here's a link to the RPGwatch review.

It's a pretty good one, really. He clearly put some effort into writing that one.

This one: http://www.zonejeu.info/2010/08/test-elemental-war-of-magic.html

still in French is more positive but doesn't give a rating.

Elemental : War of Magic is a title with enormous potential developped by a small studio which unfortunately couldn't wait to have finished thier game before releasing it. the result is an incredible mess, a gold mine of ideas and concepts assembled in an interesting universe and given an original graphical style, which are totally spoiled by bugs and a lack of accessibility which restrict it to the most persevering. Elemental had the ppotential to compete with Civilization V, and missed. We reamin optimistic hoping that Stardock fixes the issues in the weeks to come, but we still advise you to wait for more news before picking it.

Excellent translation LDiCesare you got it spot on. thumbs up!

RAT 

How did 1UP play multiplayer when it isn't even ENABLED!  The screen shots are all taken from this website.

Umm, is there a pirated version that has multiplayer LAN or something?  The facts don't add up.

yup, I was reading the review even though I find 1ups reviews more comedy then anythign else...

And what do I see in the review?? They mention Multiplayer.. like you can play it! hahaha.

How can you play multiplayer when its not even up yet? lmoa, fail review is fail.

I would think fans would enjoy the 1up review. He gives it a C+ rating when his words, what he actually wrote, is clearly something more like D, not much good to say at all. I don't think the reviewers have special copies. If they bother to mention multiplayer at all, the other reviewers have mentioned it doesn't work right now.

Failure to read where we already discussed how this is possible (in this same thread) is also fail.

Failure to comprehend that the reviewer was making it up as he went along is also fail.

I have returned, will update the list today.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun has their "impressions" up.  There's no score, and from the conclusion it doesn't sound like they will be doing a standard review:

He did recommend people pick up AoW:SM instead, so you couldn't really add this one to the plus column.

Updated, thanks Tridus!

"So, is it all a disaster? Well, the A.I. problems are fixed to some degree by the robust multiplayer (if you can find friends willing to slog through the ugliest visuals since finger-painting class) [Editor's Note: At the time of the game's release, no multiplayer options were available. However, once those features are available, the author wants to clarify that they should mitigate any problems he encountered with the game's current A.I.]."

^^ This is why I dont take reviews seriously... ever... The dude talks about multiplayer when its not even out yet! lmao what a loser.

He posted a response about that, actually. His badly worded point was that once it's up, MP will make up for the AI issues somewhat. I'm not sure about that, but he wasn't trying to say that he was playing MP.

Neoseeker's review is up too. 9/10, editors choice. This one is so positive it's hard to figure out how all the reviewers are all talking about the same game (actually reminds me of the forums some ). Here's my favorite quote:

He's reviewing:

For the record, everything to follow is based on version 1.06 -- one version after the day 0 patch and packing mostly bugfixes and balance changes. Now that all that's out of the way...

Which is interesting. I don't know that the other reviewers mention the version much.

edit: I also see a picture of a dragon in their screenshots. Are dragons in the game, because someone told me they were not or were being removed. I forget which?