EDGE New Batch of Reviews (inFAMOUS 2, LA Noire, Witcher 2, Brink, Dirt 3)

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Acevil said:

CGI-Quality said:

Boutros said:
Why do you guys say 6 is good?

Here's the summary of the review:

The game's second half descends into a fiasco...One thing's for certain: if there's a great action game in Infamous 2, no one's actually built it yet.

It looks to me like a 6 isn't good.

Because their "6" is apparently considered good. Can anyone confirm?

I will use lets say IGN or lets say Gamespot. They have 10 point system were generally 7.5 is considered the average point. This is generally the norm in gaming. 

While Edge uses 5 as the average point similar to movie reviewers or book reviewers.
So if you were to do it aligned 5=7.5, 6=8.0, 7=8.5, 8=9, 9=9.5, 10=10. 

Given people should always see the content, not the score. 

I wouldn't go along with that. Gamespot: inFamous 2 - 7.5, Brink - 6. Edge 6 for both. I think there's more like a 1pt adustment between Edge and everyone else. So for Edge a 5 = 6 for most other review sites. Edge doesn't do half scores,which really means Edge scores cover a rage for sites that do half scores so an Edge 5 is like a 5.5-6.5 for everyone else. The level of criticism I've seen in Edge reviews for games scoring below 7 pretty much means the game isn't all that good. So no way a 6 correlates to anything like an 8 IMO.

Just curious, what was their inFamous review like? I really like inFamous. I see inFamous 2 is getting a meta of 8.4 at the moment so it's kept up nicely by the look of things