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It looks as if GamePro enraged many and took quite a bit of heat yesterday after one of their “journalists” Taeleur Kim put out a review for the recently released title, the Conduit. The review scored the title a 3.5 of 5, which equates to a 70 on metacritic, which seems fair enough until you start actually reading the thing. This could be chalked up to a bunch of Nintendo fanboys complaining reminiscent to what happened with PS3 fanboys when reviewers gave Killzone lower scores than 9/10, but the issues readers had lied less with the score and more with the content of his review. Responses on Gamepro’s webpage were already quite heated before “journalists” from Gamepro took the argument to their Twitter pages. What ensued was not as much of a logical argument between two disagreeing parties but rather, something more akin to grade school yard bickering. Internet fight!



Gamepro “journalists” replied with such “professional” statements to defend their publication:

“they don't (like the review) -- because it's not in line with what IGN said. Tae's dislike of the controls caught flack with arguments like..."you can change the input". The output was what he knocked. Just a bunch of crybabies not seeing the star count they wanna”

"all that customization only amounts to a cry for help trying to adapt the Wiimote to something it just doesn't do all that well"

" but OMG it contradicts IGN Wii's review!1! HOW COULD THEY BE WRONG?"

“My mistake was forgetting the passing of the Internet Opinion Act which outlawed opinions on the Internet. I wish I'd voted no now. Haha, thanks? I'd try and respond to all the criticism but I'd have better luck draining the ocean with a teaspoon.”

“Forget words. What i need is one of those Red Faction sledgehammers. And the addresses of everyone who bitches in our comments.”



Apparently anyone who disagrees with Gamepro deserves to either be killed violently with a warhammer or slowly annoyed to death with facetious remarks. Similar comments from their staff go on and maturity never sets in. You would think they would worry about their self image and reputation representing a publication and all but well, it is Gamepro we are talking about here.

What incited such rage prior to the schoolyard antics that occurred on Twitter?

In the review itself Mr. Kim has made blatant statements that seem to show he did not give the title a fair shake from the get go. From the outset he disparagingly compares the graphics of the game that brings the most impressive realistic graphics on the system to date to Goldeneye and suggests the game probably would have been better on the PS3 or 360, but actually on the PC as“[He is] a diehard keyboard and mouse fan” and has not enjoyed shooting mechanics on the Wii or any other console for that matter. As if the point of the game wasn’t to bring Wii owners a decent title in a genre the system’s library has been sorely missing in comparison to the other consoles. Then goes on to moan and groan about the motion controls he could have mapped to a button with the extensive ability to alter the controls that the title has been praised for, but claims “[he] played with the default and was absolutely happy with it.”Additionally the online features were not included in the review, although other Gamepro employees had used it, which seems a bit daft considering other reviews have included the online content.

The professionalism of Gamepro is utterly atrocious and only incited further rage against themselves spilling out from Twitter and their webpage and across several other sites as well. I can’t say that I’ve been a fan of theirs in the past but this incident just adds to that negative reputation the publication has built up over the years, even still the childish remarks on Twitter are surprising to see from people masquerading as games journalists.