So today IGN posted a review for Borderlands 2 VR and gave it a 3/10.
There was a video and written review at the link: https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/12/15/borderlands-2-vr-review
However if you go it now you just get an error.
The complaints they had were: (Getting from someone quoting the review before it was taken down)
Problem is that every one of these options is in the game and can be changed in the settings. By default they're off to prevent motion sickness. However the reviewer seemingly never touched the settings for the game. People who played it called out IGN and for now the review is down. It's kind of embarrassing for a reviewer to not even look through the options which is piratically mandatory for VR titles. Since it's standard to have all of the "safety" options on by default.
Edit: Reid23 found the sea IGN link: https://sea.ign.com/borderlands-2-vr/144417/review/borderlands-2-vr-review
Edit 2: IGN did respond on the Borderlands subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Borderland...r_review_but/ebvl7my/?sh=5e53527b&st=JPQS19IP
There was a video and written review at the link: https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/12/15/borderlands-2-vr-review
However if you go it now you just get an error.
The complaints they had were: (Getting from someone quoting the review before it was taken down)
There is no way to sprint, strafe, jump, or spin, and besides short, jagged pivots left or right — telescoped with an intrusive iris effect
Problem is that every one of these options is in the game and can be changed in the settings. By default they're off to prevent motion sickness. However the reviewer seemingly never touched the settings for the game. People who played it called out IGN and for now the review is down. It's kind of embarrassing for a reviewer to not even look through the options which is piratically mandatory for VR titles. Since it's standard to have all of the "safety" options on by default.
Edit: Reid23 found the sea IGN link: https://sea.ign.com/borderlands-2-vr/144417/review/borderlands-2-vr-review
Edit 2: IGN did respond on the Borderlands subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Borderland...r_review_but/ebvl7my/?sh=5e53527b&st=JPQS19IP
DanStapleton
Hi everyone, IGN's reviews editor here.
We're very sorry about this whole situation -- it's never our intention to mislead our readers and viewers or misrepresent any developer's work. Obviously, this reviewer was not careful enough in verifying his assumptions about Borderlands 2 VR's movement and comfort options before writing his review, and we definitely don't want reviews based on incorrect information. As soon as the issues were brought to my attention last night I verified the problem and then pulled the review from the site and YouTube (the fact that this happened on a Friday evening made it difficult to pull it from everywhere at once) and contacted Metacritic to have the score withdrawn.
We've started over with a different reviewer and hope to have a new, factually accurate review up before the end of the coming week. Thanks for bearing with us.
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