Un tío de lo más normal, ojo, que por ser normal ya es algo a destacar eh, no nos confundamos.
No es que me suela fijar apasionadamente en las notas que pueda determinar algunos redactores de medios impresos o webs de cierta relevancia informativa… o no. Lo que ocurre es que estas cosas suelen tocarme la fibra, además de mala manera, porque caemos en el engaño más exacerbado y en los montajes que tanto criticamos en otros medios. Después pueden salir al paso diciendo que tal o cual cosa, pero vamos, un servidor está harto de ver ciertas noticias en el sector:
“Eidos UK PR firm Barrington Harvey has confirmed that British sites are being asked not to post Tomb Raider: Underworld reviews with scores lower than 80 percent until Monday.
The game releases today for 360 and PS3.
Gamespot UK journalist Guy Cocker revealed the tactic in a Twitter post on Wednesday that said: “call from Eidos–if you’re planning on reviewing Tomb Raider Underworld at less than an 8.0, we need you to hold your review till Monday.”
Said a Barrington Harvey rep on the phone this afternoon: “That’s right. We’re trying to manage the review scores at the request of Eidos.”
When asked why, the spokesperson said: “Just that we’re trying to get the Metacritic rating to be high, and 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.”
British site Eurogamer has already gone live with a 7/10 score, an act the rep said had caused “problems”.
OXM UK has also posted a 7.0 score.
The news is unlikely to go down well. Eidos’s efforts at controlling review scores are still fresh in the mind: it was a row over Gamespot’s 6/10 review of Kane & Lynch that cost popular US journalist Jeff Gerstmann his job.
Tomb Raider: Underworld’s Metacritic average stands at 78 percent.”
Quien no se acuerde de lo ocurrido con Kane & Lynch, pues que mire por ahí, que haga memoria y revise ciertas noticias y diretes del mundillo referente al lanzamiento de este título, todo lo ocurrido con Gamespot, madre mía…
