Gamespot and IGN both admit they were paid to give it a ten.. (and every other site follows them)
They apologized a while back for this.
Notice how Red dead is a 9.5 and 9.75 though it is leagues better than gta 4 was.
“Absolutely, we can do much more with it. I don’t know if we are even close to 50 percent of PlayStation 3’s power at this point,” said Asmussen about God of War 3. ARE YOU KIDDING ME???