IGN have a review up for the Sonic game

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/113/1131446p1.html

I guess the rest will be up soon then

The review embargo is up Thursday morning (Wednesday night) at 12:01 AM.  So unless you are getting Kinect at a midnight launch, reviews would be available before purchase.

But did MS allow reviewers to get kits in time? In-depth reviews require several days for the test and then some time to actually write, lay out and proofread the articles. If the embargo was also on kits availability (up until now I read around conflicting versions, some saying the embargo was only on publishing, some others saying MS would have made kits and SW available for tests very late too), only EMEAA will really get in-depth reviews in time before launch.

I can't speak for all sites, but I know for a fact that Gamespot, IGN and Kotaku have all recieved review hardware with a batch of games, some time last week - I would assume this is true for most major sites/publications. 

IGN and Gamespot have some previews/unboxing and Kotaku reported that they had it and would post reviews at end of embargo.

THX for the infos. I'm quite surprised that MS tries to play safe, having the first in-depth reviews just one days before launch on the market that normally loves XB360 the most, while it's taking more risks in Europe, that is normally a lot more critical towards it. Maybe it's because they think that any possible overboost of American sales could exceed and largely repay any possible slowing in Europe, doing a quick count it could make sense...

I thought Kinect was launching earlier in the US, hence Europe will automatically - i.e. whether MS like it or not - get in-depth reviews due to the later launch.

The only way around it in the internet age would be for MS to delay US reviews and coverage until the European launch, and I can hardly imagine that would be viable either.

US has always been the focus for MS with Xbox for new features and growing their base and I don't see it being any different with Kinect.  On past history US is where Kinect will see the most success hence it's where MS will put the most effort and try and negate all chance of anything negative.

Not saying they won't support Europe, too.  They will.  But just not to the same scale.

I know, it's just that that put me in doubt, if MS was so eager to make that embargo effective at its maximum, it should have released Kinect simultaneously.  This way, instead, make me think that their predictions are that Kinect will be incredibly bigger in USA than in the rest of the world... But wait, maybe I forgot a thing: this applies to first week purchases only, later both Americans and the others will have access to the same infos, so the reasoning behind the embargo could be aimed only at American impulse purchasers, earliest adopters.

Why is this still even going? MS have but an embargo on everything they do lately (Reach, Fable ect) until the midnight before release ... LKinect was never going to be different. And yes reviewers were sent out kinect plus games over a week ago ..

Reviews will start coming in about 30 ish hours from now.

Well, actually we found a quite interesting and strange thing, that whenever the launch is staggered, those embargos protect only the launch in America, where MS is supposed to be stronger than anywhere else. If the American launch will be enormously bigger than elsewhere, we'll have a very reasonable explanation, otherwise we'll remain puzzled.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBITcTqL710 - First unofficial review