LAIR got a brilliant preview on IGN.....so did HAZE

I think it's rather weak to only blame the previewers, because - as has been said - there are sometimes legal consequences (as developers can always say "it is still in production, so bashing it is unfair").

And those sites / magazines live off of their ability to preview / review games, so they are not going to bite the hand that feeds them games.

A review is less dangerous, since then the audience can judge for themselves anyway.

So.

Can yo please give me some games that follow this trend?

Lair: Bad previews, bad review

Haze: Bad preview, bad review

Too Human: Bad previews, bad review.

Seems pretty across the board to me.

Reminds me of Alone In The Dark.... ^

Reading that preview, it sounds a lot like a Reviews of yesteryear in the old gaming mags for the Genesis\Snes...

In fact I wish they would talk up games and let us try them out, these people can't write for anything.

I've written letters to girlfriends in the past with better grammer and more depth (admittedly my posts aren't exactly full of punctuation but I'm not going for a writing job!) :)

lol...I so agree with all these posts. And mrstickball, I totally agree, Gamespot gave Two Worlds so much hype and excellent review that I wanted to play it, but I couldn't and they made my cousin believe that Two Worlds was better than Oblivion...lol

I ecurbj, stand here today and declare that reviewers in general suck, they don't know anything, get paid for nonsense and are bias, and I will make and judge and buy games on my own merit.

Thanks...

Well, unless a game is laughably bad, they'd probably hype it just to get the page views. If you thought a game was gonna be the shit, of course you're gonna wanna see pics/gameplay video, etc. And then these sites get more traffic and ad money.

Actually those games were getting hype and nice previews up until the review came out. And that's when those games failed.

So sad, I'm going to buy Haze anyway..cause its a nice looking shooter. It might of got torn up from the floor up with what reviewers said, but I want to make my judgement. And I won't buy the game at $60, but at $30, heck yeah.

One thing I can't believe is that IGN kept making quick fixes lists for Too Human, yet Slilicon Knights didn't pay attention, surely they noticed the problems!?

 Assasins Creed!!!!

Haze actually got good previews, so did Infinte Undiscovery, Blue Dragon, Sega Rally Revo got astoudingly good previews...

I'm not having a go at the people doing the previews specifically, more the whole culture of how these sites operate their piss take of a buisness. Its completely amateur and in this day and age where computer games sales are up there with movies\etc we should be getting better!

Its the recruiters at the sites that need their balls chopping off, people at local news papers do a better job.

This reminds me of Dragon Blade on the Wii.

Everyone was saying it would be a sleeper hit and it's ratings are really really poor.