IGN: First web GTA IV review, another perfect 10

I don't know I am in America and sites like Joystiq, and Kotaku have been pushing had GTA IV That is everything I have seen. Yes mario Kart has been pushed, but with insane amount of criticism. Like most games of its type GTA is getting the praise right now but wait till a NEW favorite game comes out.

Bioshock was everybody's game it was flawless, till Mass Effect than it was nothing but hype. Remember Halo 3, YES the KING WAS BACK! COD came out and people said it was all HYPE. Mass Effect, same the list goes on. GTV is great now but lets wait a few months lets let the rabidness die down and a certain chain saw wielding sequel gets ready to debut that is when I really want to see if people are still yelling Tens.

But as Hype goes I can't say if you are an upper market gamer you haven't see the marketing. Lower markets probably not because it is not the game of their choice, but definitely the sites dedicated to upper markets. The sites have not only dragged this horse to water about this games greatness, they also choked the water down its gullet, beat it to death grinded it up and served it to the other horses who won't pay attention.

I think all these websites that leaped out with a 10 of 10 are not worth their salt. It's a marketing ploy between Rockstar and those websites that gave a 10 in return for having first dibs on the game to generate traffic to their sites and what not. It looks like a win/win situation for those parties. I just don't think that Rockstar would let any game reviewers that govern themselves review the game before release day as it's in the developers interest to have these game "review" sites spit nothing but 10 of out of 10 after 10 out of 10 so the easily hyped fall like dominoes to buy the game at midnight and beyond when it launches. I will definitely get the game over the weekend but this marketing hype is just not working at all on me.

Wow