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I've already played the PS3 combat demo at Best Buy many times (and it's awesome!); any info if this is just the same or something more substantial?

Word on Eurogamer from someone who played it is that this is rather more good than great... just a warning if you're overexcited!

Sounds like a lot of story in there, which is a good thing imo, though.

The rumours about the Eidos embargo on reviews (you know what I mean), scare me a little for this game. Only 2 reviews are available, both outside the embargo, both cover stories and both 9/10 or above. Suspicious at least.

I'm still buying it because of the batarang and ofcourse because of Batman. And other than Wolfenstein, there isn't any other summer game worth mentioning imo.

Please be good,please be good!!

Dont most publishers use ninebargo these days?

Yes. Don't quite get the whole roar over the issue. Nearly every other publisher does the same thing.

been hearing mixed things about this lately..apparently the guys at gametrailers werent too impressed with the ast build they played. Getting hands on the demo will be good.

Whoa! Detective work. That was explored in the various footage we saw. Just the fighting and scouting. This is getting better and better by the minute. If the demo is indeed released this week and plays well, this is a definite buy for me.

Been too long of a drought for me as far games go..

Could it be that you didn't hear the rumour that Eidos would only allow reviews that score over 9/10 and the game must be placed on the cover of the magazine? (Remember Kane and Lynch and the review from Gerstman on Gamespot, also Eidos). I wasn't talking about AN embargo, I was talking about the conditions that Eidos is imposing on reviews, which make them completely unreliable.

That is the same thing as ANY OTHER EMBARGO. Or did you not notice exclusive reviews from other sites giving 9s or higher to games and movies?

Actually, I didn't pay attention in that way. Me myself didn't know that 'review control management' was common. It's since the rumours about the Batman game that I started to pay attention if it was true or not. That's why I said in the first post that it's scares me. My reply to your post was to see if there was a misunderstanding about what I said. Not a personal 'attack' in any way.
I always thought the embargo's were there to prevent reviews from appearing too soon, so people would buy the game uninformed. But I didn't know that publishers were posing conditions on reviews, which is a step too far imo.

You mean the rumour that wasn't true?

Do people still believe the Kane and Lynch rumours? It was never proven, you know...

Anyway, embargos and good score reviews happen all the time. Remember GTA IV, MGS 4?

It was never denied also, not even by Gerstman himself. So I guess it's every man's choice to believe what he wants ;o)

It was denied by Gamespot staff and Eidos, though.