Eidos to media: Give Arkham Asylum a 90 or Batman will kill you
We do not comment on rumor or speculation. We comment on rumor and speculation – take that, overused statement!
Eidos, what have you gotten yourself into this time? Oh, it’s just another attempt to bend weaker minded individuals into giving your upcoming release, in this case Batman: Arkham Asylum, high review scores. This time around the method appears to be a false embargo. The RAM Raider reports that as long as your publication is willing to give Arkham Asylum the front page and a review score higher than 90 percent, feel free to post up that review. Anything less and forget it.
About the whole rumor and speculation bit; look, I really wouldn’t report on something I see as a bullshit smear campaign, but despite Eidos’ best efforts to slam this as little more than petty lies, I happen think otherwise.
If you stumble upon this Mr. Eidos, you know what you’ve done in the past and the following message is aimed squarely for your face. There was the Kane & Lynch travesty sparked by you, which led to a name within the industry, Jeff Gerstmann, getting fired and an entire publication losing a ton of credibility – though maybe I should thank you because it’s what spawned the best site on the internet, Giant Bomb. There’s also the whole Tomb Raider debacle, so please, spare us all the whiney bullshit. At this point it’s safer to assume that this is the case and you are being slimey, than it is to assume otherwise. Live with the consequences of your actions.
What would be all too telling and confirm this ordeal without a shadow of a doubt is if we start seeing the first review scores pop-up with the Dark Knight on the cover and 9.5’s galore.
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In a way, this can be self-defeating.
Now if 9+ scores start appearing, we might assume they were given for this reason and not because the game’s actually good – even if it is.
Maybe the Dark Asylum will be of enough quality to really warrant 9 scores, but now how we can trust that?
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