Talk:Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Tomcat7 (talk · contribs) 09:53, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

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Overall very good but here are some comments:

• "developed by Headfirst Productions and published by Bethesda Softworks, in conjunction with 2K Games, for the PC and Xbox systems." - suggest "developed by Headfirst Productions, and published by Bethesda Softworks with 2K Games, for the PC and Xbox systems."
• Also: PC means all operating systems?
• Suggest adding reference that it was influenced by a game or contains elements of a particular game
• Close paraphrasing:
  • Original text: the earth recreates exactly what took place in innsmouth based on the writings in jack's journal which were discovered in 1924 check here for the latest call of cthulhu downloads
  • This text: he has witnessed the game is supposed to be based on the writings in jack's journal which were discovered in 1924 edit gameplay the game's entirely hud less first person
• "and the development of the PS2 version was cancelled." add reference, and why they cancelled it?
• Ref 6 seems to be a forum post, thus unreliable. Ref 8 is dead.
• Ref 7 leads to the main page and I can not find any archives. Can you replace the refernece?--Tomcat (7) 10:37, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

I absolutely have no idea what "the earth recreates exactly what took place in innsmouth based on the writings in jack's journal which were discovered in 1924 check here for the latest call of cthulhu downloads" means. The PS2 version was obviously cancelled because of all the development hell the game went through, but it's funny - GR claims it exists, "based on 1 review" (no, it doesn't exist). It's not forum, it's Usenet - Andrew Brazier is asking alt.horror.cthulhu what they would like to see in a Mythos based game (the original idea was to make a Quake-like "All Action Shooter game", and it's there where they got an idea of a detective-ish "First Person Horror Adventure Shooter" - to quote Brazier himself). --Niemti (talk) 17:26, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

IGN article was not archived, and IGN deleted all articles about this game from before 2002 - of this interview, only the gallery remains. It's kinda sad and GameSpot-ish. --Niemti (talk) 17:43, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Hello? --Niemti (talk) 18:10, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Oh, it was quick :D --Niemti (talk) 18:13, 31 October 2012 (UTC)