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I thought they did?
Regardless the case was (something like) gamespot told this reviewer that he "was to give a good review of the game" as opposed to letting him just review it. So he went a review which did only point out the bad sides of the game - a very bad review.

After that I thought he was fired and then there was a small outcry from the community that a reviewer was being fired for "standing up to false reviews" or something along those lines - after that I stopped following the story.

Personally I find reviewers to be better than EA's advertising! But in the end a demo is the only good review of a product before buying