Y'all need to stop over hyping this racing game

To answer the question - no, not at all. Signal is reviewing GT5 by the way, not me.

I don't ever see us giving a game a 10. I certainly hope we don't, anyway. Not sure how the other content editors feel, but that's how I feel.

I start getting antsy whenever someone proposes a score above 9.2 for a game. Blind panic sets in at about 9.5 or over. I dunno what a 10 would do to me, but I'd rather not find out :/

Racing game which potentially has the most quality/quantity ever should NOT get less than any other racing game VGS has ever rated atleast. :)

People saying there is no such thing as a perfect game should look into Tetris.  Tetris games start at 10/10, and they get docked points for flaws that they add to the perfect formula.  Other games start at 7 for some reason, and they struggle to work their way up to 9 or down to 6.

As for GT5, it's not even a racing game, so comparing it to other racers is pointless.  It will probably be our highest rated virtual carshop simulation app though.

No. Fallout 3 only got an 8.3 and it was the best game of 2008 so best game of 2010 I'd expect maybe an 8.1 from GT5.

I seriously doubt GT5 will be better than GRiD, which is imo the best racer ever. I don't expect a lot of people to agree with me, but at least GRiD proves you can have an amazing racegame with just 50 or so cars. For me a race game is about the racing, not the car porn. Not suggesting that GT5 won't have good racing, I obviously haven't played it yet.

Hope you're not being serious. O_o

That comes down to your own definition of average imo. To me I expect every game to be fun and functional if those two criteria are met the game is average-good to me which would be a 7. If the game isn't all that fun or all that functional that is when you dip into the mediocre to abysmal category which is 5 and below.