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Driv3r Reviews. Were PSM2 & XBW honest? (Part II)
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some thoughts :

1. Reviews are subjective.. I hate metroid, if I was a magazine reviewer i'd give it 4 out of 10 (mainly for technical achievement).. but then all the fanboys would post about how i'm rubbish, and my review is "wrong". It's just one person opinion at the end of the day.

2. Magazines are made appx 3 months before they appear on the shelf.. Which is why they're sometimes behind with news, etc. So therefor (to my knowledge might be wrong here) nearly all magazines review unfinished games which might be buggy, etc.. but they have to take the publishers word these issues will be fixed to hit schedules, etc. This doesnt always happen, on a decent launch schedule a finished game can be given to the magazine guys.. but some publishers seem to (if you're a conspiracy theorist) "hurry" games out which arent particularly good so magazines have no choice but to review unfished games, and just presume bugs and glitches will be gone by the time they're released.

3. Magazines are there to make money, just like the games industry itself. If I worked for a magazine and a large publisher said, look.. we'll give you 10 full page adverts for the next few months if you look at this unfinished game and turn a blind eye to a few of it's faults.. if you dont like the game, then obviously it's not good enough to advertise and we wont need the ads... I'm not saying that this happens, but I can understand why it would...

Personally the ONLY reviews i trust are on digitiser on ch4.. as they dont need to make money off ads, etc.. Even websites make their money off ads, and so need to appease publishers. Personally I'll read a paper magazine on the bog, but never take their word as gospel...

NOTE : Im not saying that 2 or 3 actually happen.. just i can understand ish if they do.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Genius satire has begun......



Ha ha ha!!

Nice one!! Very Happy

By the way, rllmuk has mentioned this GR topic a number of times now in its thread about dodgy reviews....nothing to do with me this time!!
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh how I laugh...

Am I the only one not to buy a copy of Driv3r though....
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jamiej wrote:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh how I laugh...

Am I the only one not to buy a copy of Driv3r though....


Quite bizarrely, lots of people are buying it just to see how shocking it is!! Very Happy

Never seen anything like it!
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just dont want to waste money.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Eighthours wrote:
Quite bizarrely, lots of people are buying it just to see how shocking it is!! Very Happy

Never seen anything like it!

Well I 'should' be playing it right now but seeing as Royal Mail fancied it first I'm going to have to wait for another copy. Again. Makes you wonder how Internet & mail services survive...
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If this game is a buggy bugger, then the pc version will be able to sort it out

Is it out today on all formats???
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

KKLEIN wrote:
Eighthours wrote:
Quite bizarrely, lots of people are buying it just to see how shocking it is!! Very Happy

Never seen anything like it!

Well I 'should' be playing it right now but seeing as Royal Mail fancied it first I'm going to have to wait for another copy. Again. Makes you wonder how Internet & mail services survive...


That Channel 4 documentary on the Royal Mail had no effect then!!
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kieron Gillen from PC Gamer made an interestingly obvious but completely overlooked point on rllmuk.

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The handful of bugs that can be removed will effect the final judgement in no way comparable to the quality of the actual game...

...if a publisher considers the game suitable as review code, you treat it as finished code too. All bugs present are bugs.


If XBM and PSM2 are operating above-board, then they really shouldn't have been caught out on that one. There's no way that any crippling bugs, glitches and general crapness could be ironed out from the publishing of review code and the game going gold. Do you really see Atari delaying the game for tweaking, thereby wasting millions of pounds of money cancelling marketing and getting it reprinted with the updated release date?

This is why I can't believe Future's magazines weren't paid off.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

KKLEIN wrote:

Well I 'should' be playing it right now but seeing as Royal Mail fancied it first I'm going to have to wait for another copy. Again. .


This time the crime is it's own punishment, no?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pell wrote:
Of that there's no doubt. But what's to say NGC and Gamesmaster weren't for their 94% or whatever it was?


I am, and anyone who suggests NGC takes bribes is insulting me and my teammates (I realise you aren't doing that, Pell). Hell, it'd make everyone's job a lot easier - no need to play those pesky games, no need to work late to make a good mag, just whack a score in at the end.

I've never worked on a games mag where anyone has taken bribes. In fact, last Christmas a big games company sent very expensive gifts to a lot of the reviewers here, and every single on of them was sent back, in line with company policy about not taking gifts, noy accepting corporate hospitality worth over a certain amount and so on.

Disagree with reviews, say the reviewer doesn't know what he's talking about, pick up any points you like. But don't accuse us of taking bribes. We don't. End of story. (Cue someone calling me a liar Evil or Very Mad )
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Miriam_NGC wrote:
In fact, last Christmas a big games company sent very expensive gifts to a lot of the reviewers here, and every single on of them was sent back, in line with company policy about not taking gifts, noy accepting corporate hospitality worth over a certain amount and so on.


Hmmm, except that I know someone who was working as an Assistant Editor on one of Future's Carp fishing magazines and I've seen with my own eyes the small back room at his home stuffed full of goodies he was sent by manufacturers getting reviews, etc, in the magazine. In his own words he 'hasn't bought any new kit for years'. Doesn't sit well with Future's 'company policy', does it? Shocked


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How did we get onto MK:DD? I had no problem with NGC's review of that at all, it was a fairly written, honest review. Anyone who says they didn't have loads of fun in multiplayer hasn't got very good mates!

The point about the exclusive Driv3r reviews is that they're hopelessly inaccurate. Practically nobody thinks that the game is actually worth 90%, including nearly all the people who have the game and like it despite its flaws.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Miriam_NGC wrote:
But it's not lying to our readers.

Reviewing unfinished code & not telling anyone about it is lying to your readers. Reviewing Driv3r & not mentioning any of the games faults is lying to your readers. XBW & PSM2 lied to its readers, its as simple as that. Future Publishing promised honest buying advice. This wasn't - it was a load of old bollocks.

Read Gamespot. Read IGN. Read Eurogamer. Everything they bring up is not mentioned, in any detail, in those magazines. Why?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fair enough.

But to suggest a magazine such as NGC with it's rich back ground is just wrong...

I haven't been unsatisfied with any of their reviews.
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