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[nofriendo]

If fogarty does this with anyone other than me there is going to be trouble.

i would pay andy not ot do this with you!! just for a laugh like

 

[Stan Bowles]

Looking at the list I have the two games I'd want anyway.

We will see who the gamerscore whores are as well, this is retarded.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-kv4QJnV8

 

[nofriendo]

wow, thats fucking daft. i thought king kong was bad with the 1000 for finishing!

 

[Wilbert]

that doesnt make sense. the shops dont replace red ring xboxs. most will tell you to go to microsoft.

Way to suck all the fun out of a story!

 

[nofriendo]

so eh r6v2 !

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/15150/Tom-Clancys-Rainbow-Six-Vegas-2-Announced/

stan will be happy with this news

 

[Johnnyc]

Vegas 2 - hurrah!

So long as they update the graphics - they just don't cut it alongside the likes of COD4 now. Really good game though. Thought the cover system worked better than in GOW.

 

[avernus]

it was a kinda stupid game though. storming a casino or an opera house that's being robbed by approximately 10,000 terrorists. that shit has to go. it'd be a much better game if it wasn't like taking on an army.

 

[nofriendo]

it was a kinda stupid game though. storming a casino or an opera house that's being robbed by approximately 10,000 terrorists. that shit has to go. it'd be a much better game if it wasn't like taking on an army.

it would be really short tough

 

[CitySickness]

Some excellent (unconfirmed & denied) scuttlebutt from the Eurogamer forums:
Ubisoft and EG - is this true?

A certain British gaming website had praised Assassin's Creed since it was announced. They'd run previews, interviews, did a lot to hype the game. When they played the final built, they finally realized it wasn't that great, so it got a 7/10. But instead of acknowledging AC's mistakes, Ubisoft got furious, pulled all ads from the site and cancelled all placed orders (mid five figures) indefinitely. A planned live interview with Jade Raymond isn't going to happen either. According to Ubisoft everything would have been fine though, if the site had just put an 8 instead of a 7 under the same text.

I wonder how they'll score Ubisoft's next game...

Whether or not this is true in this particular case, I'm quite sure similar stuff goes down all over the gaff.

 

[Johnnyc]

Some excellent (unconfirmed & denied) scuttlebutt from the Eurogamer forums:
Ubisoft and EG - is this true?



Whether or not this is true in this particular case, I'm quite sure similar stuff goes down all over the gaff.

Funny stuff. Sure it's been going on for years in gaming magazines. Full cover + playable demo = extra points in the final review score. If this really did happen, then fair play to EG.

 

[Franco]

I remember when Team 17 got in a mad tizzy with Amiga Power for dissing their games. It got quite nasty. They stopped sending review copies, poor-mouthed the mags reputation in the industry etc. AP was always a rebellious read.

 

[nofriendo]

If this really did happen, then fair play to EG.

you can be sure that they have shown favouritism to other games/companies as well !

 

[nofriendo]

ign actually changed their review under pressure

http://www.destructoid.com/ign-modi...review-after-destructoid-s-report-54072.phtml

 

[CitySickness]

EG's rebuttal [italics my own], from the same thread:

Hello all,

Ubisoft are still advertising with us - there are AC ads on EGTV and in the PS3 channel as others have pointed out, and ads haven't been pulled for other upcoming games. Actually, to their credit, whilst every publisher clearly would like the best possible score for each of their games, we don't get much pressure from them these days as they know that our advertising guys and our editorial guys are separate and we wouldn't be so silly as to change a review score based on commercial pressure.

Games come and go and each publisher will get some high scores and some low scores over the years on EG, so any disagreement over a review score is fairly short lived as everyone moves on to the next big thing.

This is the first I've heard of the Jade chat not happening though We do have one with Naughty Dog this afternoon though!

Cheers,

Rupert

If they do operate such a strict chuch/state split between editorial/advertising, then fair fucks, although I don't think it's ever that simple. Internal pressure from ad departments, for favourable reviews or de-fanging of critical ones, often happens without any prompting from publishers.

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

EG's rebuttal [italics my own], from the same thread:



If they do operate such a strict chuch/state split between editorial/advertising, then fair fucks, although I don't think it's ever that simple. Internal pressure from ad departments, for favourable reviews or de-fanging of critical ones, often happens without any prompting from publishers.

I'll de-fang you!

 

[nofriendo]

7 isnt a bad score though !

 

[CitySickness]

I'll de-fang you!

I'll quote you!

 

[Johnnyc]

7 isnt a bad score though !

It's not great either. And for 60 odd euro (when there are so many top games around at the mo), giving a game as hyped as that a 7 is a pretty big deal.

 

[nofriendo]

the main problem is that all the review sites give out scores that are way too high. an 8 is viewed as a bad score! assassins creed is an average game so 6-7 is justified yet it receives high scores everywhere!

 

[pete]

the main problem is that all the review sites give out scores that are way too high. an 8 is viewed as a bad score! assassins creed is an average game so 6-7 is justified yet it receives high scores everywhere!

on a scale of 1 to 10, "average" would be a 5, i think.