Maybe with them spending their time reviewing the game it's actually benefited them to see how much the backlash has grown. They probably weighed their options up and thought "Damn. F*** this...if I give it a good score to lick EA's ass this site is going to become more of a joke, I mean Jesus people still remember the too much water thing"

I'm willing to bet the 4 sites who gave it a great score and never mentioned the awful anti consumer tactics you see on Metacritic regret doing so now.

It's only cause $h!t hit the fan before reviews were in. The outrage across the board was already there. Had gamers not spoken up, it would be like every other game full of microtransactions. They woulda gave it a high score and then after gamers bitched, they woulda posted up articles after the fact alluding to now that they've spent more time with the game they can see problems with it. Any site giving this a high score is gonna get dogged on.

I'm not surprised. IGN would be committing suicide to their integrity once again by siding with an atrocious game. this situation was one where IGN could not afford to be shills.

Ign isn't one person though. It's not like one review by one person discredits 10 other reviewers opinions on other games. At least it shouldn't.
You should rather watch out for, and not trust the reviewer of Evolve, not the whole of Ign.

Sure, someone approves the reviews but that doesn't mean they are in charge of censoring the reviewer. If the reviewer though the game was good or bad that's their opinion. The guy approving the reviews is probably only there to double check for errors (spelling, grammar, etc.) Like Stupidusername said, there are many reviewers and many different opinions at IGN or any site with multiple reviewers.

the backlash is already getting too big and their reputation (or what's left of it) might suffer even more if they chose to side with EA on this.