windbane on 12 May 2008
Exclusive reviews are questioned lately because they are almost always high scores. I think many reviewers have to confirm that their review is going to be good before they are given exclusivity. It's stupid because I don't know what other medium has exclusives for reviews. The publisher wants the first review to look good, and the reviewer gets the publicity from being the first.
But whatever, I'm sure this won't be the only 10/10 MGS4 gets. I've heard a lot of great things about it from the 1up Show, a site that clearly didn't get an "exclusive review" since they have at least one reviewer that's played through it.
