Comments on: PlayStation Official Magazine – Review Scores (UK) [September: Issue 35]

By: Gamoc

Gamoc — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:12:23 +0000

‘but why are the mags doing a review of transformers revenge of the fallen in a SEPTEMBER magazine?’

Because they have been sent a review copy of the game and are obligated to review it, and may not have had chance to review it earlier because they review other, bigger, better games. Besides, you don’t know when they got that review copy. Then it has to be put into the mag, which is limited by pages and millions of other things I couldn’t even mention.

And yeah, obviously previews of games we wouldn’t get to play for years is SO much better than reviews of games I might want to actually buy in the next week. And again, it’s up to publishers to arrange preview sessions, not the magazine, they can’t preview something they haven’t been shown.

By: name

name — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:47:51 +0000

obviously.
but why are the mags doing a review of transformers revenge of the fallen in a SEPTEMBER magazine?
the game was out in late june every game web site had a review why not mags.
i dont buy a magazine to read about games ive been playing for the last week or so.
which is exactly what happend this month, i bought a new mag and its got games released in july.
whats the point of reading about the game if ive been playing it for the last few weeks.
i miss the good old days where mags were the first to get previews of games.
they were 80% previews of games long long off.
10% game reviews.
10% previews of games soon released or other things like hardware or comps.
they were proper mags, the ones these days are more used as a medium to tell us if a game is worth buying or not, they should not be used for that thats what the internet is for.

By: JOSEP

JOSEP — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:08:54 +0000

oh, ok, thanks a lot!