I have a free subscription to EGM right now but when that is over, I will be giving them my money to reward them for showing a little integrity in an industry full of whores.

Go EGM.

Or it could be that people find it a problem that a company would insist that reviewers don't mention something that most people would find as negative flaw of the game.

If reviewers can start telling review magazines that they can't review flaws in the game... what's the point of reviews?

It's got nothing to do with the score.  I'm sure the scores would silently reflect those flaws anwyay... however the lack of information to the public... is just distrubing. 

Everyone is right here.

Konami can place whatever restrictions it wants on its games and rags may choose to follow them or break them.  Konami should be run the way the people in control of the company want it run as long as it does don't terrible things.

Rags may give games whatever score they want or non at all.  Keep in mind the EGM only reviews a tiny % of the total games and they don't review many of the big games.

This has nothing to do with freedom of the press.  That has to do with the press and its interactions with governments and laws.

Benga, are you calling for more regulations and laws on how videogame companies run?  It looks that way and that is the exact opposite of what is best for gamers.  The less connected governments and game companies are, the better it is for all of us. 

I disagree. Honest reviewers need to point out what kind of restrictions the early review whores are under and how they sacrificed integrity to achieve their goal of extra copies sold and extra website hits. 

its konami's game, they can do what they want.
plus, its obvious that EGM slants towards 360, they put GOW2 on their cover instead of MGS4.

Fanboy much? Defending Konami for this type of behavior is ridiculous and trying to turn the argument on EGM is even more absurd. You sound like a corporate schill.

BTW, I think MGS4 just went from "buy" to "rent". Shame on you, Konami. This kind of attitude toward journalists absolutely repulses me.

I can pretty much guarantee you that MGS4 has appeared on the cover of EGM a number of times equal to or greater than Gears of War 2. The big story of the month goes on the cover, not one game that is merely due for review.

 Just saying, you would be surprised how many devs do this.

 Because you get the game in advance to review it, you should let go your journalistic integrity? Reviewers need to tell their readers exactly what they need to know. A 4GB installation and 90 minutes cutscenes is a really important thing for a lot of people to know. It's important for people that are uncertain to get the game. Those that never played a MGS before and are reading the review to know if their kind of game.