Up front: I don't play the game, nor have I bought it. The brouhaha over it in the non-technical, broad journalistic sites was both generally lazy and biased.

Up front: I don't play the game, nor have I bought it. The brouhaha over it in the non-technical, broad journalistic sites was both generally lazy and biased. I browse a couple dozen 'news' sites each day, and I know my news feed was full of major press sites slamming the game. Wired's review was utterly pathetic (rated 1 out of 10), and several large newspaper organizations were not too far behind in their criticism. Heck, I canceled my sub to Wired just because of that horrific review; I figure if they let that kind of crap slide onto the top of their main page, they've fallen far enough that I don't need to support them anymore. As far as the Tech press goes, however, they mostly criticized the product for it's lack of optimization, as evidenced by the bench-marking results that were all over the place.