cardician

Those print reviews are not reflective towards each publication's overall view because it's all of the reviewers' own opinion and they might have been astonished by it, not for money; notice the bold on print. In order for magazines to get the reviews on time for release, Rockstar has to send them early copies. They have stricter deadlines due to the actual print and distribution process of making a magazine. Print is not the fucking internet. 

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" Jeff said something on Twitter last night about learning how to play Liar's Dice. Perhaps they finally have a review copy, or perhaps Jeff is just a baller. Well, he's a baller regardless - but you know what I mean. "

Yep, saw that too. I think they do have an early copy they probably just aren't allowed to say anything due to the embargo. "

There are reviews out already. No embargo. Got my copy of GI today and it was there. There have been reviews (I think on gamesTM magazine and somewhere else) and other stuff.I just think it's more likely that they don't do stuff until right before the game is out, since they generally don't do previews (other than QL road shows, news articles, and trailers). I didn't even know Alan Wake was coming out/out until I saw the QL cause I haven't been following that game. "

What games would R* needed to have bothered paying sites for in order to get good reviews? Their games have widely been hailed as being fantastic since at least GTA 3. I think you're a little off in your perception there buddy. Why pay for a good score when your games are honestly good enough to get a good score as it is? I happen to know businesses aren't in the habit of just throwing money away. Quite the opposite infact. I believe you're thinking of the company that made Kane & Lynch and created the whole Jeff/Gamespot debacle. But clearly they made up since they've been showing K&L 2 to Jeff recently.

" Jeff said something on Twitter last night about learning how to play Liar's Dice. Perhaps they finally have a review copy, or perhaps Jeff is just a baller. Well, he's a baller regardless - but you know what I mean. "

Yup. He got shutdown right quick. Not surprised. R* is on top of these things. I remember all the GTA IV streams getting shut pretty quick until there were so many that R* had trouble keeping up.

It's an open world R* game. So yes, I think it is highly anticipated. It's like GTA IV in the west with tons of improvements, so those of us who loved GTA IV are greatly looking forward to it.
 
Oh, and I stand corrected. There apparently is now a leaked video of it being played on JustinTV. Bastard, I am so envious.Doesn't happen very often for me anymore that I look forward to a title this much.

Mean't the title to say HASN'T leaked. Sorry.

I'm really impressed R* has managed to keep this game from leaking so far. Usually you see all kinds of streams on places like JustinTV with people laying these highly anticipated games early but so far there seems to be nothing. Wonder how they've managed to keep everything under wraps. Normally a company can't control every outlet, from the duplicator to the distributor. Impressive.

Oh, and Gatero might not be the correct name of the town in the US release. I got this info from EgHeadFoo's awesome faq on GameFaqs. If you have any more questions I think he's pretty much got everything answered in his FAQ.

You mean how you register them in the Bestiary? If you want to know, put it in as a spoiler because it sort of is: