Tomb Raider: Underworld Review Anarchy in the UK

Videogaming247 reports that Eidos UK's PR firm has been asking British
websites to hold off posting their Tomb Raider: Underworld reviews until
Monday if they are giving the game lower than an 80 score, admitting this is an
effort at maintaining a good Metacritic score "to ensure that we don’t put
people off buying the game, basically." The story broke thanks to a Twitter post
by a reviewer at GameSpot UK, which brings to mind the scandal dubbed
Gerstmann-gate, that involved GameSpot, Eidos, and a respected
journalist who lost his job after a lukewarm review for Kane & Lynch: Dead
Men.

VG247 also has a lengthy follow-up statement from the PR firm that stresses
they have no problem with negative reviews, and states that reports of
"problems" with Eurogamer's review of the game were related to accuracy, and not
the game's final score, concluding with this: "Barrington Harvey has been
working hard to ensure the launch scores of Tomb Raider Underworld are in line
with our internal review predictions over the launch weekend - but to suggest
that we can in some way 'silence' reviews of the game is slightly overstating
our influence."


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