Wow! Look at this review for the PC version of GTA4

[scottie]

I'm going to take this thread as proof that my 'the words are more important than the numbers' opinion of reviews is valid.

1/10 seems surprising. But lets look at some quotes from the review

"What I’m not expecting is the game to crash with a cryptic error message, something along the lines of NMN Code 40. Checking online tells me that error means I don’t have XP SP3 installed"

"I’m willing to give it a shot and install SP3, which I do."

"Install (of SP3) complete, I do the reboot and cross my fingers. Windows comes up, and it’s back to GTA 4. The graphics setup confirms that I’m going to be running at the lowest resolution with absolutely everything turned off. Such is life. There’s a benchmarking tool and I decide to give that a go, which results in crashing the game back to my desktop. I go online (gta4.net) where several people are reporting that problem, and maybe it’s due to outdated graphics drivers. I just updated them for S:CS, but what the heck, and Nvidia does have a new set of drivers."

"New graphics drivers installed I give it another go. The benchmarking tool still crashes the game"

"Just about the time that I think I should be maybe investigating the plot train a little bit I notice a considerable drop in frame rates, slide show time. I check to see if my computer is suddenly doing something else and it’s not. I wander around a little bit to see if it improves, perhaps my problem is limited to some part of the city, and it’s not that either. Back at the forums people are discussing a serious memory leak, and I believe that’s what I’m looking at. Some people claim that a simple reboot will correct it, and while I find it irritating that I’m going to have to play the game in ½ hour chunks, I can at least give that a try. Only when I reboot the graphics are screwed up again, and uninstalling and reinstalling the graphics drivers doesn’t correct the problem. Uninstalling the graphics drivers, rebooting in safe mode, scrubbing the driver files, rebooting, and reinstalling the drivers doesn’t fix the problem either. I’ve even tried three back versions of the graphics drivers without effect. I’m at a complete loss, and that’s where I stand to this day. "

I hope you've learnt something about reducing something as complex as a game to a single number.