Eidos Caught Lying About Kane & Lynch Reviews
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…