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Captain_McCusker · 11-13-2002, 02:27 PM

Well, since the topic states it and I don't want to go somewhere else, and most importantly, more people will read it - I'll post my review here.

I got the game at 11AM EST today. Tried six times with 4 cold restarts to get the installer to work. Called EA and they told me what the problem was - rundll32 doesn't jive with the installer and therefore the registration code thingy doesn't show. Just turn off rundll32 and you're all set to install.

Ok, now I'm ready to play. I load the game, hit New Game, Hit Normandy, chose medium because I'm a wuss, and watched the movie. I was so excited that I was about to jump out of a plane that I didn't even listen to what they were saying. LOL

BUT THEN!!! It makes like it's loading the map for the first mission and then dumps me back to the main screen. WTF!?!?!? 10 times I've done this. The last 5 after talking to EA AGAIN!!! Guy told me that my version of my sound driver is known to cause problems... yeah, ok, what fucking ever!! I installed an update and tried again... and again... and again...

BTW, how come all of a sudden I have to use the task manager to shut every fucking thing off with 256 RAM, 64 VidRAM and 2Ghz? Is this game that much of a fucking hog that it does needs 99% of your resources at all times it's running? And what kind of idiot company releases a game the knowing there are so many bugs in it? Not to mention the fact that a patch came out the day before it was shipped... damn, I'm starting to turn into all the other complaining spammers... mad:

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Captain_McCusker is Offline Senior Member Posts: 563 Join Date: Jun 2002	11-13-2002, 02:27 PM Well, since the topic states it and I don't want to go somewhere else, and most importantly, more people will read it - I'll post my review here. I got the game at 11AM EST today. Tried six times with 4 cold restarts to get the installer to work. Called EA and they told me what the problem was - rundll32 doesn't jive with the installer and therefore the registration code thingy doesn't show. Just turn off rundll32 and you're all set to install. Ok, now I'm ready to play. I load the game, hit New Game, Hit Normandy, chose medium because I'm a wuss, and watched the movie. I was so excited that I was about to jump out of a plane that I didn't even listen to what they were saying. LOL BUT THEN!!! It makes like it's loading the map for the first mission and then dumps me back to the main screen. WTF!?!?!? 10 times I've done this. The last 5 after talking to EA AGAIN!!! Guy told me that my version of my sound driver is known to cause problems... yeah, ok, what fucking ever!! I installed an update and tried again... and again... and again... BTW, how come all of a sudden I have to use the task manager to shut every fucking thing off with 256 RAM, 64 VidRAM and 2Ghz? Is this game that much of a fucking hog that it does needs 99% of your resources at all times it's running? And what kind of idiot company releases a game the knowing there are so many bugs in it? Not to mention the fact that a patch came out the day before it was shipped... damn, I'm starting to turn into all the other complaining spammers... mad: