Re: Game Reviews: Spoiled By The Internet

On 9/20/2024 11:34 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 But, man, those early reviews were _shoddy_. It didn't seem to matter
what magazine either; they were all universally shallow. Two-thirds of
each review just unquestioningly rehashed the game's box-copy, and
then the reviewers gave their opinions. There was almost no analysis
or deep-dive into what was actually good or bad about the games; at
most we got stuff like, "It was fun" or "it seemed a bit hard to
play".
 

Weren't most reviews at that time written before the game was finished, let alone released for a reviewer to actually try to play it?
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