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headshot91 said:
Why are they posting the review at least a week and a bit before the embargo?

The videogame industry consists of a symbiotic relationships between publishers and videogame sites that act as promotion tools for the publishers.  Because of this, a website will get a game early to review, being given by a publisher with the expectation that the review would be real good, so they can use it to market.  The videogame site will then review a game quickly, and will often inflate the score to get good with the publisher.  Well, what you do is you front-load the videogame to be good early.  The site beats everyone to the market with the review, and gets attention.  Fanboys, who depend on quality titles on their console to help them fight their console wars will post reviews like this on a forum, and say how awesome the game is (before they play it), in hopes it generates buzz to get them sales. 

End result: We get game reviews that are fanboy fodder, rather than something that helps people make informed buying decisions, as it is supposed to serve.  If anyone can name any other industry that does what the videogame industry does, and has ratings inflation, please let me know.  No way any industry should have as many 90%+ ratings.



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rossoner said:
richardhutnik said:

Wow, it HAS to be awesome.  Goes-to-11 gave it a 10/10!  AWESOME!

http://goes-to-11.blogspot.com/2010/04/review-alan-wake.html

 

It will break all sales records of post-prerelease sales before the title is released!

u call this review??

 

anyway im waiting for more trusted reviews

After people were complaining severely that Final Fantasy XIII got a 5/10 from Edge, I decided it was time to have a website up that didn't give out any reviews that would offend the industry or fans of a game.  I can guarantee you the reviews given out by Goes-To-11 are welcomed by any fan of a game. 



Seece said:
Euphoria14 said:
Fantastic score!

This game looks fantastic and has me interested.

I own a 360 but won't be buying this game unless it was on PS3. I have become a trophy junkie. I will however be renting it.

Let me tell you, I am 100% jealous that this is 360 only. I hope all you 360 fans enjoy the shit out of this game.

Why are you jealous if you're going to be playing it?

Because I wanted trophies.



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Euphoria14 said:
Seece said:
Euphoria14 said:
Fantastic score!

This game looks fantastic and has me interested.

I own a 360 but won't be buying this game unless it was on PS3. I have become a trophy junkie. I will however be renting it.

Let me tell you, I am 100% jealous that this is 360 only. I hope all you 360 fans enjoy the shit out of this game.

Why are you jealous if you're going to be playing it?

Because I wanted trophies.

Fair enough, I wouldn't be jealous if I got to play LBP without achievements, but different strokes and all that



 

Kynes said:
dsgrue3 said:

 

That water looks absolutely stunningly realistic. That had to be difficult. Very impressed with the ray tracing.

That isn't raytracing, it's shading. Really good shading, but only shading.

Thank you. It was silly to think they could use ray tracing in real time.



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Pretty sweet game, i can agree with a 93/100



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