Jeff Gerstmann Fired for Giving A Low Review

[tbone4690]

http://valleywag.com/tech/jeff-gerstmann/gamespot-editor--on-fired-reviewer-328775.php

Why do I think this was a Sony game? I'm sure it was a Sony game that got a low review, because a lot of the AAA games that have come out the last few weeks haven't been that great and the majority of them were Sony titles.

[stonyarc]

a very strange story yet again.

Seems like these kind of things are happening all over

[tbone4690]

there are widespread boycotts, and many major game news sites are up in arms with Gamespot pulling this. I wouldn't be surprised if we see Jeff back on Monday.

[tbone4690]

http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/2007/11/gamespot-boycotts-get-nasty.html

[tbone4690]

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From what I see, this game deserved what it got, that is a big disappointment to me. The screens I saw of this game never made me think it would be this bad. Thanks a lot for ruining a game that could of been so much more. I hope the movie is much better than this.

Oh this is the original review that got him fired, has been pulled off of gamespot, but youtube always has its way of getting the good vids. :)

[Phantom1977]

A bad review for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, got him fired :eek:.

Haven't played the game myself, so i can say how it is either way (good or bad). But from how he described it, sounds like a rental at best.

Makes you wonder what kind of pull Eidos Interactive has to get him fired, or gamespot could just be scared of something happening.

[tbone4690]

No, Eidos has been spending a lot of money for advertising of the game especially on Gamespot, and when this review came out apparently Eidos was going to pull the money they had spent with Gamespot, thus Gamespot fired him pretty much because they were going to lose money for something he truthfully said.

[Phantom1977]

No, Eidos has been spending a lot of money for advertising of the game especially on Gamespot, and when this review came out apparently Eidos was going to pull the money they had spent with Gamespot, thus Gamespot fired him pretty much because they were going to lose money for something he truthfully said.

I know something wasn't right with gamespot, that's why i only use ign (though it is a part of the same company).

[tbone4690]

IGN is the most apparent one doing this, reviews have never made any sense on their site. I could tell so much that before the launch of the ps3 months in fact or a year, they were pushing the ps3 like crazy. Never once saw one bad news post on the ps3, but there were plenty of bad Xbox 360 posts.

[Phantom1977]

IGN is the most apparent one doing this, reviews have never made any sense on their site. I could tell so much that before the launch of the ps3 months in fact or a year, they were pushing the ps3 like crazy. Never once saw one bad news post on the ps3, but there were plenty of bad Xbox 360 posts.

I only us ign for the wishlist/games owned feature, i rely on gaming magazines for reviews and previews. Though even gaming magazines have there faults too.

[tbone4690]

and he returns on IGN, lol.

http://games.ign.com/articles/846/846971p1.html

[Phantom1977]

and he returns on IGN, lol.

http://games.ign.com/articles/846/846971p1.html

I think they realized how it looked, cause it looked really bad. Some people had even started to question, just how unbiased review site like that really are.