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mike_intellivision said:
To build upon what Rol said, there are some reviewers who mark down games if they aren't HD or wide screen.

Since the Wii games are not HD or wide screeen by definition, Wii games often start with a one-point deduction compared to those of PS3 and 360.

An interesting project would be to analyze scores to see if there is a bias for or against any console by any magazine/site/show.

Any volunteers?

Mike from Morgantown

PS -- I feel that sometimes scores get mistreated in the upconvert. Three stars on X-Play (which has gone downhill since in trying to be a news show instead of a subversive review show, IMHO) is more like 70%-75% but gets coverted to 60% (three-fifths). Four stars is more like 85%-90% but gets converted to 80% (four-fifths). Any system not based upon 100 (or 10 with tenths) leads to distorted scores on meta-review sites.


 See Gameraknings "Lots-A-statistics" then "Site Statistics".  All the work is done for you. 

Just click on the website.  Click on each console individually, and you can find the average deviated score from the rest of the websties on gamerankings.  (For examle say a -.5 for the Wii showing games are usually rated .5% less.  7.5's should be 8's etc.)  You need to do it for all three systems though as 360 and PS3 may also have .5% less in which case there wouldn't be bias but instead they are just a hard reviwer.  



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DMeisterJ said:
^ X-Play isn't exactly the place to go for reviews. They will talk about a game like a dog, but still give it a 5/5 (Halo 3 single player). Then, they will praise a game to the heavens and give it a 4/5 (Burnout Paradise, and a host of others). I place ign above all places for reviews. Edge gives out high scores all the time, and gamepro is a joke. And when you are grading out of ten, anything seven and below is bad. You can see they only use six and below to describe truly horrible games, average games don't get sixes, they get seven point fives. a 7.8 translates to a 3/5 in terms of stars.

Bwhuuuh? You couldn't be more out their.

Edge is the harshest respectable reviewer out there. You owe edge an apology man.

IGN's average review score is 69.5

Edge's average review score is a 63.4.


Edge is far harsher then IGN. This is even more apparent when you consider the fact that IGN reviews more games aka horrible shovelware... making the difference even more.

For example Edge Magazine has 35 Wii reviews. IGN has 165 Wii reviews. How many of those extra 130 reviews do you think were big games? How many do you think have extremely low scores?

You owe Edge a HUUUUUGE apology.



As long as the GameRankings score, remains over 80%, it is recommended to buy!



THis score is unexpected. All those weeks of praising the game hwo awesome the controls were (in past comments).

Now finally when they do review the game they suddenlty mentio all the flaws. Why didn't they do that before? They made the game sound like a 9 all that hype they gave it then this.

WHat I am getting at is I wish they would stop over hyping games cause it makes people more dissapointed when it doesnt get a score equivalent to the hype. none the less 7.8 is a decent score. I will try this game out.



 

 

The review system is broken this gen anyways, great games get a 8.5 and shitty ones get a 8, while other games get near perfect scores like SMG and Halo3 when infact they should be a full point lower. Plus gamespot gave R&C a 7.5 when infact its way better the SMG.



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Cobretti2 said:

WHat I am getting at is I wish they would stop over hyping games cause it makes people more dissapointed when it doesnt get a score equivalent to the hype. none the less 7.8 is a decent score. I will try this game out.
 Because of too many games being so hyped up is one reason why I read the lower score reviews.

 



Griffin said:
The review system is broken this gen anyways, great games get a 8.5 and shitty ones get a 8, while other games get near perfect scores like SMG and Halo3 when infact they should be a full point lower. Plus gamespot gave R&C a 7.5 when infact its way better the SMG.

Somebody sounding fanboyish right now?

Anyways SMG is superior in every shape and form to Ratchet unless you count graphics and yes ive played and beaten both.



 


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What's wrong with a 7.8? Anything over 75 is a good game, that's why metacritic marks them green. 7.8 means play it!



OnE3nD said:
Griffin said:
The review system is broken this gen anyways, great games get a 8.5 and shitty ones get a 8, while other games get near perfect scores like SMG and Halo3 when infact they should be a full point lower. Plus gamespot gave R&C a 7.5 when infact its way better the SMG.

Somebody sounding fanboyish right now?

Anyways SMG is superior in every shape and form to Ratchet unless you count graphics and yes ive played and beaten both.


SMG is in no way better then R&C, graphics, gameplay, camera, controls and the story are all better in R&C.  Plus the most important thing is fun factor and SMG has none of that.