so, are you all at gamespot trying to fix your problems with getting reviews out late? or are you just going to keep linking to other sites for their reviews and hope we all go somewhere else for our reviews?
Review Updates
It's been a while since I posted anything here. Sorry about that. Given that we're in the thick of what is arguably the busiest reviews season ever, I figured I should update you on what we're working on and why, in some cases, reviews might not be hitting the site as early as you (or...
It's been a while since I posted anything here. Sorry about that. Given that we're in the thick of what is arguably the busiest reviews season ever, I figured I should update you on what we're working on and why, in some cases, reviews might not be hitting the site as early as you (or we) would like. In no particular order, here goes:
Gears of War 2 - This is being handled by our UK team, who were able to get their hands on retail code almost a full week before we were. The review is under embargo until Monday, 2pm UK time, 6am Pacific, so expect our review to hit around that time.
Guitar Hero: World Tour - We had originally planned to post this review first thing on Monday (10.27), but our resident expert has had a particularly nasty case of the flu all week. He's on the road to recovery now, and the review will be posting this coming Monday.
Dead Space - While our review for the Xbox 360 version was up in time for the game's release, we didn't receive PS3 and PC versions until after the game was already in stores. Rather than just post the same review for all three platforms and hope that there are no significant differences, we opted (as we always do) to wait until we could spend plenty of time with the other versions before reviewing them. The PS3 and PC reviews will be appearing on the site later today.
Resistance 2 - We've had retail code for this one for a while, and today (during our gameplay marathon) we'll be checking out the eight-player co-op support with an all-GameSpot crew for the first time. Review is scheduled to go live on Monday.
Tom Clancy's EndWar - This is another one that we received retail code for well in advance of the game's release. Review will hit Monday or Tuesday of next week.
James Bond: Quantum of Solace - Another opportunity for our UK team to flex their editorial muscles. They were able to get their hands on retail code (X360 only at the time of this writing) even before we received a debug-console-only review version. Also, the movie is out in the UK already.
If the game you're waiting for a review of isn't mentioned here, it's not because we've forgotten about it. We're doing everything we can to bring you reviews in a timely fashion, but we don't always receive code in a timely fashion. We refuse to sacrifice quality by rushing reviews, and we still want to make sure that every game is reviewed by the person on the team who is best qualified to do so. Also, please don't think that because we review only one version of a game that it's because we don't care about the other platforms that it's appearing on. Fact is, we're often sent only one version prior to the game's release, and more often than not (for reasons beyond our control) it tends to be the Xbox 360 version.
In other news, we're going to be launching a new reviews-related feature that I'm really excited about early next week. It's something I've been wanting to do on GameSpot for a while, and, well... I'll tell you all about it soon. 
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The Resistance 2 review is in the works. The retail servers didn't go online until 9pm last night, so right now we have an office full of people playing multiplayer.
of course the Resistance 2 review isn't done yet.It's a PS3 game.The 360 games are played and reviewed first and if there's time they'll do something for the PS3.I mean the Gears of War 2 review is done and posted and the game only comes out in 3 days.So why isn't there any Resistance 2 review if this game comes out today?
This section is pretty cool. It makes us feel like a real part of the gamespot community. Letting us know whats going on about why reviews are turning out and late and what not. Thanks for the heads up gamespot!
Aiya all i things i hate its fanboys groupies. Oh JustiveCovert wouldn't it be nice to interview former interplay on their views of Fallout 3 just a thought
Yeah monday could be a bad day for the fanboys! I just hope Gamespot get it right. I have a feeling Resistance 2 will get a better review then Gears 2 though personally i dont think it deserves it. Insomniac copied a lot from GOW1 and other games like HL2 and COD4. I felt like i was revisiting things i had done before in the marathon (crash landing at start was nearly the same as COD etc..). Now there is nowt wrong with copying, we all do it to some degree! I just thought it was a time RE2 could come out and say "this is new and never been done before, this is new and never been done before" etc.. have it's own feel to it, make it distinctivly it's own image. But i didnt get that really. But that is just my view. I accept some people will love it and some will dislike it. I just hope the review is right for both of them wether that be to give it a low score or a high score.
@bruno_fmenedes: The Wii review for World of Goo is in the works and scheduled to go live on Monday. @LastPRmarine: Though Gears of War 2 is being reviewed in the UK, all of us in the US have already had an opportunity to contribute to the review. Oh, and I finished the game yesterday. :)
Cool, can't wait for the EndWar review. That's my #1 thing for Christmas and I want to see what you guys think. I've got four on my Christmas list this year, Medieval II: Total War, World In Conflict, Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway and EndWar. In addition to that I'm gettin' a new comp, mine is a piece of gaming crap. I would have gotten Med II and WiC earlier if not for my crappy system. Oh well! More to look forward to! Keep up the good work!
