IGN: Mass Effect 2 is Better than Uncharted 2 - "Deal with it, fanboy"

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In Greg Miller's defence I will point out his stated reason for writing the editorial and directing it at ravening PS3 fanboys. It was, he claims, because of the hew and cry over ME2 getting a better review score on IGN than UC2.

His editorial was directed at those people who, apparently, went nutso over a 0.1 difference in review score between these 2 mighty games. No need to launch into a discussion on how ridiculous it is for reviews to even go down to 0.1 increments in game reviews (looking at VGC here too). Anyone who goes off at such an inconsequential difference deserves to be called a fanboy and deserves to be told to deal with it.

OK so now the criticism. Miller did exactly what the PS3 Uncharted 2 nutjobs did, just without the expletives: blew a 0.1 score difference out of all proportion by proceeding to tell everyone how ME2 must be universally accepted as the superior game, because he says so. Dumb, dumb angle to take on this issue, unless you want to incite further angst in people. His own personal preference for ME2 over Uncharted 2 should have occupied 1 paragraph at most, but even better 1 sentence. The rest of his editorial should have been a lecture on how people need to grow up, get over themselves and learn to accept that reviewers' opinions will differ. The important thing about a review is whether the reviewer justifies the score in general by what he/she writes as being the important issues in a game (the things the game does well, the things the game doesn't do well).