Having never read or seen the magazine before, and having worked as a games reviewer, I take the 'preview' page as, here's teaser of what the game is like, and whilst at the moment, it has more bugs than Bombay market, it'll give devs the time to remove the major ones, so that we don't have to post a negative review that we'll then have to justify to ubisoft as to why they send us 'free' samples..
Personally, i'd never ever write up a review page, as all it does is create hype and increase perception that it must be a good product.. If a game gets released as buggy/unfinished, it should be scored as that, even if theres a 0 day patch... and i think thats part of the problem too.. far too easy to release rubbish then fix it up later, taking advantage of peoples good will to excuse rubbish being shipped..
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