Reply To: Is BoW biased in its reviews?

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I don’t think I’d view them as reviews, more as unboxing and chance to have a close look at them.

If you search about after a release there are normally some quite focused blogs that give a more in-depth investigation about the quality of a product. I suppose these days generally the quality is so high from most companies that you don’t need to worry too much about getting a pile of grey goo that is meant to be a miniature. I think the last time I purposefully looked up a review was for the Mantic Goblin plastics (and very glad I did!) because some of their other stuff was questionable at that time, but otherwise anything from GW, CB, PP (or even Mantic now actually) is likely to be fine.

It’s also useful if you have a local store -I’ve checked things out sometimes in the flesh if I’m not sure if I want it, I think most places are OK with this or will have some of a new mini set out on display already.

I would say there is a marked difference between an enthusiastic unboxing, and a dedicated ‘review’ on a video games site that has given a game an in-depth 9/10, while at the same time having advertising running down the sides of the pages. You’re generally relying on that review to give you a honest interpretation of how the game is (you can’t pull the disc out of the box and feel it or taste it) so in that case is being deliberately misleading.