Heavy Rain IGN review

[CommonMan]

Kantor said:

A Bad Clown said:

CGI-Quality said:

A Bad Clown said:
I don't get how they rate games now, 2 8.5s and an 8 should make it like 8.6, and yes I did the math. You add the numbers and multiply by 2 and that's your percent.

I don't think it's that serious. Bottomline, this game has shattered many doubts this day and I hope to now see more risks taken within the industry.

I know, but it makes many of the actual detail ratings seem pointless. If they wanted to give it a 9 no questions asked don't include them. I'm sure it's a good game but I hate how they put games like Bioshock 2 only .1 higher that Heavy Rain and it has an 8 and 2 8.5s.

That's because the component scores aren't all equally important, so an average is illogical. Also, component scores can only be given to multiples of 0.5, and many games are better than the sum of their parts- on paper, they don't sound great, but "fun", the most important part of the game, is too subjective to have its own sub-category.

I wonder sometimes if IGN shouldn't just go to a weighted average with their review scores, everyone averages it anyway. At least then they could do it the way they want to and wouldn't get flamed by all the people who can't even be arsed to read (not an average), come on! It's 3 words!