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

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Reasonable said:

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.

Hmm... You are aware that Halo came out on PC 2 years after it released on the Xbox right? For a port of a 2 year old game that had to compete with more recent games I'd say Halo PC scored beter than most ports would under those circumstances. If you want to give good examples use games that are released simultaneously on both PC and consoles (like say... Modern Warfare 2).