Reviews on the Run
Reviews on the Run (formerly known as Judgment Day in the United States and "Reviews on the Rock" in the earlier seasons of "The Electric Playground") is a video game review TV show hosted by Victor Lucas and Scott C. Jones (permanently replacing the position vacated by Tommy Tallarico). The show is produced by Lucas' company Greedy Productions. The two hosts rate games independently on a scale of .5 point increments from 0 through 10, with 0 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. The show has aired in Canada on G4 Canada and City , with pre-2006 episodes airing on G4 in the United States. The show was previously shown in Canada on CTV Two, Space, Razer, and OMNI.1. The show came to an end in 2014, where it reverted into segment on "The Electric Playground" (now known as "EP Daily"). The show is filmed on location at several different locales around Vancouver, British Columbia. Episodes are also occasionally recorded in other cities, such as Tokyo, Japan. A common trademark of the show is to have the hosts stand in frame as video game footage is projected onto an object in the background such as  a billboard or the side of a building. The show is filmed over the course of several hours and later edited to fit the show's thirty-minute time frame. History. "Reviews on the Run" began as a segment on "The Electric Playground" at the end of each episode. In 2002, the show was spun off into its own half-hour program. For the United States audience, it was renamed to "Judgment Day" and launched alongside the G4 channel in April 2002. On January 13, 2006, Lucas announced on the G4 forums that "Judgment Day" was no longer going to  be produced for G4. The program continued to run internationally (including on G4 Canada) as the original "Reviews on the Run". Specific details about the negotiations have not been disclosed, and the show has not returned to U.S. airwaves with new episodes since then, other than as a segment on "The Electric Playground". On December 31, 2006, Lucas announced on "The Electric Playground" forums that Greedy Productions had canceled its contract with CHUM television, which broadcast "Electric Playground" and "Reviews on the Run" on Space and A-Channel, and signed a two-year exclusive deal with Rogers Communications, to broadcast  the shows on G4 Canada and then additionally on other Rogers owned TV stations. "Reviews on the Run" aired on OMNI.1 from January 28, 2007 to September 3, 2007. On December 15, 2007, "Reviews on the Run" premiered on Citytv Toronto and Citytv Vancouver. On June 2, 2008, G4 started airing episodes of "Judgment Day" as a part of their G4 Rewind block. On February 17, 2010, Lucas announced on "The Electric Playground" forums that "Reviews on the Run" would become a daily show, beginning March 1, 2010, and that the scope of the show would be expanded to include  reviews of Blu-rays, movies, gadgets, tech, PC and console gaming peripherals, hardware and graphic novels. On February 19, 2015, Lucas announced that the standalone "Reviews on the Run" show would not continue. The final new episode aired in Canada on Citytv and G4 on December 12, 2014. Reviews would once again be featured as a segment in the 25th season of "EP Daily". Starting with the review of "Gods of Egypt", released on February 25, 2016, the segment became truncated. After that show ended its TV run later in the year, the "Reviews on the Run" brand has continued  to be used for short videos released on the "Electric Playground" YouTube channel hosted by Lucas and the occasional guest. Cast. Reviewers. Victor Lucas and Tommy Tallarico have been both co-workers and good friends since their first meeting at E3 in 1995. Onscreen the two enjoy plenty of brotherly scraps, with Tallarico typically playing the role of a more aggressive, even gutter-minded gamer and Lucas being more businesslike and sedate. During the "Hardware" segment of "Reviews on the Run", Tallarico has occasionally taken the video gaming hardware (console controllers for example) that they were reviewing, and put it  down the front of his pants he was wearing, to the disgust of Lucas. Due to commitments with Video Games Live, Tallarico was absent for six episodes from the 2006 season, and the majority of the last two seasons (though he has returned for a few select episodes) Geoff Keighley co-hosted with Lucas in all of the 2006 episodes. Tallarico missed the 2007 and 2008 seasons of the show, which featured a number of guest hosts, including Keighley, Scott Jones, Tom Russo, Marc Saltzman, José "Fubar" Sánchez, Ben Silverman, and Steve Tilley. In early 2010, Jeff Cannata, co-host  of The Totally Rad Show, joined the cast as a guest reviewer. Shortly thereafter, he accepted daily duty, reviewing newly released Blu-rays alongside Miri Jedeikin. On June 11, 2009, Lucas announced on "The Electric Playground" website that Scott Jones would be joining him full-time as his co-host on the show. Video games with perfect-score reviews. The following is a list of games that have been given a perfect 10/10 score by both hosts since the expansion to the half-hour format. This list includes games that were given a 10/10 score by a reviewer, but was  not unanimous. Lowest-rated game. The lowest rated game ever on the show was Halo Jump for the iPad, which reviewer Shaun Hatton gave a -10, making it the third game to score less than 0 on the show. The first 0/10 was given by Tallarico for the game "High Heat Major League Baseball 2003"; he hated the game so much he stormed off partway through the review, followed by sounds of a car screeching away. Tallarico's hatred for the game would end up being a running gag throughout his stint of being host. The lowest rated handheld game  was "" (Nintendo DS), which received a 0/10 from Tommy. Highest-rated portable handheld games. Here are a list of games that got perfect 10 on handheld on the show since it went on from Victor, Scott and Tommy: "Namco Museum Battle" (PSP), "New Super Mario Bros." (Nintendo DS), "Ken Griffey Jr's Slugfest" (Game Boy Color), "Yoshi's Island Advance" (Game Boy Advance) and "" (PSP). "Flipnote Studios" (Nintendo DSi) and "Sketch Nation" (iPhone/iPad) both got a 10/10 since the show went daily by Victor, making the highest-rated downloadable games to date since it the show became daily. "Papa  Sangre" (iphone/Ipod) received a perfect score from Scott Jones. "Plants vs. Zombies" (DS) is the first 10/10 by New host Shaun Hatton Differing opinions. Sometimes, the two hosts will have completely differing opinions on a game, with one giving way different scores than the other. (An example of this was the 2005 review of "We Love Katamari"; while Lucas enjoyed the gameplay and pointed out the good of the game, Tallarico hated the game, particularly its music. The result: Lucas gave it an 8.5/10 while Tallarico gave it a 3/10.) Another example of this happened while reviewing "The Green  Hornet": Victor enjoyed the movie giving it an 8.0/10 while Scott Jones gave it a 4.0/10.