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Rath on 06 May 2010
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radiantshadow92 said:
Khuutra said:
radiantshadow92 said:
Khuutra said:
radiantshadow92 said:
I do not care is it got a 1/10 or if Halo REACH got a 10/10, or even if they gave MGS4 a 10/10, they are still bad reviewers. I am not saying that SMG2 does not deserve the score, but either way, they have completely lost my trust as reviewers with ridiculous scores, so for now, i will wait for other reviews to go in.

This is actually a very good review. It's eloquent, lucid, and communicates everythingn that needs to be known about the game without needlessly weighing it down.

They write like that all the time. They are well written most of the time, but most of the time the scores are complete fish paste.

Do not judge a review on its score, but by its content. If you judge reviews based on their scores, you're basically ranking video games according to their title screens and ignoring everything else about them.

What reviewers need to realize is that they are the gaming media, and they're reviews affect whether a game sells or not in most cases. The score is just as important as the written review. The score affects how the readers look at the game, and their scores are bogus most of the time. I am not ranking video games according to score, rather saying that the score is a part of the review and should be just as good. I would bet that you would thing EDGE is bogus to if they gave SMG a 5, like they did FFXIII and WKC, that is just ridiculous.

Reviews are subjective, they are allowed any opinion they want. The score however must be properly justified in the review. The overall score is nearly meaningless without reading the review, you only get information on how much they liked the overall game without the reasons why they liked or didn't like it.

Also as for your last part, no I'd just expect a very good justification for it. FFXIII was undeniably a flawed game in some respects, obviously those flaws really pissed the Edge reviewer off and he attacked them. If somebody found similar flaws in SMG (say the voice acting and the plot) and attacked them then good for them - I wouldn't agree but I would be able to tell that those things wouldn't worry me by reading the review.