Yeah, I also have mistrust of review sites. Video game reviews have two major problems going for them. The first, is that a lot of reviewers are simply fans. Fans tend to be narrow minded and "fanatical," that severely impairs their judgement. The second problem with video game reviews are that review sites and magazines often times get exclusive interviews, previews, demos and games from game publishers. If a magazine or site is critical of a game, the game's publisher might not be as friendly in the future-- this makes the magazine or site more 'friendlier' in their reviews.
I don't read many reviews or visit many sites but in the olden days, it seemed to me that Next-Generation magazine was pretty critical of every game. Great games, that everyone could agree where "10s" did not get perfect scores in Next-Gen. Very few games got top scores in that magazine.
I also trust Penny-Arcade.com. They seem critical about everything. And the stuff they love, they are also critical about. They love many genres of games and don't appear to fall into any 'fanboy mindsets'. They love Nintendo, MS and Sony. They don't care if its a "kiddie" game. And they don't let nice visuals fool them.
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