Das wel heel triest. Zegt genoeg over de game trouwens.

damn das echt triest hoor... waar zijn die reviews voor? OWJA om ervoor te zorgen dat de consument zen geld niet verspild...

Triest, ik wist wel dat eidos zoog

volgens mij had ign toch een 7.5 ofzo gegeven

Ign gaf het 8.5

8.5 of 7.5 het maakt mij persoonlijk niet zo veel uit wat de scores ZIJN maar het verhaal WAAROM is voor mij belangrijker.

Demo was vet, deze game zal het spelen zeker waard zijn. Geld is een andere zaak. En die review scores, who gives a f***. Die dingen kloppen toch niet helemaal, remember GTA?

ign gaf een 7.5, ign uk gaf een 8,5
volgens mij klopt er geen hol van dat verhaal, als je op gamerankings kijkt bij de 360 versie, tot nu toe 13 reviews met 1 7,5 3 7's en ook een 6.

dat het PR agentschap Barrington Harvey alle Britse reviewers vroeg om scores die lager dan 8/10 zijn, pas volgende week online te gooien.

En waarom zouden ze daar dan naar luisteren?

@im2duvi: om op een goed blaadje te staan bij het PR bureau; dat je de games bezorgt samen met snoepreisjes en what not... }>

@ im2duvi: Money, money.

Dat slaat echt nergens op, is echt té dom dat ze tegenwoordig zulke invloed hebben. Maar of dit echt iets over de kwaliteit zegt betwijfel ik, zo slecht kan hij haast niet zijn

Dit bericht klopt helemaal niet. De PR firma van Eidos heeft enkel gevraagd aan Game-sites die een preview versie kregen van TRU, dat ze geen reviews zouden publiceren voor de releasedatum.
Indien er 1 of andere idioot van het PR agentschap iets meer zou hebben gevraagd, dan is dat enkel zijn persoonlijke verantwoordelijkheid, niet die van de PR firma en zeker niet van Eidos.

Re: SCI: Sack your PR firm!
seanyuk
Vandaag, 16:23
Eidos UK PR not telling reviewers what they "can and cannot say"
Posted: 24.11.2008 05:08 by Technet2k Comments: 1
Barrington Harvey is Eidos' chosen PR firm in the UK and has drawn their videogaming client under fire for some rather ill-advised 'requests' to reviewers.

While an embargo for reviews is a standard affair, asking for those that score below an 8 to stay silent for a little while longer certainly doesn't sit well. Someone's been naughty.

The game that's caused all the ruckus is Tomb Raider: Underworld as a message went out to Gamespot UK's Guy Cocker (*snigger*), who then posted on his Twitter that Eidos had asked "if you're planning on reviewing Tomb Raider Underworld at less than an 8.0, we need you to hold your review till Monday."

Why the gamble with such a PR blunderbuss? Well Barrington Harvey weren't shy to admit it was "trying to get the Metacritic rating to be high". Oh dear.

The rep speaking on their behalf put their foot in more of it as they continued, saying the "brand manager in the US that’s handling all of Tomb Raider has asked that we just manage the scores before the game is out, really, just to ensure that we don’t put people off buying the game, basically." You work for PR? Really?

You may remember the whole furore a while back concerning Eidos, Gamespot and little game called Kane & Lynch. Whether Eidos had anything to do with the dismissal of a journalist is ultimately irrelevant as the damage had already been done by the end.

"Barrington Harvey is not in the position of telling reviewers what they can and cannot say. We love Tomb Raider and believe it merits a score of at least 8/10, but if someone disagrees that’s entirely their prerogative. No problem at all. Seriously: no problem," says Simon Byron, a director at Barrington Harvey.

See below for the full statement from PR firm Barrington Harvey.



Barrington Harvey is not in the position of telling reviewers what they can and cannot say. We love Tomb Raider and believe it merits a score of at least 8/10, but if someone disagrees that’s entirely their prerogative. No problem at all. Seriously: no problem.

Our original NDA stated that in order to receive an advance copy of the game, reviewers agreed not to post reviews ahead of 5:00pm, Wednesday 19th November 2008. Nothing else. No further obligations whatsoever.

As you can clearly see from the scores posted so far, Barrington Harvey has no issue with scores of below eight out of 10 being posted online. The Eurogamer review in questions caused “problems” in so much as it originally contained a couple of minor factual inaccuracies which, to its credit, the site has quickly rectified and addressed (without, quite rightly, changing the context of the review).

Any site, be it Gamespot or whoever, is entirely within their rights to post whatever score they want and no-one is under any sort of obligation to delay any review.

As an ex-journalist myself, I firmly believe in editorial integrity and the right to express an individual opinion. As an agency, we never - ever - make demands of the press in terms of awarding scores; at the end of the day, they are free to score as they wish.

Barrington Harvey has been working hard to ensure the launch scores of Tomb Raider Underworld are in line with our internal review predictions over the launch weekend - but to suggest that we can in some way “silence” reviews of the game is slightly overstating our influence.

Source: VG247