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In a phone call from publisher Eidos to a game review site:
If you're planning on reviewing Tomb Raider Underworld at less than an 8.0, we need you to hold your review till Monday.
They (Eidos) came out later and tried to put a good face on things, which was a fumbling attempt to convince us we didn’t see what we just saw. I mean, who are you going to believe, us, or what we said yesterday?
Just that we're trying to get the Metacritic rating to be high, and the brand manager in the US that's handling all of Tomb Raider has asked that we just manage the scores before the game is out, really, just to ensure that we don't put people off buying the game, basically.
That is to say: We would just like the reviewers to hold off doing their jobs until we can fleece their readers.
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