If GTA4 isn't a 10/10 game, why did it get reviews like it did?

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hsrob said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:
I think it was a great game, that was so big it formed an anti-community of equal size. I guarantee you that there are tons and tons of gamers out there who still think GTAIV is the best game ever made.

I originally gave it a 9.5, because at the time there was really not much better than it out. Now, Fallout 3 is out, and a few other games, so I'd probably give it a 9.2. It's not a 10/10 imo, but it's within the margin for error.

Good post. I think a similar thing happened way back when Donkey Kong Country first came out, surrounded by an obscene amount of hype (for the time). 

When some people started to realise that the game wasn't necessarily the second coming, the backlash was nearly as big as the hype and much more vicious.  The people on the anti-hype train went about emphatically overstating the game's supposed shortcomings in order to 'prove' that the game wasn't worthy of the hype.  It may not have been, but it certainly wasn't worthy of the backlash.

Great analogy there. DKC was a great game though, imo, lol. Just got flamed due to overhype.