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' Wrote:IGN rarely steers me wrong, although it has in the past.
When Army of 2 was released, they were sponsoring IGN. Their review gave it a 3/10 and ripped it to shreds for being an appalling game. That was awkward due to the whole sponsorship issue: you're reading a review about how terrible a game is while the adverts for it are flashing at you from the sides of the screen.
In any case, they sacked the guy and got another writer who was more amenable to their sponsors to write a new review. 'Surprisingly', the review score rose overnight.
' Wrote:You opinion is a bit childish, it is all about marketing the product and selling it.
Reviews should be based around fairly reviewing the game - hence the name... Advertising should be entirely separate to reviewing.