Fri, Jun 19, 2009 | 14:49 BST
Eurogamer to re-review Grand Slam Tennis
EG’s just said it’s to re-review EA’s Grand Slam Tennis, and has pulled its original 5/10 score.
The site’s editor, Tom Bramwell, said on his blog today that the game’s retail version is significantly more responsive than the dev kit set-up used for the review.
“As a result, I’m immediately withdrawing Eurogamer’s Grand Slam Tennis review until we will publish a new review based purely on retail console play,” said Bramwell.
“The existing text will remain online with big whopping signposts on it that highlight the above, and once the replacement review is published, it will redirect to that.”
The new score will go live on Monday.
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Posted in: EA, Hot, Journalism, Sports, Wii
Tags: eurogamer, grand slam tennis, review
14 comments
#1
G1GAHURTZ
19/06/09, 2:46 pm
Oh dear…
#2
Hunam
19/06/09, 2:46 pm
Why are EA sending out bad code for review then? Silly bears.
#3
Blerk
19/06/09, 2:48 pm
It wasn’t bad code, it was bad machine – they played the game on a debug Wii, where it performs ‘worse’ than on a common or garden Wii for some reason.
#4
Patrick Garratt
19/06/09, 2:49 pm
I’ve changed that from “code” to “set-up”.
#5
G1GAHURTZ
19/06/09, 2:52 pm
Professhunalisizmm.
#6
anasui
19/06/09, 3:01 pm
ah well, ready for 6/10 then
#7
Hunam
19/06/09, 3:02 pm
Oh.. sounds like EG need a new debug wii then.
#8
Blerk
19/06/09, 3:09 pm
Someone was saying it’s something to do with the firmware in the debug units being different/older than the firmware in the retail machines.
#9
Anders
19/06/09, 3:19 pm
The obvious follow-up: How many Wii-titles have been reviewed on that machine?
#10
Blerk
19/06/09, 3:21 pm
Well, none of the other ones used MotionPlus. That seems to be where the issue lies.
#11
ecu
19/06/09, 3:23 pm
Supposedly WMP improves the game greatly. Expect 7 or 8 out of 10.
#12
BraveArse
19/06/09, 5:44 pm
It does improve it … but it takes a good few hours of play for it to click. I was getting whupped on easy mode for ages until I finally stopped trying to play it like an old “waggle” game.
It still has it’s quirks and it’s never going to get above a 7 or 8 but as first WMP game it’s pretty impressive. Roll on TW10..
#13
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23/06/09, 11:11 am
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#14
G1GAHURTZ
23/06/09, 11:14 am
No thanks.