We ofte hear about situations were publishers are accused of trying to recieve favorable reviews for their new games. The latest to face these accusations is Ubisoft, pointed out by German magazine Computer Bild Spiele for demanding a high schore for Assassin’s Creed 2.

“Our reviews are tough, but fair. We will not give up our independent scores for the sake of a timely review,” explains the magazine in its latest issue. “This holds true for Assassin’s Creed 2. The publisher asked us to guarantee the score ’sehr gut,’ otherwise we would not receive a review copy, thus we will publish our review in next month’s issue. We’d be more than glad to give the game a ’sehr gut’, but only if it deserves it.”

My German is lackluster at best, but I do believe “Sehr Gut” means “that’s good”, or simply “good”. Anyway, it’s basically an A-grade, meaning Ubisoft was only willing to give away a copy of the game in exchange for a positive review. Personally I’m hoping this isn’t true, because a company like Ubisoft really doesn’t need to resort to these kinds of tactics. Shame on them if it’s true.