Gran Turismo 5 Reviews: Can They Be Trusted?

[The Fury]

mrpapaye said:

The game arrived in our office on Monday, and I seriously doubt it arrived much, if any, earlier in the hands of other games writers across the UK and Europe. This means a conservative estimate would put the review at two days of play, one day of writing. If you’re not a typing idiot, two-and-a-bit days play, the end of Tuesday writing it. Sony specifically requested that online was included with all reviews of the game – a fair request, and something a lot of places would clearly do anyway.

Well, the game is in every french shop since last friday and almost all french gaming sites have it since that day so it probably means it arrived in the hands of many reviewers 2 or 3 days before that monday...

That might not be likely, the reviewers would have waited for the review copy to be sent to them, not willing to spend money on a store copy just to review it. If sony only jsut sent out the review copies to in a way force and embargo on them reviews would have been rushed as the article states.