"One of my favourite games this gen only got a meta score of 83, but I think it's awesome"

One of my favorites this gen got even less then that. Then games I think are horrible have got really high scores.  

A lot of the Reach reviews still bash ODST, which Is probably my favorite Halo Campaign.  The sooner people stop worrying about review scores about games they will never play anyway, the better.

@Yo_John

Chill out dude, Halo 3 got plenty of scores below 90 and it still managed a 94, hell it got scores below 80 too.

Currently after 22 reviews Reach has a 93 with 8 of those being perfect scores making roughly 36 percent of the total reviews as perfect. Meanwhile Halo 3 only had 23 percent of its total reviews as being perfect.

Also take into account that many reviewers lowered Halo 3's score because they said it didn't meet the level of hype and epicness they expected from the marketing. While Reach will undoubtedly suffer some of the same, the advertising campaign wasn't as in your face as Halo 3's was which will probably mean that some of the more obscure review sites actually mark it fairly and not off some preconceived notion of what they expect the game to be.

The score has already gone down to a 92 with 17 reviews and back up to a 93 with 22 so more reviews don't necessarily mean the score is going to go down. In fact I'm willing to bet it stays around a 93.

And even if it doesn't, who really cares. Play the game, enjoy it and don't stress over what other people say. Some of the greatest novels and movies of all time were seen as complete disasters by critics when they first came out and were only seen for their brilliance a decade or more later.

x2 what a biased mother f****.

@Yo_John

Chill out dude, Halo 3 got plenty of scores below 90 and it still managed a 94, hell it got scores below 80 too.

Currently after 22 reviews Reach has a 93 with 8 of those being perfect scores making roughly 36 percent of the total reviews as perfect. Meanwhile Halo 3 only had 23 percent of its total reviews as being perfect.

Also take into account that many reviewers lowered Halo 3's score because they said it didn't meet the level of hype and epicness they expected from the marketing. While Reach will undoubtedly suffer some of the same, the advertising campaign wasn't as in your face as Halo 3's was which will probably mean that some of the more obscure review sites actually mark it fairly and not off some preconceived notion of what they expect the game to be.

The score has already gone down to a 92 with 17 reviews and back up to a 93 with 22 so more reviews don't necessarily mean the score is going to go down. In fact I'm willing to bet it stays around a 93.

And even if it doesn't, who really cares. Play the game, enjoy it and don't stress over what other people say. Some of the greatest novels and movies of all time were seen as complete disasters by critics when they first came out and were only seen for their brilliance a decade or more later.

Dude, Giant Bomb is probably the most reliable site on that whole list. They are independent and they consist of ex Gamespot members who left the site because they decided to go against big publishers who pay for good reviews. The person who reviewed Reach was fired because he didn't listen to Eidos and gave Kane and Lynch a low score, Jeff Gerstman is one of the better reviewers in the industry and also one of the most trust worthy. Go to their sites and you'll see that they have no ad's, they don't make money off of review hits.

The sites that gave Reach a high score are more likely to be in Microsoft's pockets because they have Microsoft ads all over their sites. Calm down and get a grip on reality.

is there any reason it only has 12 maps? surely they could have fitted as many as halo 3. i hear most of the maps are from previous halo games? or possibly 6 new maps the rest old ones.

10 out of the first 20 scores are perfect. That's pretty solid. If a game is good enough that half of the people who play it believe it is flawless you can't really ask for much more.

Reality is this pure and simple... Reach = 10. Enough said... I dont care about giant Bomb that review is biased and that guy is probably a Halo hater.

A lot of companies know by slating Halo Reach they will get free advertising. People will visit their site to read the bad review rather then go and read every 100% score.