jarrod on 13 March 2010
Doing only "above 80" is only 20% of the picture though. There's plenty of (even big name) 360 exclusives that EDGE puts below the meta average... Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey immediately come to mind.
There's also the issue of EDGE actually using the "full scale" unlike the vast majority of other industry media. This impacts 1UP too, and most review sites trying to shift to letter grades. For EDGE a 4-6 is "average", but I'd argue that a score of 40-60 on meta is pretty far from what the industry considers "average".
8 for GOW3 is actually a great score from EDGE. That puts it among the best of the best, and on par or above anything else in it's specific (sub)genre but Bayonetta actually.
