One more thing. It would be practically impossible to find a single game reviewing publication that doesn't provide a score at the end. This is completely different to any other artistic field like the aformentioned, because you'll always find publications that don't bother to score their reviews. They trust the content within their reviews to tell you what it is about. What doesn't help is that most gaming magazines are glorified picture books, made for people more into looking at the pretty pictures than reading the content surrounding them.
It's come to the point that the emphasis of the review is to score it and the writing within takes a step to the side because it's of less importance. How many here have judged a review based solely on the score without bothering to read the context? Don't worry, it's not entirely your fault. One reason why could be because most reviews are glorified game manuals that explain to you what the game does, but do not explain at all why you should or should not like it. You rely on the score to help explain what the surgically precise and cold review does not. That's because again, games are reviewed like Avast Antivirus and not Disney Pixar's Up.
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