IGN gave it an 8.8 or 8.9 from what I can remember.

" @Oriental_Jams: wait, when did IGN do a review? I didnt see it on there site. "

" IGN gave it an 8.8 or 8.9 from what I can remember. "

I imagine that reviews will be rolling in from the bigger sites in a few days, starting tomorrow. The wikipedia page for the game has a bunch of reviews listed for it, though.

I expected all major outlets to post their review articles and videos today. Nothing yet.
 
Well, I'm going to bed soon and tomorrow I'll pick up my copy from the mailbox.
 
I guess they're all too lazy and hung over after the holidays to work efficiently.
 
Reviews should really be out before a game hits the shelves. Especially such an under-hyped secret superhit like Darksiders.
 
If my online retailer wouldn't sell it at 20% off fullprice and advertise it with a 92% rating from the German GamePro magazine, I wouldn't even know that Darksiders is a Zelda-style Action Adventure game.
 
What a shame! Game looks effin' fantanstic.

Eh but I never agree with the UK or AU reviews, I'll wait till other reviews come a floodin' in.

I made a topic with the IGN uk and australia reviews, 8.9 and 9.0 from those. and Eurogamer gave it a 8

Kotaku posted theirs a while ago.

" @Seppli: You know, review embargoes do exist.  It's not necessarily the reviewers being "lazy". "

" @cstrang said:

" @Seppli: You know, review embargoes do exist.  It's not necessarily the reviewers being "lazy". "

Only the big United States online outlets don't have anything yet.

" @Seppli said:

" @cstrang said:

" @Seppli: You know, review embargoes do exist.  It's not necessarily the reviewers being "lazy". "

Only the big United States online outlets don't have anything yet.

Guess who the embargoes are usually against.  It's something that is neither weird, nor unusual. "

" @Oriental_Jams: wait, when did IGN do a review? I didnt see it on there site. "

" @Raven_Sword:  I think this was the game the guys mentioned on the live "I love Mondays" earlier today right? If so, someone will be reviewing it soon. I forgot who they decided on. "

Yeah, the way they were talking in today's I Love Mondays they hadn't gotten copies of either Bayonetta or Darksiders. We already know from several major review outlets that Bayonetta is amazing so this might just be a case of the publishers not having much faith in their product or Giant Bomb just doesn't rate with them. Who knows.

" @CenturionCajun: Does GB actually get games sent to them from Publishers, or do they have to wait and buy the game in stores and than review it? or does it all depend? I know they got Batman sent to them. "

It depends entirely on the game in question. Often times a copy will be sent early either in the form of a burnt disc or in some cases a retail copy. Other times the reviewer has to go out and buy the game themselves. Either because the publisher doesn't think it's very good or doesn't want to go through the effort. This doesn't just apply to Giant Bomb as Gamespot and IGN talk about having to do this as well.

" It depends entirely on the game in question. Often times a copy will be sent early either in the form of a burnt disc or in some cases a retail copy. Other times the reviewer has to go out and buy the game themselves. Either because the publisher doesn't think it's very good or doesn't want to go through the effort. This doesn't just apply to Giant Bomb as Gamespot and IGN talk about having to do this as well. "

My mate reviewed it over at Australian site www.gamearena.com.au and gave it 10/10 :)

" @Vitor: Not sure why people hate on IGN. Theyre usually on the ball most of the time. Better than Gamespot atleast. "

Indeed. IGN and Gamespot are owned by large corporations and they are all about the advertising and "clicks". In much the same way that television is all about viewers so they can charge more for ad time. So, they will write up all kinds of "Best of", "Top 10" and other opinion pieces. They also have huge staffs that rely on that advertising income to continue operation. Giant Bomb is in some ways fortunate in that they have so few employees that they can apparently survive on the limited amount of advertising they allow.
 
Tony Hawk: Ride is a great example of the not sending out review copies. Activision wanted reviewers to come to a regulated "review event" to play the game and write up a day one review under their watchful eye. Naturally, Gamespot, IGN, Giant Bomb, and many others declined.

People !!! since most gaming sites have given this game atleast an 8 and above.....dont bother reading the reviews now !!!
 IMO it will just spoil the fun when reading reviews and its clear now that its quite an awesome game.

GO PLAY DARKSIDERS !!!

Most? Giant Bomb, Gamespot, and IGN have yet to weigh in. I don't buy anything until I hear several reviews from major sources.

Well,  Da Gameboyz ,  WonderwallWeb and   Console Monster seemed to love it. 
Seriously, is that some kind of joke? Are we just looking the other way when a random dude who likes games makes a blog and gets equal footing with Giantbomb if they give us a number we like? 

Metacritic has always vexed me as to how they determine criteria for who gets to have their scores put into the equation. At the very least they should have a "Cream of the Crop" style section where it's just the major reviewers (Game Informer, Gamespot, IGN, Giant Bomb, and a few others) compiled scores.

" Metacritic has always vexed me as to how they determine criteria for who gets to have their scores put into the equation. At the very least they should have a "Cream of the Crop" style section where it's just the major reviewers (Game Informer, Gamespot, IGN, Giant Bomb, and a few others) compiled scores. "

Metacritic is dogshit, what else is new?

I can't get over Da Gameboyz. It haunts me.

" Metacritic is dogshit, what else is new? "

IGN gave it a 78 which seemed reasonable, but the metacritic score for this game is an 86. That's pretty high. I hadn't really heard much about this game until very recently but I'm super intrigued and now seeing all this positive feedback, I really want to pick it up. 
  
Would you guys recommend grabbing this one? I'm kind of waiting on Jeff's review to push me over the edge to purchase it. This game's concept just sounds so damn cool.

" HERE is the Metacritic page. "

Go to www.gamerankings.com - there are quite a few reviews for it, and they are all positive.