Thats why they don't have car shows like top gear in the US. The NY Times gave one of the big 3 auto makers new models a bad review a few years ago and lost several million in advertising over the next couple of years.
It's what big business does to protect their assets and it sucks. These days you pretty much have to skew game reviews and read 50% as the bottom line, unless its a little known game but a nobody publisher. These days a commercial game has to score 80%+ or more to make me show much interest. Occasionaly I'll give a game the benefit of the doubt if it looks interesting, and is in a genre I'm particularly fond of.
At least gamespot has the gamers rating to balance out the review. I remember Amped 1 got a terrible review for Xbox and it was the best snow boarding game I had ever played at the time. User reviews gave it the score it deserved :).
Something like this happened with Assasins creed on the PS3. Some review mentioned the slow down and freezing of the game in the initial review, the comments were removes, the gaming news media noticed and started asking questions, next thing you know the review was put back to its original form.
It's what big business does to protect their assets and it sucks. These days you pretty much have to skew game reviews and read 50% as the bottom line, unless its a little known game but a nobody publisher. These days a commercial game has to score 80%+ or more to make me show much interest. Occasionaly I'll give a game the benefit of the doubt if it looks interesting, and is in a genre I'm particularly fond of.
At least gamespot has the gamers rating to balance out the review. I remember Amped 1 got a terrible review for Xbox and it was the best snow boarding game I had ever played at the time. User reviews gave it the score it deserved :).
Something like this happened with Assasins creed on the PS3. Some review mentioned the slow down and freezing of the game in the initial review, the comments were removes, the gaming news media noticed and started asking questions, next thing you know the review was put back to its original form.