What's up everybody, welcome back to IG Game Scoop. I'm your host Damon Hathfield. I'm joined

today by Ryan McCaffrey, Dan Stapleton, and Marty Silva, making his debut appearance on Game Scoop.

Very exciting. Be nice to him. We're talking about aliens, colonial marines, and more broadly,

do we have to, Damon? We do have to. More broadly, the topic of whether or not some publishers paint

their games in a more flattering light than they actually end up being. I think we have a name for

that, don't we? That name is Bullshot. Which is coined by Penny Arcade. Yeah, I think it's

fine. We owe them a nickel. It's the trademark. It's like hawkware. Yes. You owe me a nickel. Yeah,

just put on my tap. Bullshot is what we call like screenshots, basically that have been doctored.

Photoshopped in the camera position in a way that is in no way representative of how it looks when

you're at home playing the game on your TV. It's fairly common. It's been happening for a long time.

It's almost universal. I mean, everybody does it. Absolutely everybody. Pretty much the first

screenshot you see of any game from any major publisher is almost certainly going to be

right. You actually pretty much never see a HUD until we take our own screenshots for an IGN

review. Exactly. But now aliens, Colonial Marines has received a lot of negative attention

for trailers and gameplay demos that were shown off before release, right? And obviously,

the game was not reviewed very well. Right. So they took it a step further where they released

these videos and apparently being played of a game that went much, much better. And then

when it came out, it's obvious that what they were playing is not what we're playing.

And whether who knows how that happened exactly, it could have been vertical slice, which I can

explain if necessary. Sure. Yeah, it's playing with people like vertical slice. When a game is

being pitched to a publisher, a lot of them will do, developers will do what's called a vertical

slice. They'll actually take one little part of a game, like it may be a section of a level,

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