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and the same people that convinced me to buy Star Control III with 85%+ reviews... when it was a pile of stinking feces.
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SC3 was hardly that bad. It was nowhere near as good as SC2, but that doesn't mean
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Not to mention that they unanimously gave Civ IV 90%+ reviews *at release*, when it 1) was unplayable on non-Nvidia cards,
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It was only a subset of ATI cards where the game wouldn't start, and in many cases it was a matter of Microsoft's DirectX 9.0c install routine not properly updating the drivers.
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2) regularly crashed after at most 2 hours,
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I never experienced any crashes that I would consider regular. Even so, one crash every two hours is extremely low for any kind of game.
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3) gradually slowed to below 1FPS after playing for "too long",
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Do you have the recommended 512 MB of RAM? You'd probably want at least 1 GB to prevent slowdowns.
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and 4) allowed you to get any city from any AI at any time through an easy diplomacy exploit (I found that bug *after* their 1-month patch).
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It's a single-player game, so just don't use that exploit.