If A.O (and any of the Amiga world) has got to the point where you can't say a bad word about a company because they might withdraw their advertising/funding or whatever its very sad.
Who knows, maybe Freespace and Quake2 got such good reviews in Total Amiga because the guy who did it (I don't read it so...) was worried Hyperion might not send anymore games his way if he wrote bad things about them.
Who knows, maybe his personal opinion of Hyperion biased his review, or maybe he just wanted to give it a good review because Hyperion are one of the few companies still doing something for the Amiga.
Then again, maybe they are just great games.
Cheers,
Navvie.