Why do you read reviews or better yet why do you use reviews?

[Kantor]

Valkyria00 said:

Kantor said:
Because the reviewer has played the whole game, and if he's good, learned to be objective when reviewing.

A game like God of War III, I would buy if it got bad reviews, because I know it's good. I've played the other three games, and loved all of them. Although no God of War has below 90 on Metacritic...

A game like Wanted: Weapons of Fate is different. I enjoyed the demo, but I know that a demo is not an accurate representation of the quality of a game. If it gets at least 8.5 from IGN, I might buy it, otherwise, I'll spend my money elsewhere, like on Valkyria Chronicles or Fallout 3.

How do you know the reviewer is any good?

How do you know the game is good if its not finished or you have not played it? You are already sold on a game thats not finished and you have never played and if it were trashed by reviewers you would still get it.

Yet a game you have played "Wanted" which you said to have enjoyed gets trashed by reviewers you will not get it?

 

 

I played the demo of Wanted, it seemed interesting. But there are games which I know to be excellent coming out soon or that I do not have. It appeared from the demo that the game would get quite repetitive, the reviewer will have played the full game while I will only have played the first level. From the first level of The Force Unleashed, I thought it would be an excellent game, but it went slowly downhill. Still good, but I'm glad I only borrowed it after the somewhat lackluster review scores; pretty much no replay value, some 7 hours long.

And then, there's Ninja Gaiden Sigma. I enjoyed the demo, it got excellent reviews, and I ended up hating it. Go figure.

Now, when I say "bad reviews" for God of War III, I don't mean "bad" at all, I mean below 8. Not happening, I know. If it got 7.5s, I would still get it. If it got 3s and 4s, I would leave it.

Before I started using IGN and Metacritic, and only used GameSpot, GS gave Tools of Destruction a 7.5. But it was a Ratchet and Clank game, and I bought it. That was the day I finally lost faith in GameSpot, for giving a game easily worthy of a 9+ a 7.5. I then discovered that IGN gave it a 9.4, and I haven't listened to GameSpot since.