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Reviewer Ownage - Eurogamer Embroiled In Controversy

Another example of how you can't always trust game review sites, even those who seem to already have a good reputation: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=360734 The game? Darkfall Online. Eurogamer posted their review of the long thought to be vapourware MMO this afternoon and it has received one of the lowest scores ever given to a game by Eurogamer. Ive just come across this little gem on the Darkfall forum from one of the developers and he claims that the reviewer did not play more than 2 hours of the game...and most of those two hours were spent on character creation. Now im normally one to defend Eurogamers usually excellent reviews, but even not having played the game, it reads like a poorly written fanboy rant. The review now has over 300 comments with many of them pointing out the factual errors they allege the review contains. How many on GAF have actually played the game? Is the review accurate? Is it fair to review an MMO based on only 2 hours of play? Hell, s...

Review Retrospective: Gears of War

Above is an image of Dan Hsu/1UP's review of Gears of War way back from 2006. Reading it now, in retrospect, you get to realize how unreliable video game reviews are these days. Despite all the negative comments in that review (even going so far as to calling Gears' multiplayer as 'broken') the game is still one of the most popular games on the Xbox 360. It's still hanging on in Major Nelson's Top 10 games on Xbox Live: http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/07/02/live-activity-for-week-of-june-23rd.aspx "Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU’s) 1 Call of Duty 4 2 Halo 3 3 GTA IV 4 Battlefield: Bad Company Demo 5 Guitar Hero III 6 Gears of War 7 Rock Band 8 Battlefield: Bad Company 9 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 10 FIFA 08 " Not bad for a game with "broken multiplayer" and supposedly imprecise gameplay mechanics with the melee combat....And later on it turns out that the 'imprecise, hard to control' chainsaw is everyone's f...