Dear Future Gamer

I'm just writing a quick note to say how much I agree with Foobie's letter in FG52. Homeworld was actually an intellectually challenging game, played against what finally appears to be a properly adaptive Artificial Intelligence, whereas Tiberian Sun features the same moronic, cheating AI from C&C. Homeworld is lacking somewhat in the fact that there are only 16 missions and they're over very quickly, even though the storyline is engaging.

Tiberian Sun's only saving grace is that the storyline, while cheesy, is actually quite engaging, and this is the only thing that kept me even vaguely interested in a game which might have looked good three years ago, but just looked like a re-release (for 40 quid though!) on the Platinum label.

Well, as I work in the gaming industry, all I can say is Westwood must have plenty of money to throw about to get such good reviews. Don't get me wrong here, TS is going to sell loads, basically because it's from Westwood and it's got the C&C feel so Joe Public is going to buy the thing. This doesn't disguise the fact that the game is dated and dull as dishwater.

What surprises me is that you lot can give it such good reviews, and then attempt to claim that the game consists of anything more than C&C with some slightly prettier graphics.

Neil

FG: One man's meat is another man's poison. We actually got bored of Homeworld quicker than we thought we would and actually enjoyed Tiberian Sun more than we thought we would. On the whole we reckon TS is a better game, simple as that, and so we reflected our opinion in the scores we gave the games. You're perfectly entitled to disagree, but you're wrong.