Seinfeld26 wroteAzrael wroteSeinfeld26 wroteI probably trust game reviews more than I should. For example, I really enjoyed the demo for Crash Of The Titans. And the game still earned lukewarm reviews. IGN tends to be my most trusted site, since I usually find their reviews to be the most in-depth and detailed. But I'm also a fan of Gamespot. It's also interesting to check reader reviews on Gamefaqs, even though some of them have their facts completely wrong.
IGN hasn't failed me once. wasn't gamespot accused of taking bribes with that Kane & Lynch game?
Yeah, I heard about that. I don't really know all the details, though.
Gamespot gave Kane & Lynch a really terrible score, like 4.0 if I remember right. The review was pulled from the site for unknown reasons, but according to rumours the company that created the game (Eidos, I think) had paid Gamespot for ad space for their game prior to the review's release, and supposedly had forced Gamespot to take down the review, or be taken down themselves, lol. Anyway, the dude who wrote the review got his ass fired, and everyone went fucking crazy and threatened to leave the site. Gamespot lost a lot of cash, around 100k dollars, or something like that because so many paying subscribers left and joined IGN. Of course, Gamespot denied the rumours about the reviewer being fired because Eidos told them to, but nobody believes them. That's basically it.
Oh, and supposedly the review was pulled down, edited, and put back up, because the review is still on the site.