Keep up the good work ^^. Great review of Fallout 3. Was just disappointed that Fallout 3 is coming to Hong Kong Nov 20-10 Dec =(
How will you review Silent Hill: Homecoming for the PC if it doesn't even have a release date yet?
Gears of War 2 should be "reviewed" by everyone US or UK plus sometimes Americans have different opinions than the British. Where they might not like something we might but that's only sometimes.And GS staff don't get mad because I'm saying all of you should get together and chainsaw each other or together. EndWar should get around an 7.5-9.0 around that range And Resistance 2 and Gears 2 should get the same scores or close scores 9.0-10
I'm only referring to the cheaper Wii version, because I noticed that the PC version has been reviewed (great review by the way).
Dead Space for PS3 and PC is hecka live. Silent Hill is something I still don't have retail for because we never received it from Konami, so we're going to have to go buy it ourselves. I should have it done next week for both PC and PS3 hopefully.
I looking forward to your "World of Goo" review. I know it's probably not a very demanded review on the site, but I'm hoping it hits the site next week. But please, at least review it before deciding the nominees for each "Best of 2008" award, because I guaranty you that it deserves to be nominated for some categories. And I wouldn't be very surprised to see it among the 10 best games of the year. Yes it's really THAT good (at least in my opinion).
Where's the PS3 Silent Hill: Homecoming review? It's been out since the end of September? Was it so scary that it couldn't be reviewed?
@richaku: I can't speak to IGN's review policies, but we prefer to wait for retail code than base our reviews on unfinished "review copies", and we also never do exclusive reviews - being first with a review just isn't important to us. Being right with a review is everything.
[QUOTE="richaku"]ign gets the codes though they review games days and somtimes weeks before gamespot just go over and read their reviews for gh:wt and resistance2 theyve had those reviews for a couple weeks now[/QUOTE] Yeah, but just because IGN has the review code doesn't mean other sites will have it as well. It all depends on when the publishers send the codes out to each site.
ign gets the codes though they review games days and somtimes weeks before gamespot just go over and read their reviews for gh:wt and resistance2 theyve had those reviews for a couple weeks now
The UK team seems to be getting a lot of games to review these days.
So a new feature is going live next week, eh? Cool, looking forward to finding out what it is.
It's been a while since I posted anything here. Sorry about that. Given that we're in the thick of what is arguably the busiest reviews season ever, I figured I should update you on what we're working on and why, in some cases, reviews might not be hitting the site as early as you (or we) would like. In no particular order, here goes:
Gears of War 2 - This is being handled by our UK team, who were able to get their hands on retail code almost a full week before we were. The review is under embargo until Monday, 2pm UK time, 6am Pacific, so expect our review to hit around that time.
Guitar Hero: World Tour - We had originally planned to post this review first thing on Monday (10.27), but our resident expert has had a particularly nasty case of the flu all week. He's on the road to recovery now, and the review will be posting this coming Monday.
Dead Space - While our review for the Xbox 360 version was up in time for the game's release, we didn't receive PS3 and PC versions until after the game was already in stores. Rather than just post the same review for all three platforms and hope that there are no significant differences, we opted (as we always do) to wait until we could spend plenty of time with the other versions before reviewing them. The PS3 and PC reviews will be appearing on the site later today.
Resistance 2 - We've had retail code for this one for a while, and today (during our gameplay marathon) we'll be checking out the eight-player co-op support with an all-GameSpot crew for the first time. Review is scheduled to go live on Monday.
Tom Clancy's EndWar - This is another one that we received retail code for well in advance of the game's release. Review will hit Monday or Tuesday of next week.
James Bond: Quantum of Solace - Another opportunity for our UK team to flex their editorial muscles. They were able to get their hands on retail code (X360 only at the time of this writing) even before we received a debug-console-only review version. Also, the movie is out in the UK already.
If the game you're waiting for a review of isn't mentioned here, it's not because we've forgotten about it. We're doing everything we can to bring you reviews in a timely fashion, but we don't always receive code in a timely fashion. We refuse to sacrifice quality by rushing reviews, and we still want to make sure that every game is reviewed by the person on the team who is best qualified to do so. Also, please don't think that because we review only one version of a game that it's because we don't care about the other platforms that it's appearing on. Fact is, we're often sent only one version prior to the game's release, and more often than not (for reasons beyond our control) it tends to be the Xbox 360 version.
In other news, we're going to be launching a new reviews-related feature that I'm really excited about early next week. It's something I've been wanting to do on GameSpot for a while, and, well... I'll tell you all about it soon. :)
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