such as RIFT done properly in such a short space of play time. This is however a problem with the videogame industry as a whole with sites trying to race each other to get the first review up.
I expect we’ll see more reviews this week and these are the ones I would pay attention to becuase by this point most reviewers would have either got to a high enough level or maxed out if they have been putting in the time.
