This site has clearly been biased for years and this is most obvious with the ratings to all the next-gen games, most notable on the 360 with very weak and unimpressive games like perfect dark getting a 9/10 when its single player was crap and its multiplayer had 1/10th the features of its predecessor from a DECADE ago

Seriously stop crying and pointing the finger at the publishers, do you know how many great games get bad reviews from Critics, its a freaking shame. Gamespot is a biased site all there scores shot down PS3 games and praise crap like Halo 3 which brought Nothing to the table and no different to halo 2. Its basically a Halo 2.5 which slightly better graphics and weapons and etc. Online play is very fun but the story sucks its short. Halo 3 is garbage and im a Halo fan and im telling you this. The reviews that Halo 3 got was not fair and was a travesty.

Justice has been served and im hoping gamespot will get checked cause there is definitely some foul play going on at the site. I been on the site for a year and after going on a bigger and better site not full of fanboys and etc called Neoseeker.com i saw how biased Gamespot and IGN are, they never rated any PS game high that really deserves it. And the fact they rush a game cause of a deadline to meet and crap. Assassin Creed is a prime example of a bad reviews that game ruled.
Rachet and Clank got some mediocre score by IGN and Gamepot.

Stop thinking this is Eidos fault they can complain but they can’t do anything to fire Jeff he got fired Cause Gamespot found something on his rear. You people are backing up Jeff for no reason. Im glad he’s gone he’s has made bad reviews. And one little tidbit you left out of your comments is this

“According to our tipster, it wasn’t necessarily the score that was reason for Gerstmann’s rumoured axing, but the “tone” of the review.”
“As our tipster points out, if the rumour is true, it could point to a distressing precedent at Gamespot and parent company CNET. “As writers of what is supposed to be objective content, this is our worst nightmare coming to life,” wrote the tipster”

Looks like non of you actually read the article.

bias much?

I think this sort of thing is much, much more prevalent than people realise.

I take real offense to this. Knowing some people in the games industry and knowing some people in the reviewing side of things as well who work both online and in games I can tell you this. That whilst companies do indeed, more than you realise, throw favor around to encourage better scores, 99 percent of the time sites and magazines will not currie favor from this, unless of course they’re the official magazine for that console, hello Driver 3 and OPSM2…

The simple fact of the matter is, that wether or not they give Gamespot money to advertise Kane and Lynch, this should NOT EVER impact the decision on which the review is based. You will find this is actually an ILLEGAL business practice.

It makes you start questioning all online sites, all games distributors, the ethics and standards behind them… one simple action such as this, has a butterfly effect so massive it’s not funny.

So thanks Eidos, you’re a real class act. Maybe you’d like to start suiing me to shut up now? Get me fired? God knows I’d love for you to try…

If you make a shit game, expect a shit review. It’s as simple as that. Publishers need to shut up and stop crying. Trying to basically censor the fact their game is a failure just because they’ve made a wrong decision by publishing a SHIT product is highly unethical. Hey there’s a phonebooth on the corner, go call the WAAAAAAmbulance.

Nice One Eidos you spoil sports

While I never took much stock in Jeff’s opinion, he is entitled to it and makes a living out of it.

Does this mean that all the positive reviews we read for games that generally aren’t that great are because publishers lent on review websites?

So far the review is still up so that may mean this tip is not legit, or were the publishers just happy to get Jeff fired as it sets a precedence?