Eidos Delays Negative Tomb Raider Reviews

24 Nov 2008 at 04:12:38 by Jerry Friestad

Eidos' British PR firm, Barrington Harvey, has requees which award Tss Bhitiqa Pr fiomb Raider: Underworld a score of less than 80% do not post the review until Monday.

“Barrington Harvey is not in the position of telling reviewers what they can and cannot say. We love Tomb Raider and believe it merits a score of at least 8/10” The PR firm said in an official statement.

68% reviews on Metacritic fall in the 80-100% range at the writing of this article. While the PR firm may have been accurate with their assumptions, attempting to silence critics with a less than positive experience of the game may reflect poorly on the company's values.

When asked why the PR firm was attempting to do this, a representative told VG247 that they were “trying to get the Metacritic rating to be high.”

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