there are ads all over IGN right now but there is no review for the game does anyone else find this odd? and whats with them posting old movie trailers as new?

I mean, it's obvious they are waiting for the check to cash. Everyone knows that.

@otto14

They are waiting for real-world, public multiplayer servers to be live - pretty standard for this style of game.

This, They've been doing it that way for quite some time now. I want to say it all started with the whole SImCity debacle, but I might be wrong.

there are smarter ways to spend marketing dollars for a game than trying to buy review scores, i would imagine.

Buying review scores would be a great way to secure funding for another game from a studio that cares about metacritic averages. GB crew talked about it once, and I got the impression it has never happened.

There are some perks, interviews, and advertising dollars that get thrown around, sure, but outright buying a review? No one can name a specific incident as far as I know.

There might not be any public incidents of it but with the way that companies rely on Metacritic, something along those lines has to happen.

IGN has delayed reviews for many games with multiplayer until real world servers could be tested.

As they should.

That's all there is to it.