Out of Eight Review up!

[spelk]

http://jaguarusf.blogspot.com/2009/06/ai-war-fleet-command-review.html

6/8 a decent enough score

The only thing lacking in the review itself, is probably one of the most important selling points of the game, and that is that the developer and the community here are close, and the game is in constant evolution based on community feedback. So his main gripe about map size has already been taken care of in a pre-release candidate and will be in the game "proper" very soon now. I don't think he mentioned the frequent free DLC coming out which ties in with the games rapid evolution. Still, he has plenty of good things to say about the game, excellent interface, excellent AI, adaptive strategy and variety of play.. all good things. Whether a multiplayer game browser is feasible I'm not sure, but if this community can be stressed as part of the whole AI War experience, then your multiplayer browser is essentially here. Or with the hamachi group, or the Xfire group, or through Impulse etc.

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Thanks for posting the link to the forums, spelk!  I've added a new Press and Player Reactions page on the AI War section that will aggregate quotes/links to all the reviews, and which will also feature some player comments, too.  I didn't want to bump the 1.006 release notice in favor of this review, so I didn't post this to the main news page, but I'm glad you made note of it in the forum.

Overall I was really happy with the review, too -- I would have hoped for a higher score on his scale, but what can you do, how he feels is how he feels.  He seems like one of the more critical blogging reviewers around, so the fact that the game fared as well as it did with him was great.

Thanks for your take on it, too -- that's really good to see.  There are half a dozen or more other reviewers who have the game and are planning to review it, but these things just take time with a game of this size!

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And now our review on Bytten has come out, too:  http://www.bytten.com/gamereview.php?id=352&name=AI%20War:%20Fleet%20Command

94% on that one, awesome score.

From the review:

"I can't recommend it any more highly to strategy fans and fans of space games in general. Innovative, absorbing and most importantly a hell of a lot of fun to play, AI War is the best indie game I've got my hands on so far in 2009."

[spelk]

Oh well done.. a decent review from one of the more long standing indie/casual game review sites.. top stuff!

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Thanks!