It’s that time again! You might have noticed that MindsEye, the new game from former Rockstar North studio head and GTA producer Lezlie Benzies and his studio Build a Rocket Boy, is out in the world and available to buy, while we don’t yet have a review.
This one isn’t a case of any of the more cheeky picking-and-choosing shenanigans, mind, as it seems as though the issue is pretty universal: like seemingly every other outlet, Eurogamer doesn’t have any pre-release review code for MindsEye to work from.
The usual, genuine disclaimers apply here as always. We are not entitled to review code, and developers and publishers can distribute it however they wish. Access to games is a privilege we benefit from here in the games media and never a right.
That said, with MindsEye as with any big-budget game that doesn’t provide any review access before it goes on sale to the world, it is possibly just worth exercising a little caution before you go ahead and buy it for yourself. The extra context of MindsEye’s particularly odd launch period is also probably worth running through here as well.