Learn to write *well*. Be willing to work for little to no pay. Live in San Francisco, LA or NYC. -hl718
Then start up a blog (or volunteer at some of the mid-tier sites as a columnist) and start writing about games you rent/buy. If you're good, you'll get noticed and start getting sent games by the site to review. That's how a lot of hobby people do it. -hl718
are there any sites that you can recommend, I currently have this as my website devoted to my reviews
Just be willing to work for free or little pay. You can be a terrible writer but if you work for free, bingo. A Pal's brother had a radio show. All you need to do is start a podcast and write for free for the local paper. If you can get in the door and give them a few stories and mention they are *free* you'd be surprised. Local access cable is a good one too.
My friend Dan reviews DS games for a semi-small site. My other friend, Danny, joined/helped create a gaming community/whatever site, and they allow most anyone to do whatever they want, so I'm sure if you can squeeze your way onto a site as a member and just submit an article (well, a good one of course), they'll toss it on the front page. That's all I know. There's always Youtube. If you can get noticed by a few people, then you can get noticed by a few more people and a bunch more and then if the quality is quite decent, a whole lot more. IMO it takes character more than quality in a lot of situations, assuming the latter isn't complete and utter shite.
You need to stand out. Look at Ngai Koala or whatever his name is. He's a personality and that is what gets him crazy interviews.
you should first sell out before bothering with any of the above. Nobody wants to hear the truth these days... or publish it, anyway.
No offense, but based on the reviews on your site, your writing's gonna need a lot of work if you want someone to actually pay you for reviews.
Yea im currently working on the writing issue, and im not wanting to make money doing it, I just want to put it on my resume for something that i did while going to school.
I looked at the reviews and figured I'd give you my two cents. Reading these (and having played none of the games in question), I have no idea what the games are about, or what it would be like to play them. Most of the reviews don't even give me an idea of what genre the game is. Example: the review of HAWX (http://desert-rgr.com/Home/Tom-Clancys-HAWX.php) This pretty much tells me nothing except that it's a game where you get to fly planes. Does it play, say, more like "UN Squadron", "1942", "Star Fox", or "Flight Simulator"? What's the plot of the game? What's a typical level like? Especially if you're going to write reviews without screenshots, your text needs to really paint a picture of the game. Remember that your target audience is people who've never played the game and are deciding whether to buy it.
If you really want to be employed, even voluntarily, at some review page, you need to heavily improve your writing. As graphique said, you hardly draw and image of the game you review. I've read the Terminator Salvation one and with its short phrases and basic descriptions of the features, I couldn't figure out anything about the actual game if I didn't knew it already. Is it a FPS or a 3rd person shooter? Story? Background information? Anything? You might want to watch some Gametrailers video reviews to get some inspiration of what a balanced review sounds like. I think they are quite well done, although their vocabulary seems a bit limited sometimes.
No I am not I am Currently attending Collins College They Have the area and Its more suited to my style of learning and its hands on, The classes are small and I personally like it better than a Huge university Thanks Alot for the insight this is the critiquing I have been looking for Thankyou for the info and the critiquing that you have given me I see some of the points where i have missed and I am currently working on fixing and correcting them
There's some pretty basic formulas to reviews. Go check out kotaku or some other outlet. Intro, discuss hype,breakdown/pics, hint at real eval, discuss, pro /con / overall, summary.
See this as a good learning experience. I haven't even read your reviews, but if members here aren't feeling them, then I trust their opinion. You have work to do, but I'm positive you'll come up with better material if you put more work and thought into what you do. Don't let up just yet. People need to know which games are worthy and which ones stand out. :thumbsup:
