How Trustworthy Are Reviews?

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Torillian said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Torillian said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

 

  Then explain why reviewers went to an acitivision showing of MW2 to do the review, all expenses paid.

 

Then notice that the user reviews of MW2 are far lower than the critics reviews of the game

The reason for that is simple.  MW2 took away alot of things that PC players love, and therefore they downrated it whereever possible like crazy.  Done and done.

LOL, or maybe its because the game was overhyped and under delivers, the PS3 version has 723 ratings, and the 360 has 1180, its not just people running around downvoting it because they didn't like the PC version.

So you don't trust reviewers, but you trust random fanboys on the internet?  They don't even have to justify what their doing, just click a button.  Those 1903 ratings could all be done by 6 people.

When most games are reviewed, the user reviews tend to be in the same ballpark, sometimes a little higher or a little lower, these many poor reviews of a game, which the critics supposedly rated so highly sends up warning flags, and its not the first I've heard of people saying the game was overhyped.

Sure it could be just a few fanboys dragging it down, but unlikely I've seen a lot of disappointment from this game, not just on Metacritic, but acorss a bunch of forums, and blog posts, etc.