Ratchet and Clank [PS4]
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Sigfried1977
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Pretty sure every halffway notable press outlet received preview copies by now.
Sigfried1977
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It's supposed to be the PS2 R&C plus a shit ton of new content (extra planets to visit and stuff). Memory might be playing tricks on me, but I remember R&C 1 as having been decently lengthy already. There's also new game+, which is an awesome way to enjoy R&C.
Didn't the Resistance trilogy end? Not like we've never seen 'finished' trilogies getting another sequel, but I thought they were really done with the franchise.
RenegadeRocks
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Superb ! and the memories !
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It's not for four to five weeks is it? Massive games like Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3 rarely get in reviewer's hands a week before release, why will R&C be any different?
Rikimaru
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Game was done 6 months ago.
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Games go gold for disc duplications several weeks before release but they don't get to reviewers often until a few days before launch. Reviewers getting code a whole week before release is unusual and it has nothing to do with when the game was finished.
Rikimaru
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Print press could get games early. Like 1.5 months.
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Based on my sub to GameInformer (and EDGE before I cancelled) this is not the case. Games often had reviews appear only after their release because of publication deadlines. And that's not just the actual print edition but the electronic edition as well.
While 'preview code' can be available earlier most journalists are now reluctant to do a review based on non-final code. Many review sites won't even do a review on multiplayer games until they've played them on public servers.
The trilogy might be done but the franchise still has tons of potential, their new engine should do wonders for a whole new story.
High bitrate footage available at gamersyde: http://gamersyde.com/news_ratchet_clank_gameplay_videos-17664_en.html
What rikumaru said can happen for retail games, but it's rare. I've read of a few cases, but this was over ten years ago and shit's changed a lot since then.
With digital only games, things are different. Review codes go out before release all the time, especially if the game is from an indie company.
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Review copies are almost always available before release but I've never heard of a review copies being available 5-6 weeks before a game's release. Ratchet and Clank on PS4 doesn't release until w/c 18th April. 19th in USA, 20th in parts of Europe and Asia, 22nd in the UK.
Sigfried1977
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Preview code. Not review code. Sony sent out preview versions to just about anyone. It's not the full game, but a pretty sizeable chunk of it.
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Yes. And as I said a few posts back:
While 'preview code' can be available earlier most journalists are now reluctant to do a review based on non-final code. Many review sites won't even do a review on multiplayer games until they've played them on public servers.
The 20+ minute PlayStation Access video posted above is based on preview code which inlcuded, if I recall the GAF thread correctly, seven planets. Gitaroo was expressing hope that DF could do some analysis but unless they get given a copy for this purpose I think it's unlikely - which is how this discussion started. I suspect more preview code to Eurogamer has exclusions for technical analysis (meaning DF) otherwise we'd be seeing a lot mor DF pieces on preview code than we do now.
They're bouind to do some analysis though, it's a very pretty game. Some comparison to the PS3 game and how graphical techniques have improved or changed would be welcome.
I think that in today's world, when 'final code' usually needs a few patches to work as desired, there's not much point in reviewing 'preview code' as you can only imagine in what state that would probably be.
