Metacritic is biased

[scottie]

Boutros said:

http://www.notaboutgames.com/home/2009/09/metacritic-math.html

I’ve just found a very strange thing about the metacritic score and how the final numbers are rounded. Take a look at Halo3:ODST and Uncharted 2 and how they are treated differently.

HALO 3 ODST
Total score 5169 in 62 reviews= 83,3
The final score is rounded UP to 84

UNCHARTED 2
Total 2046 in 21 reviews=97,4
The final score this time is rounded DOWN to 97

wtf?

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lol. How can we be sure he calculated right though... He might be biased himself.

Guh. Metacritic doesn't just average the review scores. reviews from sites like IGN are weighted more heavily