Eidos Wants Negative Tomb Raider Reviews Delayed, Seeking High Metacritic Score
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skinlab133
replyJust make good games and this becomes a non-issue.
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Well that would be true if the reviews of the game were accurate... but they are not. Now Edios is up to no good here no doubt. At the same time As a publisher of a game that's pretty good (I played the PC demo, it's not amazing but it's not 'bad') and then to have a bunch of reviews come out rating the game in the 50's or 60's because it's not the second coming has to be pretty frustrating.
I tend to start reading reviews of a game when I am like half way through. I go to Metacritic and look at the top and bottom reviews and both tend to be total bullshit. A few people always love a game and a few hate it.
Now if I were a publisher and I looked at a game I was about to put out and honestly assessed it at a 80 I would hate for the first reviews of it to come out to be 50's because the reviewer thought Laura's breasts were too small or they only like strategy games or third person games with cover systems...
Now that said Edios is way out of line. But much of the gaming press has it's head up it's ass so I kind of feel the publishers pain.
