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Forums - Sony - GT5 REVIEW EMBARGO in place by SONY till this Wednesday (24th Nov)

darthdevidem01 on 22 November 2010

Your Gran Turismo 5 review will be here...

Scouring the site for our Gran Turismo 5 review? We know you are - we've read the comments in the forums, and understand if you're getting impatient.

The truth is, we're not going to be able to bring it to you until 8.01am on Wednesday. Yes, that's release day.

That's been requested by Sony directly, and an embargo is in place.

What's more, the Gran Turismo 5 review code only arrived this weekend. So even if there was a way to give you our review early, we wouldn't have had enough time with this mammoth game to do it justice.

It's going to be tough to do so before Wednesday morning, in all honesty - but we've got plenty of caffeine on stand by to help.

We're genuinely sorry. We'd love to be able to offer you our definitive thoughts today or tomorrow. We're finding that many others across the web are in the same boat.

We can promise you that we're busy whipping around GT5's tracks now, and testing out every element of the game we can. We can also tell you that it looks stunning - but you no doubt already knew that from the multitude of gameplay videos online.

In the meantime, we can just offer you a reminder of PSM3's latest impressions of the game - and encourage you to pick up the new issue of OPM, which includes 'the truth' about the game, following a very thorough play-through.
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So there's an embargo AND they don't have enough time to get the review out by then
So thats why there's not any GT5 reviews out here yet....



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

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cicohipe on 22 November 2010

Plus online servers arn't up yet.



ethomaz on 22 November 2010
cicohipe said:

Plus online servers arn't up yet.

Yeah. Reviews without online mode makes no sense for me.



zgamer5 on 22 November 2010

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!



Being in 3rd place never felt so good

Doobie_wop on 22 November 2010

Stupid Sony, you should be above such pettiness. 



Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3879752

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--OkeyDokey-- on 22 November 2010

It's so that OPM (or whatever it's called these days) subscribers will get a review before anyone else.



darthdevidem01 on 22 November 2010
ethomaz said:
cicohipe said:

Plus online servers arn't up yet.

Yeah. Reviews without online mode makes no sense for me.

Thats why IGN said their reviews out on Wednesday.....IGN said they've reviewed every other part of the game



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

twesterm on 22 November 2010

So that means GT5 is awful right?  I mean Sony doesn't want reviews in peoples hands because they know it's bad, right?  That's what people were telling me about this sort of thing last month...

(and yes, totally kidding, I don't expect to many reviews below a 9, it will be a great addition to the PS3 library, and GT5 will sell a shit-ton)



 

darthdevidem01 on 22 November 2010
twesterm said:

So that means GT5 is awful right?  I mean Sony doesn't want reviews in peoples hands because they know it's bad, right?  That's what people were telling me about this sort of thing last month...

(and yes, totally kidding, I don't expect to many reviews below a 9, it will be a great addition to the PS3 library, and GT5 will sell a shit-ton)

Sure you are tehehe



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

Robbie2010 on 22 November 2010

I hate embargos like this but since online mode is not active yet i can see some justifications for it.