"Great multiplayer, poor single, needs some crash fixing"
341263
Ok it's been a month since the release, and after some massive patches, I crash a lot less, but there are indeed occasions when I do.
However, when it doesn't crash, the game is hella fun. Such an intense battle you can't feel from many other FPS. only if they fix these crash issues then the game deserves 4 stars. Single play is extremely boring and poor and I just beat it to get the guns unlocked from it.
3050744
Insane good multiplayer game! I am running this game on 3 monitors with eyefinity and crossfire. There where some few minor issues. But most of the issues are solved now, if you have any issues visit my blog for more info/help.

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4088131
Issues with length of time to play and inconsistent playing. App needs more work, quality needs improvement from current operation.
3231780
I downloaded and played the Demo.. I thought great, what a kicka$$ game.. The storyline is great, the graphics are awesome if your video card is compatible or Recognized by the game(Radeon 9700 is not).. If not MAJOR BUGS from slow windows inside the game to rough game play!!! It only took 15hrs to beat single player mode, Multi-player [smells].. You have to restart a new character every time you play or change servers..You lose your money and ship!!! SO much for progress.. My system XP2500+ Nforce 2 Radeon 9700 1GB 333DDR.. Save your money for something else!!!...
4102483
The game is definitely having a rough start.  But the game itself is amazing.  You'll never find a game that 100% of the people like but from my perspective this is one of the best MMOs in the past couple years.  Give it time, wait for the server issues to be resolved, do a free trial and see what you think.  Everyone who is having trouble has a right to be upset but rating the game poorly for temporary connectivity problems is disingenuous IMO.  Rate the game for the actual game, if you can't play it, don't rate it.

I'm not defending SE, they definitely dropped the ball but hopefully they can turn it around.
4638590
One man's lies was a game I was looking forward to. I wasn't "hyping it" just thought it looked fun.
My first 3 hours were great. Then it crashed. Then it crashed again. Then I realized the game was the same thing over and over and over.
3302824
First of all, yes I'm aware of the minimum system requirements, I'm running an Intel i5 3.3 ghz, on Windows 7 64bit, 8gb of ram, EVGA Nvidia Geforce 570 GTX with all new drivers installed and verified, including a bios update. I've contacted Ubisoft to troubleshoot and they've verified my system should be running the game fine. System temperatures are running within the normal operating ranges (verified with Everest, as well as Speccy). I also have a Corsair H80 GPU Liquid Cooler. I'm running on the lowest graphics settings, although I shouldn't have to, since my build runs Tera, Skyrim, BF3, all at the highest resolution.

The problem is, every 5-10 minutes, the game (after running smoothly without a hitch for those 5-10 minutes), crashes unexpectedly and inexplicably to the desktop. I can still hear the background voices and sounds of the Boston streets, but the program just stops responding and I have to Ctl+Alt+Del and end the program.

I bought the darn thing on PS3 just to play the game, and am pursuing a refund on the PC version. I've been on the Ubisoft forums, and there are a few who experienced the same issues. I'll install on a 32 bit windows system later on and see if I have the same problems. Really disappointed since I was looking forward to the game and it seems like it'd be fun. But the crashes make it unplayable, even after the first day patch, and the Thanksgiving patch.
1977330
Diablo III, unlike its predecessors, has resorted to using an always online DRM feature so that they can pursue online micro transactions.  The problem, which has now be revealed over and over, is that their service is not always going to be online.  In this case, their service is rarely online.  Two days after purchase, I have managed to play 20 minutes of time.

In a persistent, online world, this can almost be forgiven.  In what was, and likely will, remain a mostly single player experience, it is not.

The second issue is that since it requires a persistent connection, the performance of the game suffers badly.  Playing on a I5-750, 16gb of RAM, ATI 5850 was a stutter filled experience.  This is when I was playing ALONE.  I wasn't waiting on other players packets, I didn't need to sync with servers.  I was trying to enjoy a single player experience with a game that I have always played single player.  While the stuttering is not so bad that it's unplayable, it is jarring enough to mar what could be a decent game... that is, if you can actually get in to play it.

To say that this is one of the industries bigger let downs, might not be much of a stretch.  I am sadly thinking that this game will sit alongside other luminaries: Duke Nukem Forever, Battlecruiser 3000, Daikatana, as over hyped and substantially under delivering.
1552061
I purchased this game four months after launch because of the bugs I kept reading about. I read they had finally fixed the multiplayer bugs so I purchased it based on my love for BF3. Well, if this is what they consider fixed I'd hate to see what they consider broken. When the multiplayer works it's fun. Problem is it only works half the time. Rubberbanding, dropped sessions and non responsive controls. I would recommend avoiding this one on XBOX 360. Not sure how it's acting on the other platforms.
1436432
Works fine although multiplayer did not work for me, it said disc was unreadable. It might be my system, as the disc looks fine... but still disappointing!
1506809
We all know that this game is great, one of the best games ever made, there is absolutely no doubt about it.

