GameRankings - Metroid up, Bioshock down...

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Firstly - I don't want this thread to descend into a flame war about which game is better. Both are excellent, for different consoles, and different genres.

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I have been following the position of both titles on GameRankings quite closely. For those not familiar with gamerankings (.com), it shows a selective average of the reviews that a game gets. I believe it to be better than Metacritic, as it is more selective in terms of what reviews are allowed (so SDF here!).

http://gamerankings.com/ 

This is what I have seen:

Early scores:

- Bioshock: 96.5%-97.0% (ranked#2)
- Metroid: 90.0% 

(diff - 6.5%)

 

Recent scores:

 - Bioshock: 96.2% (ranked #4)
 - Metroid: 92.0%

(diff 4.2%)

 

Todays score:

 - Bioshock: 95.8% (ranked #6)
 - Metroid: 92.2%

(diff 3.6%)

 

Metroid will not overtake Bioshock - but I think it will end up quite close. I also believe that Bioshock was (initially) marked 'enthusiastically' - whereas Metroid was marked 'a little critically'.

 

You can see the total review list for each game here:

http://gamerankings.com/htmlpages4/928517.asp (Metroid)

http://gamerankings.com/htmlpages4/931329.asp (Bioshock)

A couple of random comments as well:

 - EDGE gave Bioshock an 8! I can barely believe it (very harsh), but then it IS EDGE.

 - Of the 4 '80s' scores received by Metroid, 3 of them were "early" scores (GameSpot, GamePro, Yahoo).  

 - the median score for Metroid is around the 9.5 mark (IGN score), the median score for Bioshock is around the 9.7 mark (also the IGN score). I think these scores are a good representative of each game.

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Anyway - I'm doing this primarily out of curiousity. Will probably update this every week or so, until the final scores settle.