Read the score, decide what the game should score in your opinion (doesn't matter if you played the game or not) and then see if the score is reflecting what you want or if the site is biased/paid off or just giving a "wrong" score for clickbait. ;)

LOL THIS

In many of the websites, I read them like this:

10: Incredible, astounding, memorable. GOTY nominee by default and GOTG nominee.
9.9-9.0: An excellent game with tons of replay value.
8.9-8.0: A good game that it's worth to pick up.
7.9-7.0: Decent game with its obvious flaws. Replay value drops dramatically.
6.9-5.5: Not very good. Flaws overshadows the good stuff. Fans of the game will buy it regardless.
5.4-3.0: Typical unfinished game that doesn't deserve any attention.
2.9-0: Atrocious, insulting, offending. Blatant and obvious cash grab.

Sure, there is more depth in my scoring, but I'm not gonna write a wall of words.

I don't bother with video game reviews!

1-4 nope

5-7 ok ,good

8-9 very good ,great

10/10 masterpiece

Oh yeah... didn't think of that

That's the way it should be... but I don't know if that's how it really is

1-6.9 is bad. 7-7.9 isn't very good. 8-10 is good.

That's pretty much how every journalistic review site reads. I don't score that way, I'd consider something that's mediocre but playable a 4/10, okay a 5/10, and 6/10to 10/10 are varying ranks of good. 6/10 to 10/10 as a good game atleast gives a better idea of how much better of a game it is than everything being ranked an 8/10 to 10/10.

For example. Say Final Fantasy 1 through 10 are the only RPGs ever released and let's just say all of them were good. They're not going to be completely equal and you're going to have a different opinion about all of them. Rating all 10 games 8/10 to 10/10 doesn't really give you an idea on how much better one is than the other. Obviously there's more than 10 games developed, so a lot of games are still going to be rated the same, but five different ratings give you more of an idea of a games difference in quality than three.

I read the words in the article. Disregard the headline and score because those exist for clicks. 95% of the people that complain about reviews and even previews don't bother to either read or watch the video attached and then complain about the scores or confirm them without even a second thought. All the ocmplaints about destiny I read are silly, no one is blown away or changing their score for the real downfall and that is lack of socialization and ease of joining groups. It is the same as IGN constantly bashing the order when the guy playing it was playing it wrong and skipped tutorials. No one cares for substance.

I never check review scores nor do I heed them as a determining factor in purchasing games. I pretty much know if I'm going to purchase a game from seeing the screenshots alone and which genre the game belongs to. It doesn't always work this way but I usually know that I'm going to purchase 3rd person games and actions/adventure RPGs and know that I'm not going to purchase turn-based RPGs and 1st person shooters. Review scores mean nothing to me.