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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO... GAME REVIEWS? FEATURE PUSHOVER!! DECEPTION!! BRIBE!! INDECISION!! think you might e suggest you try COMPROMISE!! SORT OF THING : OU LIKE, THEN OTT LL LIKE THIS ike th 、니ǐ lF THIS IS Th.. is game then before you bu The Dark Underbelly of Reviewing 1 PR man on my shoulder Be wary of reviews told in the form of a story relating how took the mag team out for dinner. Such reviews The Dark Underbelly of Reviewing 4: USA Exclusive The Dark Undderbelly of Reviewing 6: The score of SATAN Reviewing 2 Reviewing 3: PC Exclusive These graphics would be remarkable enough on aw professions offer such a scope for unguarded "We're developing the game in America," explains And it shall pass that the reviewer can't get off level Reviewing 5: try before you buy IS Every time you see a review that ends with a of the line f this is the sort of thing youPC 486DX, so they're truly astounding on a CD32ncompetence as game reviewing. Film reviewers in the software company. 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Readers shouldn't have to the poolside of your rented apartment, draining the as all rival mags have given it a high score. So nough critical analysis for them to make up their sending the disks over to the reviewer by Federal buyers, yet high enough to pacify the software texture mapping and gourard shading far beyond etore you buy" is used by dullard reviewers who And then you can impartially review our game by Christmas, and he shall tremble and quake mightily for that matter" Never trust a review containing this completely false impression of the game. But hey. ythe game. They should read a review containing mini-bar at our expense." Curiously, the thought of shall give it a score low enough to dissuade potential line, unless it's used to ironically counterpoint a low we've got the much vaunted and ultimately mark of course. It was almost certainly written in meaningless exclusive Express seems to occur to no one. Mountain topeople. And that score shall be the NUMBER OF Mohammed and all that nds about whether they want to play it or not. re THE BEAST, and it shall be 73 percent POUND OF FLESH :三 (AND THE CRATE OF BEER'S IN THE POST)megazines mes with yur minds Having digested all there is to know about Japanese cartoons in AP50, your thoughts are almost certainly turning back to how games an easy ride in return for exclusivity "It gets 91% in one review, yet only 1 HOLDENHEIN'S CHART OF EMPLOYMENT companles agre to soerisngie the softiwae Rodger Huxley from Robin Hood's Baysingeveny aspect of a consumer durable,this view mes coming Rodger Huxley from Robin Hood's Bay. maintains that reviewers prevent their loyal readers information as verbatim from press releases, but om getting burned by buying high-profile yet obliged to say nice things about the games coming companies agree to spend loads on lavish Tool of the esting every aspect of a consumer durable, this viewfrom 'industry friends' and recount the product Devil advertorial supplements (written by the mags An exclusive review, cover image career progression opens up more subtle roads. If responsive reviewers to the States in return. But you're the editor, why not freelance out all the crapobviously, we can dismiss this final theory out of games (washing your hands of any responsibility) and hand, as no modern-day industry would support so Holdenhein's Eleventh Law of Games states exponentially affected by the chances of the ntertainingly than WHICH? Obviousy. some kind of causal relationship? en Dumfries. Let your sleepless nights be at an end as we melt away your DoubtCongestion by dripping another TruthKarvo!Kapsule™ onto your demonstrated thus Another way to look at reviewers is that they'rekeep all the really good games for yourself to review? much falsehood, deal-doing, blatant toadying and game-obsessed self-promotionalists at the bottom This way, when that PR job comes up at Digital backscratching as would be needed for this system to ng of a career devoted to reaching the ultimate goal Magnetic Ilusions Interactive in Los Angeles, you'l work. Would it? WOULD it? WOULD IT? df product manager. In this model, the time spent on iends and contacts in the industry. Having some andana) helps these go-getters stand out from the have a stack of glowingly vague, yet complimentary AD FINALLY COMPANY INCENTIVE B Jacket & free beer C Jacket, free beer & dinner kids' in a bid to SELL. In this theory, the faceless suits crowd, as does going out and drinking lots of beer who own the magazines play golf with the ex-demo THE FUTURE OF VIDEO GAME REVIEWS coders who own the software companies, and on the E-4 more visits to the States F Job as "Product Manager" games reviewers then. What are they all about? Well, there are several ways of looking at this most un-noble and Obviously, if the ultimate aim is to work in the16th hole, the mags agree to give sub-standard We fear that AP may be powerless to stop uPUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE think of a games magazine as your older, richer and le friend. He's the kid who can afford to buy every game as it comes out, regardless of whether he hated the original or has heard that evern the arcade game was rubbish. He's rich yet also ...after the meal, Binary Magician Interactive's PR guy Gary let me drive h Testarossa to the office. He's great, and we played the game for an hour while chatting Knowing all there is to know about the reviewing lark, can you now match the scores 18%, 47%, 73%, 94%-with the review The view from the offices overlooking San good as from the helicopter they chartered to BUY GAME you in the park and tell you everything about the game, how the later levels are better than the earlier ones, how the collision detection's a bit off and how it GAME X .A doesn't (gm) recognise a second disk drive. And then "Incredibly, the graphics claim to be nearly a demonstrate the game's awesome realism." good as the PC version, but when we played ■ "BRILLIANT!" REVIEW MARK "So, if the idea of managing a team of 14th In this model, games reviewers are talented luminated pages on time games magazines. The only thing they care about is getting the facts right. In the same way that other ppeals to you, then you'll love this game.

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Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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