What many don't know is that Rockstar has yet again done a very poor job beta testing this game before releasing it. I have had my xbox totally lock up on me after occasionally freezing during playing this game. These same very issues occur on the PS3 version of the game, where Rockstar actually created a patch fix that could be downloaded via the PSN network. At current time of this writing, there has been no such patch for the xbox 360 version.

At first the freezing up for me was occasional, once every couple of hours, not a huge deal. Then it became worse, and then actually wouldn't let me play at all, freezing up as soon as you were done loading a game. Even quickly loading a previous game save before it crashed would only work temporarily. At this point, it was only happening with this actual game, the freezing that is. I was not getting the "Red Rings of Death" that has so plagued the xbox 360. I called in to Microsoft xbox support, and they told me I had to send my console in to be repaired... again, I was not gettting the R.R.O.D. -- they were not going to charge me for the fix, I had an extended warranty on the unit anyway, I did previously have the RROD, about 1 year ago, but have played the 360 extensively after they "repaired" it then. Even playing GTA IV for the first 15 hours or so the game didn't crash even once! Then it started happening occasionally, then it just killed my 360!

This is a great game, but it is awful that Rockstar didn't beta test this game enough. And before anyone thinks this is just me, go and look it up on youtube and you will find TONS of videos of this game either freezing up or completely bricking xbox360s.. Rockstar also had the exact same issues occuring with the xbox360 version of Bully, which also was in the news a bit.

Note to Rockstar... please beta test your games better. Not just for the 360 but the PS3 too. Till then I am not buying anymore games from you guys, it isn't worth my time and aggravation, no matter how good the content may be. Again, remember the PS3 is suffering from very similar hardware failures as well, so we know it isn't completely the hardware itself, but the software crashing the consoles, and in my case BRICKING IT!
229277
I expect some glitches in software right after it is released, but the crash to desktop problems with this have been really bad so far.  I was expecting early adopter problems and hoped that I could get through a campaign with a crash or two, but to be able to actually finish it.  But after a dozen turns or so the thing just hits a CtD bug that makes it impossible to play it forwards.  I've updated drivers and fiddled with video and sound settings, but gotten nowhere so far.

Otherwise, it looks like a great game.

Added:  its a week later and still no resolution from CA on the nasty crash-to-desktop bugs.  CA definitely knows about them, there's threads all over their own forums about the CtD issues during the AI turns, but still not fixes.  Lots of unhappy users who can't play their game.  This is probably the last game I buy from CA at full price right after it being released.  I'll wait until they run a 50% off promo months later after all the bugs are fixed...

Added:  EA release a fix finally (4/29/2009) that includes 20 different crashing bugs that were fixed -- took them nearly 2 months.  They also made major adjustments to economics that caused many people with saved games to have issues with their empire going extremely broke, and recommended starting over with fresh grand campaigns.  Hopefully the game is going to get stable now, but it definitely was released in a very buggy and alpha-release state.  I'm having a hard time trying to get enthusiastic about trying to learn this game again and investing the time in it after getting burned....
356300
Well, they're getting closer, but they giveth and they crasheth. The good news is that you can edit the metadata straight on the desktop client, which wasn't possible before. And more of my perfectly legitimate mp3 files are uploading, instead of having so many rejected that Amazon Music used to claim were "corrupted" (even though they were perfectly fine for iTunes and every other player on my Mac).

The new adventure in this release is the crashing, which happens frequently, usually when I'm uploading files. At least it's quick about it. But it's extremely disruptive. And startup time is still excruciatingly long. But it's Amazon Music. Take what the devs give you, right?
1017066
I agree with this reviewer. I pre-ordered the game, and it's awesome fun (especially if you team up with people) when it let's you play. But most days I get disconnected, which is why I haven't even played the raid as yet. And before people tell me that it's my internet, let me just say that other online games work just fine...
3206544
This game just doesn't work. The campaign and multiplayer are both fun when they work, but you'll spend more time dealing with glitches, game crashes, corrupted save files (be prepared to lose your saved game progress 3-4 times, more if you hop between singleplayer and multiplayer) and multiplayer modes that don't function. I can't recommend this game at all on the PS3 or the PS4 (I paid for the $10 digital upgrade).
1833263
You need to clearly state that a single player option is not avail.
431526
Fun game, when it works. Crashes to desktop frequently with no warning or error. Took me over 45 minutes just to get past the menu screen boss. Fortunately a refund on steam took less than 2 minutes. If the issues are ever fixed i'll consider purchasing it again, but AAA games should not have these kind of issues for $60.