Dryden said:
And the other 19% are morons. I just read the biased ones that are biased towards my platforms, and ignore the ones that are biased against my platforms.
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Fixed. IGN are just about the only good reviewers left. EuroGamer and GameSpot are improving, but they have a lot of work to do.
Possibly even worse than Variety is Edge. They give Gears 2 and Left 4 Dead both 9/10 (fair enough)
THEN they give Resistance 2 a 6/10 and Valkyria Chronicles a 7/10.
They used to be idiots, now they are fanboys. They gave BioShock a 7/10, for god's sake.
I think the turning point was when they gave a perfect score to LBP. M$ didn't like this. M$ forked over some money. Apparently, they need TWO biased reviewers at any point:
1) GameSpot and - (didn't last long)
2) GameSpot and EuroGamer
3) EuroGamer and Variety
4) Variety and Edge
Of course, Microsoft actually DOES have a deal with Variety (it's been proven) so they'll last a while. I think Edge will be the next to go. Who will replace them? 1UP?
All I know is that IGN will never fall into the trap.