Playing a regular single player game may sometimes take just a few hours but an MMO title like the recently released Global Agenda takes much longer to play in order to really get a beat on how it works. At least that's the idea behind the policy of reviewing MMOs at major web sites such as Gamespot. However the review of Hi-Rez Studios' latest game, which was posted on Gamespot earlier this week, was taken down because the reviewer violated that policy.

The review score was 5.5 (out of 10) and the review itself implied that the writer had put in at least 15 hours in Global Agenda. However, fans of the game found out the review writer's online character name and discovered via the game's stats collection system that he had only played Global Agenda for six hours. GameSpot editor Justin Calvert (not the writer of the actual review) apologized both in the game's official message forums and on Gamespot itself and stated, "We're sorry for any inconvenience caused and look forward to bringing you a replacement review of Global Agenda in the not too distant future."

[Via Massively]