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GameSpot Editor Fired Because Negative Review? - briefly
(hx) 01:11 PM CET - Nov,30 2007 - Post a comment / read (4)
Both Kotaku and Shacknews have reported via unnamed sources that Eidos threatened to pull the ad contract for Kane and Lynch off GameSpot because of Gerstmann's review of the game where he gave it a score of 6 out of 10. Gerstmann's written review is still posted at Gamespot but his video review of the game has apparently been pulled from the site. Shacknews got confirmation via their own sources that Gerstmann was indeed fired yesterday from his position at GameSpot. The source declined to comment as to whether the firing was directly related to the reported Eidos situation, but the circumstances are suspicious at the least.

Update:1UP.com has their own article on the firing of GameSpot executive editor Jeff Gerstmann. The article speculates that the dismissal could be due to Stephen Colvin, the new Executive Vice President at GameSpot's parent company CNet.
last 10 comments:
fyrecat036(02:02 PM CET - Nov,30 2007 )
Ha wouldnt be the first game Edios has published that sucked, and it certianly wont be the last. Look at the games user reviews for crying out loud. They should be happy the game sopt fellow gave them a 6.

lmer(02:03 PM CET - Nov,30 2007 )
Jeff had the only reviews on GS I cared about. Always said what he meant.

The video review is here:
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/video_player/popup.php?sid=6182850&pid=934403

For a comparison of reviewing the game see the link above. For an example of getting buttf....d see this:
http://www.gamespot.com/video/931665/6182761/crysis-video-review-1

Too bad.

draken(05:36 PM CET - Nov,30 2007 )
Kane & Lynch is one of those game you wish people wouldnt even have to see advertised. Gameplay sucks, GFX looks like 3-4 years old... it has nothing new to offer and it feels ALL wrong.

Now firing someone for giving an honest opinion about a pile of crap is not something I agree with. I was not visiting GS much and now im never going back there again.

Put some balls on people... firing a good reviewer for a bad review on a shity game is quite the lowest thing you could have done !!!

Anyways... this game sucks, Eidos is freefalling with the quality of their games.... youll pay the price for this... both GS and Eidos ! It might not be tomorrow, but it'll catch up to you !!!

:twisted:

BlindSight(07:29 PM CET - Nov,30 2007 )
I actually made an account just so i could coment on this, this is such a childish action for edios, rediculous, guys serously if the shoe fits...

a total of 1184 users between the 3 platforms gave it an avrage rating of 4.3! your game stinks, stop crying about it and make a better one, trying to force sites to give you a good vote is not going to help you. INFACT Mr. Gerstmann was being very generous with his score of 6.0 as clearly the public at large deems your game much much worse.

Mr. Gerstmann, if your reading this i have one word for you, SUE! if there ever was a wrongful dismissal this is it.

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