Gamespot Editor Fired Over Kane & Lynch Review?

[Submeg]

Yea well if the site advertises a game to be good, and it turns out sh1t...then in the end they will lose money because people wont believe their site..lose lose situ

[Ghost]

Ah, the old story.

Something similar happened to a favorite computer magazine of mine I used to read seven years ago; Hoog Spel, an independent Dutch gaming magazine.

When they weren't as favourable to games that the publishers and importers really wanted to sell well they stopped receiving adds and game copies to reviews.

But instead of giving into the demands they decided to stop instead, not really feeling there was such a demand anymore for an independent gaming magazine when magazines such as Power Unlimited are there.

[J T]

It's a poor show, for sure, and a sad indication of how much control the money and ad-men have over the reviewers (and media in general). Luckily there are a million web sites with reviews and opinions, so we can find ones we trust. And there are even more warez sites for us to try for ourselves

I have to say I go a lot on word-of-mouth when choosing games. But then, because I buy relatively few games I don't take that many risks on more obscure games.

[Harrison]

I've also always tended to go with word of mouth, as well as never just taking a single magazine's review of a game as the only reliable source.

Every true review is written based on the reviewer's personal like and dislikes, as well as the experience they have based on the games they have personally played before. Therefore one opinion in a review might not reflect others.

But when they start to write reviews to order from the marketing department of the publisher of the game you are then paying to buy a magazine of adverts, and not one of personal objective reviews, and in my view that is misrepresentation and surely against the law!

[AlexJ]

One thing I was quite suprised to see recently was that Edge gave Halo 3 a 10/10 review. That's a pretty rare occurance, and having played the game I can't really see why. It's a solid game but it's not really revolutionary or too different from what's gone before it.

[Harrison]

That is true. I was slightly surprised to see it score a 10/10 too. Edge tend to be over critical normally with their reviews, but I can't imagine they would succumb to the same pressure from publishers as some others have.

[Ghost]

Hello all,

A 10/10 would indicate that this game would be setting new trends on its field, and to be honest Halo, especially Halo 3 doesn't really do that at all.
All it did was perhaps make FPS games more appealing to console gamers.

And for the rest, its pretty well known that a lot developers these days 'buy' the scores for their games, they of course want to sell as much as possible in the end
I find the quality a lot of games rather questionable, especially those of the extreme games.