Its not back on my profile yet and no one elses so its still missing.Dj-Dark-1

What's puzzling is everyone saying "This is unbelievable" or words to that effect. In the last 2 years or so, GameSpot's advertising has become increasingly and disturbingly mercenary. For example the time Microsoft paid them to plaster nothing but 360 ads all over the PS3 page. They have the gall to have a "Best Game Noone Played" category in the end of year awards, but the reason noone played it is because THEY wouldn't advertise it, instead choosing mediocre games with financial backing.
Not only the ads but the journalistic integrity, or lack thereof. The constant favouritism towards the 360. Constant features on the console, multiplat games only getting attention on that platform. Weasel words in the news stories and headlines to spin it whatever way they want. They still expect us to believe the impartial line?
Other tactics too, like rating games deliberately lower than other sites so people will come to the site and see why. But this is only employed on games that HAVEN'T been advertised here. God forbid they upset them. :|

This was far from expected,given the escalating scale of dollar-worship on the siteit was only a matter of time before something like this happened.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if this whole thing turned out to be another pathetic publicity stunt on Cnet's part to try and generate more traffic.

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It's annoying that everyone has started these "GS has lost all credibility" posts because of this, when long standing anti-GS conspiracy theorists have been ridiculed in the past for saying such things. Bias, bribery, all round scandal; this is old news for us! It's great to be publiclyproven right, though.
Personally I think it's atrocious, but completely expected from a site of this calibre. I didn't usually like Jeff's reviews, but at least he had a personality, unlike most of the other staff. What's even worse is that with his departure that amateur hack VanOrd is going to worm his way further up the ranks, HE should be fired for his spate of laughable reviews.
Carrie, Greg, Rich and now Jeff... there's no one likeable left at GS.

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Agreed wth you until you dissed Kevin. He's one of the best writers GameSpot has had in a long, long time.

Agreed. Attacking another reviewer like that is unwarranted and immature too.

Oh he's a good writer don't get me wrong, but his reviews have been consistently way off the mark. In my opinion of course, I'm not going to fire you for disagreeing with me :D

It's annoying that everyone has started these "GS has lost all credibility" posts because of this, when long standing anti-GS conspiracy theorists have been ridiculed in the past for saying such things. Bias, bribery, all round scandal; this is old news for us! It's great to be publiclyproven right, though.
Personally I think it's atrocious, but completely expected from a site of this calibre. I didn't usually like Jeff's reviews, but at least he had a personality, unlike most of the other staff. What's even worse is that with his departure that amateur hack VanOrd is going to worm his way further up the ranks, HE should be fired for his spate of laughable reviews.
Carrie, Greg, Rich and now Jeff... there's no one likeable left at GS.

wtf no online co-op link now you can play online and rob banks with friendsCrazy87

Online co-op as in the story mode. Someone plays as Kane, someone else as Lynch. That co-op mode is only available offline. The bank robbery thing isn't story based, just another mode.
I agree the graphics aren't up to much, at all. I know IO are saying they don't care about making graphics look great, but I thought Hitman 2 looked incredible. Well whatever, I'm keeping my eye on this game but I'll wait for some review scores before I bite or lose interest altogether.

I used to be quite active here, but now the only reason I still log in is to read the occasional blog. Not often a thread piques my interest :) Gamespot used to be about games, it seems its priorities have shifted and it's now about revenue. Yes it's a business, and businesses need money, but there's discrete advertising and then there's excess. GS feels like an EA game with all the advertisements plastered everywhere, which is ironically a reason they constantly slate EA games.
In the space it takes the front page of the site to load, I can scroll down the entire page of Kotaku or Joystiq, reading all the headlines. And those sites report news up to a few days in advance of GS too, so there's not much point in coming here for news anymore. Regarding the advertisements, I never even look at them (it's hard not to, with them dominating much of the page, but still), and wouldn't bother clicking on them. Where is it going to take me? Probably the game's official site, which will offer me screenshots etc. that are already up on GS? What's the point. Advertisements actually turn me off games, rather than make me more excited for them. Typically it's mediocre games that need excess advertisement anyway, as they won't sell off reputation for great gameplay/graphics alone.

Reviews-wise, I'm somewhat in agreement with the OP. When I come here I want a review. That's it. I don't want "launch centres" that sickeningly tie in the game's related film, the film's related soundtrack, all conveniently located on GameSpot's© sister® sitesTM. I really had to laugh at Gerstmann when he was complaining about how commercial Sony's new Home project was going to be, because for me it's a perfect parallel for what GS is now; Advertisers first, gaming is incidental.
GS used to be the only source I would consider for reviews, but now I'm not so sure. When they give a mark way lower than any other site, I start to feel that maybe they're just doing it to generate more site traffic, but maybe I'm being too cynical. Yes Spiderman 3 is "big", but the game itself is terrible, and doesn't warrant a launch centre! The film, maybe does, but not the game. Maybe you could work that way. If it's a good movie, give it a launch centre on the movie site, not this one.
I'm not harking back to the "good old days" of the late 90s when it was just games with maybe a banner ad or something, gaming and the internet evolves quicker every year, and I'm all for it. But it seems the only thing that's evolved on this site is the way advertising is implemented (yes there are things like tournaments etc. but they're all geared towards the US users, the UK site serves no purpose). The same, archaic review system is still in place, and it is dreadfully in need of an overhaul. Anyway, rant over, I doubt anyone read it anyway :cry: