| epicurean said: I've never paid any attention to their video game reviews. However, I'm a big music fan, and over the years I formed the opinion that I doubt they even listen to the albums they review. In fact, I think there was a controversy a couple years back about one review being factually inaccurate. I don't know if the same staff does music/video games though. Edit: I remember now...it was someone who actually wrote for the magazine who admitted he wrote reviews without listening to the whole album... (again, may not be related to the video game "staff"). |
That was actually 2008. They reviewed the Counting Crows and Nas albums in the same issue and got called out by representatives of both parties that no review copies had been released to the press. It became very bad in the case of Nas, because the album didn't get reviewed anywhere else for another four months. Basically they listened to the one or two available songs from the albums and formed an opinion on them to represent the entire albums.
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