Eidos Caught Lying About Kane & Lynch Reviews

December 5th, 2007 Posted in Action, Articles, Business, FPS, Featured, News

The controversy over Eidos’ and IO Interactive’s horrible shooter Kane & Lynch won’t end anytime soon, especially after publisher Eidos was caught lying on the official game site about reviews.Banners appearing online quote GameSpy saying in their review “It’s the best emulation of being in the midst of a Michael Mann movie we’ve ever seen”, but GameSpy never said that in the review, only a preview back at E3.

The ads also say that both GameSpy and GameInformer gave Kane & Lynch 5 starts, but that’s a flat out lie; GameSpy gave it 3/5 stars, while GameInformer doesn’t give out starts at all, instead the game got a 7/10 rating.

Kane & Lynch was a highly anticipated game, but completely failed in almost every aspect – a truth made so much worse by Eidos and the GameSpot controversy, and now this…

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5 Responses to “Eidos Caught Lying About Kane & Lynch Reviews”

  1. Mobilewhack Says:

    December 5th, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    The Daily Wrap Up – Dec 5th, 2007…

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  2. Ron Says:

    December 5th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    “What could go wrong?”

    What they don’t say: “Everything. This game is blowful.”



  3. STD Says:

    December 17th, 2007 at 6:22 pm

    Ha! This is hysterical! Eidos is so delusional! Obviously it is much more beneficial to bribe game reviewers like so many other game companies do.



  4. Kane & Lynch Demo On XBL : DigitalBattle Says:

    December 19th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    [...] & Lynch has been quite a lot in the news lately, but for all the wrong reasons, like bad reviews and that whole GameSpot incident. The PS3 demo has been out on the PlayStation [...]



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