IGN has reported the other day that Resident Evil 5’s mercenaries mode is not playable online. Just yesterday, IGN posted their final review, claiming sentiments three times in the actual review such as “No Mercenaries online? Really?”. While I could go on complaining about the lowered score because of it, the real issue is: how did they screw this up?

The online community has gone up and arms lately about it. Reviews have been a hot topic as of late; some reviewers are being called out for not finishing a sufficient portion of the game before finalizing a review. Others, like IGN, push false information before confirmation.

The issue was raised when Japanese gamers, confused, kept stating they were playing Mercenaries online at that moment. All Resident Evil 5 needs is a simple update to play Mercs online. This also apparently shows they’ve never actually tested RE5 online at all. You’d think before trashing this, you’d either check online first for confirmation, or simply email Capcom about it. A lot of people probably see no Mercs online as a dealbreaker. Make no mistake; thoroughly playing games before review is more of a serious issue as of late.

Mercs Online Confirmation:

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Link to the review

IGN

Additional Confirmation: An interview with Takeuchi on Dengeki a day before IGN posted the review:

“DUO Mode, which allows players to play The Mercenaries through 2 Player Co-Op online, will be distributed at launch.”

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this is REALLY bad IGN!

I didn't expect this from IGN out of all the online gaming sites

I'm disappointed today

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i was puzzled when i first heard this, i actually remember reading that as one of ign's nitpicks too...

wonder if they will alter the score after this? or retract their statements?

Hmmmm, well if I was (paid) to ensure that my review was well written and informative, I might want to cover every aspect of the game, before posting my review. Unless the review copy was missing key online features, there is no excuse for this. This is unfortunate.

ign sucks for me now..

Sounds like there was a day zero patch that enables it. It's possible IGN didn't see an online option or couldn't get the update for some reason, and assumed there wouldn't be online mercs mode. Fable II's online co-op was in a first day patch as well. So it might not've been malicious or even lazy on IGN's part.

Gamming community should just ignore game critique sites like this there only gonna get worst

Not that I want to defend IGN, but from the sound of things it was missing.

From the OP: "DUO Mode, which allows players to play The Mercenaries through 2 Player Co-Op online, will be distributed at launch."

Merceniers mode wasn't availeble online at review game...Not at least Pelaajalehti which reviewed game yesterday (8/10) or Pelit (88/100)

So our review is for the review code, not the actual game we will get when it launches?

That's what we get for believing reviewers who value quickness and earliness of a review over accuracy. I don't know what game these guys reviewed, but it certainly wasn't the one we get at launch, and they prove their ignorance in an internationally distributed review. Priceless.

Epic fucking fail.

agree zenfoldor, besisdes they gave it a 80 on presentetion cuz of these issue, it seems that way