EGM is doing a follow-up "face-off" about their review with Julian E. in the next issue, so they didn't simply rate it and walk away.Crayon Shinchan said:Play contacted Factor 5 and asked them what issues would be resolved in gold code and rated accordingly. EGM failed to do so, and thus ended up reviewing incomplete code.
Bad if it happened just the way Crayon said, but there's a little more to it >>> here.elostyle said:Is this good or bad?
- Play reviewer received a preview build and played it.
- Play reviewer contacted Factor 5 about various issues observed in preview build
- Factor 5 said several of those issues would be resolve by the time game appeared on shelves
- Factor 5 said they'd send Play a more advanced preview build with those issues fixed before they had to go to print
- In the meantime, Play reviewer wrote his review on assumption issues were fixed
- Play received new build, reviewer played it for several hours to assure issues were fixed
- As a result, review submitted as is.