albionus on 31 August 2007
| Diomedes1976 said: And just to end this discussion here you have Lair ratings from the mags IGN.com 08/30/07 4.9 /10 4.9 GameZone Online 08/30/07 7.5 /10 7.5 GameDaily 08/30/07 3 /5 6.0 PSM 08/24/07 5 /10 5.0 Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) 07/30/07 6 /10 6.0 Play Magazine 07/29/07 9 /10 9.0 And the average from the users in IGN own website is 6.60 with some 200 people voting . So ,this game may not be a killer app or anything but IGn has scored it the lowest possible and 1.7 points less than the average user would .That reinforces my idea that the reviewer just got frustrated with the game .But as you will see after HS this is the second high profile game where the IGN score is the lower out there .And that was what I was speaking about . |
PSM gave Lair a 5, essentially what IGN gave it. EGM and Gamedaily gave it a 6 which isn't that much better than a 5. Play gave it a 9 but they hand out 9's and 10's like candy to odd games. I've never heard of Gamezone. So yeah 4 of those reviews, incidentally the 4 reliable ones, basically agree with each other.
To be fair to the IGN reviewer, he, as IGN reviews almost always do, gave reasons in the review that justify his score. Not to say you have to or will agree with them but it's not like other recent games (*cough* Metroid Prime 3 *cough*) where the review was contradictory with out of place comparisons and complaints that weren't also levelled at other similar games that in the end didn't justify the score.
