Check it out! - EGM" which would imply that EGM gave the game a positive review when they actually gave it an incredibly negative review. The front cover of the box quotes " Stunning. Bubsy 3D is one of the most infamous cases of this.Shadier companies will simply take positive-sounding quotes out of context (ex "it is incredible how bad this game is" becomes ".incredible." on the box): indeed, one of the reasons reviewers tend to provide numeric scores is to clue buyers into the fact that a quote provided without a score may be being taken out of context. One common tactic used by shady companies throughout the history of gaming is to quote-mine previews on game boxes as if they are reviews.This has been common since at least the fifth generation.
The most common example is the box art for almost all video games, where the artwork looks clean and realistic, but the game does not yield said graphics.This issue is so bad in gaming, there's even an entire category for it on this very wiki. In some countries this is illegal to do, and companies and people can be fined a significant sum of money and people involved can be arrested if this is done. Another, much more realistic example if a publisher advertised features that are nowhere to be found in the final product. This is an example that would hardly ever happen, but this hypothetical example would be considered false advertising if it happened.
An example of false advertising is a company advertising an upcoming game as a first-person shooter game, but then releasing it as a beat 'em up game.
Sonic, Sonic Sez segment from the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode "Birth of a Salesman"įalse advertising is the use of misleading, false, or unproven information to advertise games to attract gamers.
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