• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Doom 2016 comes to mind. No early review copies but it turned out to be a good game. It’s very much an outlier, though.

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      11 months ago

      Oh cool, that’s an interesting factoid.

      I suppose at least we had the open beta programme with Doom though - granted it’s not review code by it’s very definition, but it was something tangible to see that it was going to be not shit at the very least.

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      11 months ago

      yeah i remember zenimax not sending review copies but dont remember if they did it with any other higher profile games