@AJ_habfan

it got the 9/10 from some blog if I remember correctly

the first review was the EGM one where it got a 4

So Halo getting 9/10 & 10/10's across the board wasn't suspicous but because it's a Sony game in question there must be some foul play.

you're a hack. 

1.  They could have released this game during the holiday season.  It's been done for awhile, but they gave R2 space and kept tuning it.  Should they not give their OFFICIAL magazines some freaking exclusives?  Those magazines have been quite fair so far, btw.  Warhawk was killed in PSM/OPM by the freaking Editor in Chief in (I believe) his first issue after Chris Slate left.

2.  Everyone knows that publishers rarely allow bad reviews to go out early.  Everyone tries to manipulate aggragate sites.

3.  You are "suspicious" because it's a big PS3 game.  This is not out of line; reviews often come out this early and you know it, especially for games as big as this.

4.  The underhanded craftyness is all from you.

I don't think that this is shady at all. In fact, I think that by giving reviewers the game that early and saying go ahead and review it, is going to give an even better idea of how good the game is. Thanks to all the time allowed, the big sites that will wait tell the last minute to post reviews will have had a lot of time with the game. This will give them a better feel for just how good the game is. If IGN, Gmaespot, and 1up are still happy enough with the game come Febuary 20th or so, then that is really saying something.

As long as we don't see GTAIV type of reviews I don't see any issue.
Beta players were positive about the game (which is not Sony-bias, since they weren't about Resistance 2) and the game DOES look great.

Hype will, unfortunately, play a role in a lot of reviews, but that's not a Sony-thing. That happens for Gears, Halo, Mario and Zelda as well.

I think it's a new scary trend that could take over in our future. Tomb Raider tried to get away with it. Prince of Persia did it quite successfully. Now Killzone 2, maybe. Based off previews I think it's going to score well anyway. It's just that 1 review that we know got pulled that triggers thoughts of foul play.

It's not that long to wait though. I feel sorry for the first site to publish a bad review of KZ2. They are going to have armies marching to their gates to take em down.

Every reviewer that didnt give LBP was either biased or paid by MS so dont go there,oh dont forget its not a credible source.

Jeez people, character assassination is so awesome. I was a beta user too, and I said that it was an awesome game. What I question is the fact that the review embargo ends so soon. The real question is WHY are the reviews coming out so early?

I don't have a problem with the game receiving high reviews, I want it to because that justifys the position I had from playing the beta. I don't want to consider the reviews tainted, but the timing makes them feel that way to me. The questions I have are in regard to the timing of the releases, it seems if they want to have a hand in the review process the situation they have contrived seems ideal to do so.

I know that Publishers get their hands dirty with reviewers all the time, its common industry practice. The thing is, this time it stands out even more.

@CGI

to be fair we have given Halo 3 loads of crap for paid reviews back in 07

but now SONY hardly has money....they aren't going to spend money to buy reviews instead of making sure the game is polished

Oh yea this game is looking NICE!! They polished the hell out of this game! The wall shadows look 40% better.