Yeah I remember reading some gamereactor reviewers story of how he reviewed GTA4. Sounded so fucking weird being at a hotel for a few days, playing the game supervised like that. The R* guys would leave the hotel but come and check in every once in a while, he said he had given up on actually finishing the game on his last day but the R* guy came in and told him he only had a few more missions to go, so he ended up making i through.
But I guess with their bad experiences (like Manhunt 2 beta leak from Sony) made them even more paranoid than they used to be.
Yeah that was written by Jesper Nielsen.. He is deleted from gamereactor (as am I) so his blogs about the hotel visits are gone.
He actually defended the practice of hotel visits back then.