IGN REALLY loves Call of Duty World at War!!

Now, I haven’t really given Call of Duty World at War a fair chance just yet. I’ve briefly played the intro, but that’s about all I can say about the game at this point, so I’m definitely not in any position to dispute the score awarded to the latest CoD game by IGN.

Amrit was already questioning the 9.2 awarded to CoDWaW (pronounced … well, cod-waw.), so I went to IGN.com to check it out myself. This is what I was greeted with:

No biggie, didn’t phase me at all. Then I continued to the main page, and was punched in the face by this:

Where the fuck do I click!? I don’t know if that’s a god damn advertisement, feature piece, or if Activision just smashed a dump truck full of money through the wall of an IGN boardroom and yelled “Eat dick and love it mothafaggaaaaaaaz!!!!” and the Fox/IGN folks went down on their knees and said “MmMmm it tastes rape-a-licious!” But I digress.

At least the review page didn’t wasn’t plastered with CodWaW banners. THAT would have been tacky.

I’m not debating whether or not the game is any good, or worthy of the 9.2. I am making note however, that a game’s review becomes highly suspect when you realize the advertising dollars going to a particular source of unbiased information. Just something to think about.