hydrolythe said:
First of all, a critic who feels the weight of the pay will give a much lower score to the game in question than a critic who doesn't.
So prove it. This should be easy to demonstrate since you're asserting it with such certainty.
Amiga Powers Review of Akira was considerably of a lower score than that what other review magazines wrote: Just see the link http://amr.abime.net/review_991
You wonder why amiga power gave the lowest score, I'd say that was because they were the only video game magazine that had to pay 40£ on the copy before they could finally review it.