Lair, a different opinion after EGM's review?

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EGM: Site Statistics Coverage: 3DO, DC, DS, GB, GBA, GBC, GC, GEN, JAG, MOBILE, N64, NEO, NGE, PC, PS, PS2, PS3, PSP, SAT, SCD, SNES, WII, X360, XBOX Last Article: 8/1/2007 Number of All Reviews: 4257 Number of All Other Articles: 4912 Site's Avg Score for All: 6.7 Site's Avg Ratio For All: 67.4% GR Avg Ratio for All titles this site has reviewed: 71.6% Difference: -4.1% Number of All Reviews Higher than the Average: 1381 Number of All Reviews Lower than the Average: 2876 Percentage of All Reviews Higher: 32.4% Average Article Vote for All: 3.5 Stars Total Article Votes for All: 679 Total Hits for All Articles: 75541 Total Traffic sent to site from Reviews, News and Files since 4/27/02: 79464 PLAY UK: Site Statistics Coverage: GC, PS, PS2, PS3, PSP Last Article: 9/1/2007 Number of All Reviews: 1106 Number of All Other Articles: 619 Site's Avg Score for All: 72.6 Site's Avg Ratio For All: 73.1% GR Avg Ratio for All titles this site has reviewed: 72.2% Difference: 0.9% Number of All Reviews Higher than the Average: 676 Number of All Reviews Lower than the Average: 430 Percentage of All Reviews Higher: 61.1% Average Article Vote for All: 4.0 Stars Total Article Votes for All: 5 Total Hits for All Articles: 1084 Total Traffic sent to site from Reviews, News and Files since 4/27/02: 1465 Gamezone Site Statistics Coverage: DC, DS, GBA, GBC, GC, MOBILE, N64, NGE, PC, PS, PS2, PS3, PSP, WII, X360, XBOX Last Article: 7/27/2007 Number of All Reviews: 4463 Number of All Other Articles: 3383 Site's Avg Score for All: 7.7 Site's Avg Ratio For All: 76.6% GR Avg Ratio for All titles this site has reviewed: 70.4% Difference: 6.1% Number of All Reviews Higher than the Average: 3598 Number of All Reviews Lower than the Average: 865 Percentage of All Reviews Higher: 80.6% Average Article Vote for All: 3.8 Stars Total Article Votes for All: 8396 Total Hits for All Articles: 1473273 Total Traffic sent to site from Reviews, News and Files since 4/27/02: 1488037 Edge UK Site Statistics Coverage: DS, GBA, GC, JAG, N64, NGE, PC, PS, PS2, PS3, PSP, WII, X360, XBOX Last Article: 7/1/2007 Number of All Reviews: 777 Number of All Other Articles: 1093 Site's Avg Score for All: 6.3 Site's Avg Ratio For All: 63.2% GR Avg Ratio for All titles this site has reviewed: 75.7% Difference: -12.5% Number of All Reviews Higher than the Average: 81 Number of All Reviews Lower than the Average: 696 Percentage of All Reviews Higher: 10.4% Average Article Vote for All: 3.5 Stars Total Article Votes for All: 25 Total Hits for All Articles: 2640 Total Traffic sent to site from Reviews, News and Files since 4/27/02: 2640 GamePro Site Statistics Coverage: DC, DS, GBA, GBC, GC, GEN, MAC, MOBILE, N64, NEO, NGE, PC, PS, PS2, PS3, PSP, SAT, SCD, SNES, WII, X360, XBOX Last Article: 8/1/2007 Number of All Reviews: 3334 Number of All Other Articles: 5928 Site's Avg Score for All: 4.1 Site's Avg Ratio For All: 77.0% GR Avg Ratio for All titles this site has reviewed: 74.0% Difference: 3.0% Number of All Reviews Higher than the Average: 2153 Number of All Reviews Lower than the Average: 1181 Percentage of All Reviews Higher: 64.6% Average Article Vote for All: 3.5 Stars Total Article Votes for All: 19116 Total Hits for All Articles: 1876561 Total Traffic sent to site from Reviews, News and Files since 4/27/02: 1896951 http://gamerankings.com/itemrankings/sites.asp If you look into the details of each of the sites you'll see some crazy high and low scores for each of these reviewers; all of them have reviewed games at 30% below/above the average review score. All in all, Lair may just be a game that you either love or hate and a wide range of reviews would suggest that.