So I was having a discussion with an imaginary friend of mine, as people on the internet do, about videogame review embargoes. We were both stumped when it came to coming up with an example of a game that had a review embargo up until its launch date and turned out stellar. I was hoping if you, the fine people of VGChartz, could give me some examples of stellar titles that had review embargoes lifted on their release dates. 

Also for the sensitive gamers out there, I'm not having a go at Second Son and Titanfall, but you'd have to be rather naive not to realise they were never going to be goty material from their gameplay videos.

Agreed.

Erm..................................no can't think of any.

Grand Theft Auto V, okay?

inFamous Second Son and Titanfall are both very good games

I don't agree that a late embargo means that it is a bad game, but I don't see what there is to gain from it unless it is bad

If it's good, you get more word of mouth sales, something that both of these games would benefit from.

Part of it is Sony's new found (ND inspired I think) fear of spoilers. I agree with them (I haven't read any inFamous reviews), but maybe this is taking it too far

So aren't TF and inFamous disproving your point? Or are you from the PS3-sales kind who think both are critical failures lol?

Not really.

It in a way cancels out the retards that will give bs low score reviews early to get clicks while barely even having played the game, when all drop on the last second it minimizes damage from the many shit heads in the gaming media.

nothing will stop sites looking for hits, if you look titanfall X1 has 2 bad scores, 1 place giving it 60% and talking about how it doesn't compare to man walking on the moon... Not sensationalised rubbish at all.

The main thing putting the review embargo does tho is make the day 1 buyers of the game not see a review score before they get it... but if you're going to buy it on Day 1 anyway it's unlikely that a review would change your mind, definately not if you see it in the 80s or higher.

I don't know about you, but I think you can win GOTY awards with an 86 on Metacritic.

I really don't see these embargoes as an issue. We've seen great and terrible outcomes from games that have these embargoes.