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ultima on 15 December 2010
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CGI-Quality said:
ultima said:

@ everyone who claims the score's lower because of expectations: are you telling me the reviewers don't have an absolute scale? How about Halo 3? That game was hyped to death, yet it still received a 94. If what you say is true, then this system is redundant. The whole point of scores is to give a person a quick idea on how a certain game stacks up against a different game.

Halo 3 didn't have the hype nor expectations of GT5 though, at least not in regard to cosmetics. "Better than reality" is just one of several slogans of the pre-release GT5 era. Halo 3 had nothing of the sort, but did have MUCH hype.

So you're telling me reviewers thought it was a minus that the game wasn't photo-realistic?

Where I think things were unfair, Halo 3 was considered average visually, but accomplished what it set out to do - be a definitive shooter for the Xbox brand while brandishing an unrivaled multiplayer experience. In that regard, it wasn't marked down.

But all of the promotional CGIs for Halo 3 looked amazing and had little to no resemblance to the in-game graphics. So, unless you're telling me graphics were supposed to be the main selling points of GT5, I still see a problem.

GT5 set out to be the top sim on consoles. According to reviews, it not only achieved that, but looks better than other games in the genre (albeit, not without some inconsistencies). So why would GT5 be marked down so significantly? Simple, the hype exceeded what the final product delivered to some.

But I was let down in many aspects by the game (mainly damage and graphics), but I am still able to see that the game deserves higher than 84 if you compare it to Forza 3.

In this day and age, hype and expectation DO play a role in many reviews. GT5's hype is unprecedented however, and because of such, it was expected to be a perfect delivery, not to mention, it's a different market than when Halo 3 launched.

And that, in my opinion is a huge problem. How am I supposed to know which is more worthy of my money if the comparison of the aggregate review score is not consistent with the comparison in the quality of each game. I really think (or maybe hope?) this is not the case.