A sarcastic editorial

Well this brand new site called Gamespot certainly caused a stir this week. I don’t know if you heard, but…. they gave an average review to Kane and Lynch! OMG!!!! Inconceivable!?!?!?!?

I’ve played the game and it certainly is not average. In fact, it sucks. The characters sound alike, the story is hackneyed and the controls play like an epileptic frisbee game. For a AAA title, from the makers of Tomb Raider and the Hitmen games, I expected more. Much more.

Anyway, after playing the game, I would have given the game a 3.5 at best, but the “renegades” at Gamespot allegedly got a ton of dough from Eidos, effectively bumping the score up to a 6.0. An above average review? How did this happen?

Find out, after the jump!

Eidos Marketing Strategery 101: Paying Everyone Off!

Way to go Eidos!

*Golf clap*

Not only did you successfully spend enough money to get a mediocre game review for your otherwise crappy game, but you did it in style! Not fit to simply and silently, pay off Gamespot, Eidos managed to announce to the world on Friday that not only do they expect “fixed” reviews, but they actually pay sites to do it. The renegades at Gamespot went out of their way to oblige Eidos. They even took it a step farther when they allegedly fired a long time editor fired over the video review of Kane and Lynch that wasn’t “peppy” enough for Eidos. Way to throw your money around Eidos!

Brilliant!

Your Strategery paid off! Free publicity and a better game score! Money well spent! Plus you saved a ton of money when you pulled your advertising campaign…after the score was published. Why? Who cares! That little maneuver must have saved you a ton of dough. EA would be proud!

You’d think that other game companies *cough* Sony *cough* would follow suit. In fact, I think I’ll just sit back and watch the EA money start to roll in… By the way, did I tell you how much I love Def Jam: Icon? I gave it a 6 out of ten…

UPDATE: Mountain Dew ads are gone from_Gamespot.

Previous coverage of this Gamespotgate:

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Rumor: Gamespot_Fires_Editor_over_Bad_Score

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