Gamespot editor fired for bad Kane & Lynch review

Post by **deject** » November 30th, 2007, 4:41

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50134

TL;DR: Jeff Gerstmann give Kane & Lynch a 6.0/10 and says some mean things about the game. Eidos threatens to pull ad money from Gamespot. Gamespot fires Gerstmann.

megalolz (screenshot of Eidos' forums): http://www.apathymachine.com/gallery/d/ ... leidos.jpg

edit: pic of Gamespot US homepage: http://www.apathymachine.com/gallery/d/ ... mespot.jpg

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » November 30th, 2007, 4:46

Post by **deject** » November 30th, 2007, 5:32

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/ ... ws;alluser

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » November 30th, 2007, 6:42

apparently more editors are leaving gamespot now.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » November 30th, 2007, 8:56

Just had a quick look on the Eidos forums, wish I hadn't

naughty pictures

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 30th, 2007, 10:19

I'll never trust a Gamespot review then. I only listen to you lot and PCG anyway though (PCG incidentally gave said game something in the 60%s I think).

Post by **Roman Totale** » November 30th, 2007, 10:46

Eidos forums wrote:We are currently making a change to the forums. They will be up shortly. Please check back later.

Post by **HereComesPete** » November 30th, 2007, 12:13

It's still got that message up. I guess every time they re-open them, they get spammed with hate messages again.

Also, I wrote that I thought kane and lynch was like quadriplegics in a bath of treacle, 5punk isn't going to fire me is it?

Post by **fabyak** » November 30th, 2007, 12:17

maybe cover you in treacle and do bad things to you (although the term bad is relative I suppose) but that's about it!

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 30th, 2007, 12:18

Only if we lose an Eidos advertising contract.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » November 30th, 2007, 12:31

fabyak wrote:maybe cover you in treacle and do bad things to you (although the term bad is relative I suppose) but that's about it!

CIJJASIIE variation?

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » November 30th, 2007, 12:35

This really proves that Gamespot reviews are biased by the amount of ad money paid...

By the way:
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/ ... l?mode=web
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platfor ... nchdeadmen

Epic ohnoes.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » November 30th, 2007, 12:37

yep, yep it does

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » November 30th, 2007, 12:44

Okay, even more epic:

Post by **FatherJack** » November 30th, 2007, 13:09

Oh noes, I'll never trust a review from a site that runs adverts again! Er..hang on a minute.

I kind of assumed this bullshit went on, and that either the reviewer was naive or stupid to bite the hand that so obviously feeds - when you join an outfit like that you leave your integrity at the door.

Still, it wasn't exactly a scathing review or a totally crap score, and I despise the practice and what Eidos and GameSpot have done. I won't even take a lunch invite off suppliers of goods I use at work, and I don't want the divided loyalty of having adverts on 5punk. If I made a game though, you would all have to say it was ace.

Post by **tandino** » November 30th, 2007, 13:42

<a href="http://www.metacritic.com/games/">metacritic</a> is your friend!

I personally never trust just one review. It goes:

one review < many reviews < friend's review < personal playtest

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » November 30th, 2007, 15:15

Looks like I missed all the fun, I wanted to login and say "niggers". I understand that's what people do when trolling.

/edit
And this game is fairly crap, I tried it. Looks like a last gen game as well.

Post by **tandino** » November 30th, 2007, 15:27

spoodie wrote:Looks like I missed all the fun, I wanted to login and say "niggers". I understand that's what people do when trolling.

/edit
And this game is fairly crap, I tried it. Looks like a last gen game as well.

ZOMG you're hitlre yu fucin Joow!

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » November 30th, 2007, 16:18

tandino wrote: <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/games/">metacritic</a> is your friend!

I personally never trust just one review. It goes:

one review < many reviews < friend's review < personal playtest

Metacritic is also run by CNet. I don't want to trust it.

Post by **tandino** » November 30th, 2007, 16:36

Baliame wrote:
Metacritic is also run by CNet. I don't want to trust it.

Thing is though metacritic links to all the original reviews it uses to get scores (including referencing magazine reviews with page numbers etc). I feel you're pretty safe unless they're all in league with each other in some gargantuan pan-media review conspiracy. You'll note that although I put faith in metacritic, I'd rather have a (capable) friend review it, then play it myself if possible, then buy it.

EDIT

You'll notice also, that gamespot doesn't carry the same disclaimer (that I can see) in the about us section that metacritic do:

Metacritic wrote: Metacritic, through CNET, does sell advertising space throughout the site, but at no time do we allow advertisers to dictate any content (or scores) that you see on the site. Advertising sales are handled by CNET representatives, and are kept completely separate from the editorial staff.

Interesting...