Worst of all, however, are the absolute bleep insane load times for the game. Even if everything else in the game were perfect, were as good as DoW, the load times would kill the game and make it unplayable. Loading is measured not in seconds, but in minutes. I, quite literally, pick a mission, and then go do something else while it loads. Pay my bills. Do my laundry. Eat dinner.
It takes over a minute - try staring at a blank screen for a minute and half some time - to load the **** mission map.
Battles are over twice the load time of the map screen. It takes me about three and a half minutes to load a battle. Even if it's one involving my hero, the enemy hero, and about 20 random bystanders, a tiny bit of scenery, and nothing else. Over three **** minutes! It's **** ridiculous. It's completely unacceptable, unbearable, and unplayable. I have no idea how this **** made it out the door and onto store shelves.
An exercise for you to drive it home: take out a stop watch, or a timer, or something similar. Pull up a graphic image or some sort - nothing too awesome or interesting - and full-screen it. Set the timer going for three and a half minutes, and just sit there and stare at the image on the screen. See how fun it is.
