IGN: Where Is the Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified Review?

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JoeTheBro said:

But that's why I am so ^#$#&# about this! I bought Resistance Burning Skies on launch day and it had all of these issues and then some. I have yet to see a reviewer that says BS has a better multiplayer and yet COD reviews are less than half as good. This game is basically just a re-skinned version of Resistance with the name COD slapped over it. That leads to the conclusion that Declassified is being reviewed so poorly because it has so much IP to live up to. However that contradicts COD PSP and DS games which were reviewed all about the same as Burning Skies. I'm not disagreeing that the game is lousy and overpriced, but can you figure out why it deserves such horrible scores compared to these similar and arguably worse games?

Being in the industry, I can tell you that hype affects our review scores as a whole.    If a game is heavily hyped and underdelivers, it can end up with overall lower scores than a game with no hype that plays equally as well.

It's one of the unfortunate natures of the industry.