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Eight, have you
read the piece on CVG this
morning?
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:56
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| Eight, have you read the piece
on CVG this
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Nope, will take a look.
EDIT: Had a look....
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CVG has already received word
from readers complaining of bugs and glitches
hinted at in the U.S. reviews. We contacted
Atari regarding this matter, but a spokesperson for the
company remained unavailable at the time of
writing.
Driv3r is out and it's
already selling like hotcakes, but what do we
think of it? Well, we'd love to be able to tell
you, but despite the game already being out in
numerous locations across the UK, ahead of this
Friday's official launch, CVG.com has yet to
receive any review code from
Atari. |
Surprise surprise.
This little nugget of info is in the
equivalent thread to this one on Eurogamer......
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Having worked in the PR dept at
Atari, there's no doubt in my mind that 'money
changed hands' in some form or other. It's
usually in the form of 'up our score and we'll
take out more ads in your mag next month'. Not a
direct 'bung' as such as the money is going
towards the advertising.
Been there.
Seen that. Left the company in
disgust. |
Hmmm......
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:02
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Yes I've read
through that forum.
In these days of
anonimity it's easy to make false claims about who
you are or what you do. Who to trust though eh?
Nice post of yours bigging up the GR forum though.
Did they pay you off for that? 
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:16
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Yes I've read through that
forum.
In these days of anonimity it's
easy to make false claims about who you are or
what you do. Who to trust though eh? Nice post
of yours bigging up the GR forum though. Did
they pay you off for that? |
Yeah, you can make things
up, but it didn't look like he was, to be honest.
Sadly GR don't pay me for pimping them on
other forums, but when there's something that GR
can contribute to a discussion, I'm more than
happy to provide a
link.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:26
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I'll just echo
your thoughts. Bring on the edge
review.
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3/10 was way
too harsh. now it is in a league with twin caliber
and other crappy games. I think they could at
least have given it 3 more, having played it now,
i think they rated it so bad because they are
disappointed in this game and judged it out of
their expectations.
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I can just see
the front cover of OPS2 now - "You've read the
sh*t now read the shocking truth!” And it's not
like they wouldn’t either, it'd be a great boost
to the magazines reputation no doubt. Not that
they wouldn't have done the same if given half the
chance though obviously.
And Nellis, if
you come on here & say "it's great" you're not
gonna be fooling
anyone.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:15
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I can just see the front cover
of OPS2 now - "You've read the sh*t now read the
shocking truth!” And it's not like they wouldn’t
either, it'd be a great boost to the magazines
reputation no doubt. Not that they wouldn't have
done the same if given half the chance though
obviously.
And Nellis, if you come on
here & say "it's great" your not gonna be
fooling anyone. |
I don't think OPS2M will
want to upset Atari either, to be honest.
No, it'll be Games TM that savage it, and
write across the cover IMO, along with any other
mags that always say what they
think.
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| On the subject
of Mario Kart Double Dash!!, I don't think
Nintendo paid off NGC and the other overscorers;
it's more likely that the reviewers are complete
fanboys and scored the game too highly of their
own fanboyish accord. Which is obviously just as
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| On the subject of Mario Kart
Double Dash!!, I don't think Nintendo paid off
NGC and the other overscorers; it's more likely
that the reviewers are complete fanboys and
scored the game too highly of their own
fanboyish accord. Which is obviously just as
bad. |
Don't think it is, the
motives of the 2 actions are poles
apart.
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| GwiDan
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| On the subject of Mario Kart
Double Dash!!, I don't think Nintendo paid off
NGC and the other overscorers; it's more likely
that the reviewers are complete fanboys and
scored the game too highly of their own
fanboyish accord. Which is obviously just as
bad. |
Don't think it is, the
motives of the 2 actions are poles
apart. |
Lying to your readership is
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MKDD was NOT a
buggy mess beset by fatal gameplay problems. It
was different and certainly not to everyones
liking. Edge called it like they saw it and have
been doing so for a very long time. Disagreeing
with that review is fair enough. They were honest.
This is a different kettle of hoo haa
altogether.
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True-Mario kart
may have been disappointing-but the only bug was
the cheating A.I-and thats always in Mario
kart.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:58
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| OctogenarianPussy
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MKDD was NOT a buggy mess beset
by fatal gameplay problems. It was different and
certainly not to everyones liking. Edge called
it like they saw it and have been doing so for a
very long time. Disagreeing with that review is
fair enough. They were honest.
This is a
different kettle of hoo haa
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You've misunderstood. I
agree with Edge's review but I'm slightly cynical
of the other reviews that gave MK:DD a far higher
score than it deserves. There's no way it's a 9/10
game; an average game deserves an average
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