I'm not sure why Stardock didn't kindly ask Gamespot (and other sites) to delay the review by a week with the current state of the game. A reviewer should review the build of the game as it is and not on any future promises. Some games (Age of Conan) promise "miracle patches" that fix everything wrong with the game that never materialize even months/years after, so you can't expect a reviewer to review a game on what it will or won't be in the future. But for multiplayer-heavy games,
sabbath519
If you want to play online you should come back in a week or two. Your experience would likely be better than it is right now. You'll probably spare yourself from some anger/distress too [e digicons]O:)[/e] . Overall the game plays well when you finally get into a match, but connecting to matches is much more of a pain than it should be.
Don't be in a huge rush to play online just yet as there are still connection issues to be fixed. It should get improved over the next few days/weeks, but right now it takes much longer than it should to find playable games and the connection issues detract a bit from the experience. But single-player works out quite well and is quite stable. Games tend to last about 30minutes in length and are quite 'action-packed' without much downtime.
yep same for me: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x0222d4ef attempted to read memory at 0x09dae000 Posted 3 different crash reports: Crash 1: after successfully connecting to a game I opened up the connection info screen and locked up/crashed 10 seconds later. Crash 2 & Crash 3: both crashed while attempting to connect while having connection info opened http://pastebin.com/m32557db2
Edit: found a more relevant thread: unhandled exception thread here: http://forums.demigodthegame.com/346325