I was checking out the news about the new recent releases on GOG today and was very happy to discover UbiSoft line-up being added. As a big fan of Beyond good and Evil I decided to see how the reception for the game is so far and read some user reviews. There was only one thus far. A very in-depth write-up by the user: ajh209 (you can check it out here):
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/beyond_good_and_evil
I started reading it and thought to myself, wow, this is good! Great job! But for some reason it didn't add-up. I saw lengthy reviews on GOG before so that wasn't it (too many references to Eurogamer maybe) but I decided I'd check it anyway and googled it. I came up as a result with this:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/beyond-good-and-evil-reader-review
A review by the user FerrisBueller dated as of 2 October, 2007. His review is aside for some minor edits a direct copy of the one written by ajh209. And taking the dates into the account its relatively easy to see which one was written first. Now let me make it perfectly clear I am not here to pass judgement. And in fact if it really is FerrisBueller who wrote/edited the GOG rendition of the review I would like to thank him for the efforts and a great read. If not the user involved has only his conscience to answer to.
The reason for this thread is rather to raise the topic and ask the community's reaction and may be open a discussion on weather doing something such as this is worth putting into user reviews and recommendations if in case the information is indeed not from the heart and the experience of oneself.

There is also the weekly review contest to take into account here. Plagiarism = cheating.

maybe he is the author of the other review as well ?

I'm sure they do, but they can't read every review on the internet for any given game.

True, but I'm sure Goggle helps. It certainly does when I'm tracking down sources of translations that sometimes land in my mail box.

I'm shocked that in this day and age, someone would actually try to plagiarize something from the internet to be used somewhere else on the internet. The ease at which you would be caught doing that is laughable, as proven by how quickly this possible case was noticed.
I really hope that is not plagiarized, because that would be a really, really uncool thing for ajh209 to do.

Oh dear. Here I was reading the review too, thinking what a great review it was. I hope ajh is indeed that other dude on Eurogamer

I hope he just copied his own review...

Well if he ever reads this topic then that's going to be the first thing out of his... keyboard. Maybe someone should contact the Eurogamer user and find out :)