Panama on 20 June 2012
The rating system is simply different, nothing to do with leniency. Jim Sterling seems to the only one who applies a film critic perspective to his reviews in that he never seems to imply that games he give 3 or 4/10 should be avoided at all costs. Whereas if a game gets a 5 from the likes of IGN or Gamespot I imagine most gamer's wouldn't touch it. Can't articulate myself as well I would like tonight but essentially game reviews and film reviews are deceptive in that they may appear to be functionally equivalent, whereas the reality is quite the opposite.
