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Review: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (PC)
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Jakub: I’m baffled by the low user ratings you’ve gotten. You’ve put in a ton of effort and it shows. You divide the article with headings, some of them amusing, some of them not. The only complaint I have is that you make the usual rookie mistakes: you write in first person, you talk at the reader, and for some reason you capitalized every letter of the Iron Man heading. Just one question. What in the world is a Reviewer Tilt? I’ve never understood that and I wonder if anyone else does either.

Brandon: This is a solid, very well-written review. You provided lots of depth with good examples, and your article was easy to read. I also enjoyed your screenshot captions. Don’t worry about the length of your review, I think you were right on there. I think the reason why your score is so low is because the other entrants realize just how good your entry is, as this is a very good article!



21st Century Computing with Victorian-Era Tech
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Jakub: I laughed. When you're engrossed in an RPG or enjoying Pink Floyd concert footage you don't want to hear a wind tunnel whooshing on your desk. Possibly my favorite sentence of the entire competition.

JCal: I wasn't sure exactly what this feature was going to be about at first but the author managed to write something that got me thinking a bit differently on PCs and that's no small task.



Review – Scurge: Hive (NDS)
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Jakub: Rather decent! A bit too short and you do rely on first-person commentary like all rookies, but if you stop talking I/you/we/me and go into a little more depth, you’d have the makings of a solid reviewer. I’m not expecting a 2500 word review, but even a handheld game usually merits about 900-1000. Better to be concise than full of filler, however.



The Ideal Motherboard for Power Users
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Jakub: You organize the article very well and make sensible points. The difficulty is that many people may not take you seriously because of your grammar. Take the paragraph that starts with “Assuming that you got no problems with filling up the ram slots”. It isn’t very clear what you’re getting at there and your tone is rather unprofessional. Here’s how I’d write it, assuming I’m understanding your point:

Even if you’re lucky enough to find a motherboard that can run with memory in all four RAM slots without issues, try filling up all the PCI plugs. Take a standard motherboard, pop in a SLI or Crossfire setup, a Creative X-Fi for sound, Adaptec SCSI card, a video editing/TV tuner, and a wireless 802.11G adapter. The average system simply will not work with all its PCI slots used, assuming you can actually physically fit the cards in. Whether you fiddle with the bus master, adjust PCI latency, manually assign IRQs, or even wipe your hard drive and do a clean installation with the most stable drivers, your stability will always be compromised.

Quite a difference, no?

Brandon: Your article contains numerous grammatical errors that need to be fixed ASAP in my opinion. I like your idea of the perfect motherboard though, a legacy-free motherboard with passive cooling would be nice, although I’d replace the clear CMOS switch you mention with a simple button instead. ASUS has also begun integrating flash memory onto some of their higher-end mobos as well, this is similar to Intel’s Robson technology.