The scores are still way too high. I find it best to subtract 2 (or 20 if out of 100) points from most games, and you will get much closer to the score that many games actually deserve. A general trend seems to be that European based review sites/mags tend to give lower scores on average which is a high point in their favor. Trash mags like Gameinformer are part of the reason why video games are still rated much higher on average than they actually deserve ... giving virtually everything at least a 7 which is above average even though many of the games that receive this score are actually more like a 5 making them average/borderline below average.
On top of this, there is also the matter of a standard that reviewers can rally behind. Games tend to not be judged on their originality/artistic value, but by some other standard like developer/series pedigree. One of my favorite recent examples of this was Gameinformer's scoring on Deus Ex Human Revolution (a game of big ideas and very few flaws) and Dead Island (a zombie sandbox game with not a single new idea added to either genre) both getting the same score of 8.5.
