Wow... Kane and Lynch. That seemed like a pretty sweet game didn't it? Sure the graphics weren't nice, and the guns didn't seem all that cool but it looked like an awesome game. We all waited, watching the trailers, the publicity, the gamespot exclusives.
And what did all of this culminate to?
A 6.0 rating by none other than Jeff Gertsman.
Rome was lit on fire, the titanic sunk, a train in Spain crashed, a tube station in London was bombed, the twin towers fell, millions of inoccent jews were slaughtered. Gamespot was lit aflame only a day after this review was submitted.
Soon after Jeff Gertsman was fired by C-net and the rest of his superiors. What exactly got him fired will probably be a mystery, but for now I just suggest that you look at all the 1.0 user reviews on the Kane and Lynch page all because one man was fired. I honestly don't care who forced C-net to fire such a good reviewer, I just wish I knew why... In any case, I am not incredibly and irrationally irate like the larger part of the gamespot community because of this. The following examples might clarify why everyone is so angry at Jeff for giving Kane and Lynch a low review and why others are angry at C-net for firing him:
The first faction that might have gotten Mr. Gertsman fired was the Kane and Lynch fanboys. Sometimes the media machine turns an average, rational gamer into a raving fanboy. I must say, the publicity on Kane and Lynch was genius, great trailers, great specials, skins, banners, the works. I myself was quite excited for the game, but when the 6.0 review came out I was confused.
I decided to rent the game. Upon playing it I realized that most of Jeff's points were correct. The combat and gameplay felt a lot like Hitman with a cover mechanic and was severely lacking certain elements, the story was great and original and it had good style but the rating Jeff gave it was deserved.
(I hope I don't get fired for that)
The second faction that might have gotten him fired is Edios. This is the least probable faction for me because I've never seen any game company pull something off like this and I certainly wouldn't expect Edios.
