Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Review Thread - MC: 93/ GR: 91.59%

[Nuvendil]

ethomaz said:

Nuvendil said:

Well there were no pre-release review copies given out.  You either agreed to be flown out to their facility and forced to play the game under a pretty strict time limit or you went and bought it yourself.  So reviews are going to take longer than normal.  

Most press got the full retail game copy before release.

The pre-release event was more to small ones that didn't reveiced the retail copy.

IGN for examplo got the retail copy before the pre-release event.

hmmm?  I thought for sure I heard otherwise.

Edit:  In fact, what I am reading right now seems to indicate that I was right.  The early reviews (those first 25 or so) came from the "bootcamps" where you had to agree to come out there and review based on observed gameplay.  Except for maybe a small handful of really, really big sites.  I'll keep looking, but I'm pretty sure I'm right on this...