Metacritic: mass effect 2 (xbox 360) vs mass effect 2 (pc)

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Andysw said:

I just looked at the metacritic scores for the xbox 360 and pc versions of mass effect 2. To my suprise, the pc version scores a 94 vs a 96 for the xbox 360 version.

I don't get this. You have two identical versions of the same game, and yet one version scores higher than the other. Can someone explain?

This happans a lot - look at Halo PC vs Xbox for example.  The fact is PC reviewers will be reviewing vs PC titles as well as PC historic titles.  For example if you've played a while on PC Bioshock wasn't an amazing leap forward but the latest incarnation of a game like System Shock.

As such it's not uncommon for titles to be seen as less amazing on PC.  The fact the scores are so close, and high, shows that on both systems the title is very good.  As a PC gamer myself I often mind myself less impressed than console specific gamers with many titles due to this.  ME2 is really good though.