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Reps from the UK PR firm for Eidos have confirmed that they're asking publications not to release any reviews for Tomb Raider: Underworld below an 8/10 until Monday. The firm says they're doing so at the request of Eidos, which is trying to manage the scores for as long as it can. The game is currently sporting a 78 on Metacritic.
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Source: Joystiq

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BlueMak

Wow, I guess they never learned their lesson from the last time.
Guess how much money I will pay for this game?

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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Judas

your going to pay "$free" ?

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BlueMak

I wouldn't buy it anyway since I have no interest in the series after the first game, but yes, you got that right, now I will play it to see how bad it really is and I hope many more will end up not paying a single (insert currency) for this.
Well done EIDOS, you are so clever!

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Al_Vampyre

Unless it's a title I've already made my mind up about (like Fallout 3) I always wait until after release because I don't trust pre-release reviews for this very reason!

Dyre Straits

EIDOS must think it's a bad game to begin with if they expect so many 'negative' reviews to come out that they are 'bribing' companies to hold off on the bad rep.

The games should all stand or fall on their own merits, anyway.

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SFOSOK

So I guess we wont see any reviews for that piece of shit till monday

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