EDGE hammers Killzone 2 - 7.0

[Squilliam]

CGI-Quality said:

@ Squilliam

Actually, I find what you just posted more disturbing, LBP average? Dunno if you're being sarcastic but as of late, I can't tell. Regardless, this review didn't require it's own thread, regardless of if it got a 10/10 or a 1/10 from Edge. You can agree with that, no?

I really enjoy LBP, does that tell you my true feelings?

But actually do you want this crap in the official thread? Its better that people blow off steam here and keep the actual main thread clean from bitter trolling.

@Euphoria:

Its not a swipe against KZ2, its a swipe at the review process in general. The earlier reviews almost always come out extremely positive and the later reviews come out much more balanced between the good and the bad. Its not that all the scores for all the hyped games which come out earlier are biased its just that poor reviews for games like these cannot come out earlier and the games companies are protecting their best interests which is understandable and manipulating the review process. The review industry is incestuous with their advertisers, one poor review can mean 10s of thousands of dollars worth of advertising pulled from a site or magazine.

It bothers me in many ways that a game like LBP is robbed of its pride of place at the top by some (extra) shifty review work from other games (GTAIV). Other games are robbed of higher scores, and I think Uncharted falls into this grouping because of a lack of advertising funds for the game so whilst it may be as good as other games which have been reviewed higher, it doesn't get that special treatment. See, for example I called out Eurogamers 10/10 for Fable 2 when they have a FULL PAGE ADVERTISEMENT on the front of the site, can you really trust a review under those conditions for example?