Now days you can pretty much predict what the scores will be before the reviews are even given. Hype/popularity and budget of the game series plays a dominate role in influencing the scores. I do look at them, because they will tend to slant a game up or a down a bit from what the predetermined score is supposed to be. However GTA4 highest game of the gen was a complete joke. If you pay attention to how the games are actually reviewed and find out about the lavish 'review events' reviewers are taken too, and then the reviewers pretend that they're above the influence and that there great weekend had no influence whatsoever in what they score a game is sad. I'm enjoying the hell out of MAG and so are thousands of others with it's 77 metascore, it just tells many of us that game reviewing is severely broken, and/or corrupt.
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