GameSpot reviewed The Expanse: A Telltale Series with three episodes and five episodes at the same time.

The first number crime is right there in the editor's note: this review 'encompasses episodes one, two, and three' of a five-episode game, which is like inspecting three tires and declaring the whole bus emotionally roadworthy. Then, somehow, the article starts talking about 'the end of the fifth and final episode' like a spreadsheet found a wormhole behind cell D14. The math aint mathing; it is wearing a fake mustache and trying to board a flight to Mars.

GameSpot's review wants the authority of a final verdict while carrying the receipt of a partial playthrough in its own pocket, which is less criticism and more a calculator crime scene taped off with embargo notes. If you are reviewing an episodic choice game, the denominator is not decorative. Choices are literally the product's promise; reviewing the consequences before the series is complete is like grading a pregnancy test after only one line has loaded and calling yourself a fertility philosopher.

The funniest part is that the review spends paragraphs praising meaningful consequences, unique outcomes, and no loose ends while its own methodology has loose ends flapping behind it like space laundry. This is a review about choices that cannot decide what it has actually reviewed. It praises narrative payoff with the confidence of a bank robber using Monopoly money: loud, specific, and technically colorful, but please do not ask it to survive an audit.

Forensics summary: either the piece was updated without making the timeline clear, or GameSpot published a review whose scope changed shape mid-article like a ruler made of soup. Neither option flatters the reviewer. An episodic game's ending is not a garnish you sprinkle on later; it is the part where the numbers finally close. We give this review a 2/10: three episodes out of five, credibility rounded down, calculator confiscated.