| kowenicki said:
You cant pick and choose and really it doesnt matter that some reviews are lower than expected. Just get the game and be happy. There is no conspiracy, its all becoming a bit paranoid. They throw high scores around... Forza 3: 10/10 |
It's not a conspiracy but the state of video game journalism can be considerred a joke at best. For an industry that's trying to grow out of the sterotypes of society, the industry journalists are doing a piss poor job. The early reviews (both good and bad) obviously haven't had a significant amount of time to test all the features appropriately, especially when the online mode was only recently unlocked. It destroys credibility.
When a film is reviewed you expect the reviewer to watch the entirety of the film before passing judgement. This may not be possible with games, but they need to test all the features of a game for a significant amount of time.
GT5 isn't the only game to suffer from this. I've read dev complaints about reviews that didn't even touch on co-op & multiplayer modes and one review for FFVII: Crisis core that was included in metacritic played the game for barely more than an hour and with no sound before passing judgement.
