this was said on the cutscene blog.

after wathcing xplay and learning about this blog post i would have to say, yes, maybe exclusive reviews are kinda shady. i mean the post of this post regarding another post (i couldnt find the original) is that, basically, exclusive reviews scream advertisement. today's episode of x-play also clears up a lot. an exclusive review is a favor from the developers, so it would put the reviewers in a bad position to give it a bad score.

so yeah, most of my thoughts come from other people, but the ideas seem to click with me.