Gamepro reviews The Conduit, 3.5/5 wich is 70%

[radioioRobert]

radioioRobert said:

Publicly on Twitter, the GamePro colleagues said whether he was right or wrong, they defended his opinion, and then they made fanboy jokes with other staffers and the reviewer at 1Up. Privately, well, who knows?

The author did use the forums to respond to all the hate on the reviews comments and forums. He said multiplayer was not available to him, and seemed defensive, in both an arrogant and a paranoid kind of way:

TKK wrote:First off, how is it unprofessional if I don't play a mode THAT WASN'T AVAILABLE TO ME? I reviewed the game I was sent. Also my build did not have mappable controls. IGN is an online only entity and gets builds later. I get builds earlier due to print lead times. If they changed something, great. But again, I can only review the game I am sent.You are also ignoring the basic fact: they could change the buttons all they want, the game is still mediocre. But here's the catch: it's mediocre ACCORDING TO MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION.Get off your high horse dude. I didn't like the game. This changes nothing. The universe will continue to exist. The Earth will continue to spin on its axis. When did I become so important that my opinion is enough to cause you to lose your mind? Geezus christ. If you disagree, awesome. But unless you were sitting next to me the entire time I was playing and you have actual proof that I only played for five minutes, turned it off and went back to eating Cheetos, you need to calm down. You act like I stole your Cloudsong or something.

TKK

TKK's review is getting SLAMMED on GamePro forums.....

Read this response to his above statement:

GremlinStew said: You shouldn't review a game unless you have a review copy. You knew the game had multiplayer because in your review you stated that other GamePro staff had played earlier builds of the multiplayer, and it was a well publicized that the controls were fully customizable, so you almost certainly knew that also.

Instead you knowingly reviewed an incomplete build because you were hoping that you'd sell a few more copies of your magazine by publishing a timely Conduit review no matter how inaccurate or halfassed the review was. Then when readers criticize you for writing an inaccurate and halfassed review, you go on Twitter and daydream aloud about killing them. That shows you have no respect for your readers or your own journalistic integrity.

Some people on NeoGaf want you fired, but others have said that's too extreme given the economic climate. Yet High Voltage, who took a big gamble by self-funding The Conduit and pouring thousands of hours of manpower into it, will be financially impacted to a degree by your inaccurate and half-assed review. You didn't care enough about their well-being to simply give the game a fair shake, so why the hell should any of us care about yours--a person who should never be in the position you're in to begin with?

Very true.

And I figured out how this review got past the editor. TKK is not only a reviewer, he is THE review editor. Sad.