| jhuff394 said: 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.
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Lol, i though IGN and Gamespot were just brown nosers, i had no idea they were paid. on a side note these guys heavily criticised FF13 for having a linear structure (i'm not here to debate that). but imo GTA4 had a more linear structure.
i mean even though its sandbox, you follow a bunch of straight lines (GPS) to point A (misson), you follow another set of straight lines to point B (target), you kill target and you return to point A along a series of straight lines... or perhaps they spice it up by having you procede from point B to point C.
my point is that, almost every mission in the game was Point A to Point B to Point A/C. and thats why i felt it was far too repititive and tedious and boring, and BANAL. anyway this game deserved at best 8/10, but IGN and Gamespot awarded 10s without giving objective reviews. but this is a common thing happening this gen, its not just GTA, but them being paid makes sense.
