I'm not sure what's worse - websites that write funny articles, or people who can't be bothered to actually read them before they complain.
Really?
What else are you going to do on the internet?
Nah, they just didn't have art for Kiki - she looks nothing like that. Rockstar has only ever referred to the girl with the lollipop as "Lollipop Girl," and she's not a character that actually shows up as part of the story. It's just like with every other GTA, where they add a few random hookers or bikini girls to their official art.
I don't know, man - I can't imagine an 11-year-old would have stubble like the guy in that author picture. Or wax nostalgically about NES games like he does.
And how many game journalists do you know, sum total? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess "zero." Yeah, I'll grant you that this is a big industry with fairly low standards of professionalism, and that there are a lot of self-proclaimed "journalists" out there who are fairly odious to be around. But that's still a pretty ridiculous generalization.
While I'm at it, it's a pretty piss-poor journalist who'd sell his or her soul for a T-shirt or a plastic toy....
Dude, it's just a joke.
Because it's not a demo. It's a review, and the standards are very different - especially when you run Sony's official magazine and you answer to the company itself.
Yeah, totally. We only want to see REAL tiger testicles, not ones that showed up in Super Nintendo games.
I guess you'd know, since you visit it so often.
No reason to apologize; it used to be a small, UK-only site, but went multinational like two years ago.
But they ARE a US site. Their US staff is a lot bigger than their UK staff.
Wow, so "credibility" means "validating the opinions of angry fanboys" now? Huh. I should write that down or something.
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Yeah, I got nothin'.
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You get a bubble for actually checking up on this instead of just having a knee-jerk reaction.
The last page says, "We still haven't actually played GTA IV yet, although that's coming soon - as is our first look at the PS3 version of the game, which up until now we've only seen running on Xbox 360 hardware." Meaning their first look at the PS3 version is coming soon.
You're apparently the only one here to actually read the article.
I would have bought it even if it'd had a big, hairy turd on the cover, but that's not what the author is saying. It doesn't matter if I like it or not - the sad fact is that there's nothing on that box that's eye-catching if you don't know anything about Half-Life. And that's a shame, because TOB is the best thing that's come out all year, and some people are going to overlook it completely because of the art.
Yeah, totally. These so-called "journalists" need to stop basing their reviews on firsthand experience and start scoring games based on what people who haven't played them yet are going to think.
"The start of this article just said "lets forget about everything that makes this game good." And went to talk about the problems. THAT ISN"T A REVIEW."
What article were you reading? I didn't see this one saying anything like that at all.
That was actually released in Japan, so it shouldn't count. You can buy it at stores that sell old video games over there.