Dec 5, 2007
Enter the US side of Eidos' , and you are greeted by an unintentionally appropriate quote taken from Game Informer magazine, which ends: "What could go wrong?". Well, cripes, wheღre do we start?
Even the most casual o꧂f internet-fed gamers must be aware of the firestorm raging around IO Interactive's new game. And Kane %26amp; Lynch's profile certainly hasn't been bolstered by accusations of Eidosallegedly advertised on the official site, or the now surrounding the of GameSpot writer Jeff Gerstmann, rumoured, initially, to have beenlaid offover an unfavourablereview of the game.
GameSpot admits in that Eidos had "expressed [its] displeasure" over the Kane %26amp; Lynch review, which no doubt sat awkwardly alongside the sizeable already running on the site. But GameSpot that Eidos had anyth🍒ing directly to do with Gerstmann being shown the door, emphasising that "strict GameSpot policy"preve🐼nts any review score or video review to be altered or changed as a result of publisher pressure.
Realistically, we'll probably never know whatactually happened, especially since GameSpot stresses that the exact reasons for the sacking for legal reasons.But it's clear the Kane %26 Lynch coverage had something to do with it - the offending video review posted by Gerstmannwas taken down almost immediately. GameSpot explains this wasdue to audio problems anda "limited a𓆏mount" of ingame footage. Also, the text reviews significantly, in order to "better mesh with[the game's]🤡score".
So why was it that Kane %26 Lynch has found itself at the center of an internet scandal? What is it about this game that caused so much hurt?
#1 Chart results have been disappointing
Kane %26 Lynch hasn't bombed - in the UK it's at 4th in the PS3 charts, up from 5th. But you can't really call it a huge success, either. The Xbox 360 version currently sits at 31st in the US all format table (collated by NPD) and even including copies shifted across all three formats it hasn't yet breached 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the top 10 in ཧthe UK. Just to put that in context: There are two Dr Kawashima br🌳ain games in the UK top 10.
