Reviewing Reviewers: Are Game Critics Fairer than Movie Critics?

[Chris Hu]

SnakeDrake said:

Chris Hu said:
I think that game reviewers are fairer because they have to spend a pretty good time with the game and actually beat it where as movie reviewers only have to watch a movie once before they can review it.

However there is the fact that many reviewers will play the games on the easiest setting and a lot of them admitted to playing games with a fixed timeline (not saying that a review needs to do everything in a game ) that can affect the reviewers mood thus affecting the games score. I remember that fat guy at ign gave Yukaza 4 a 6 and he was sick at the time but he had a deadline and so was forced to play and complete the game on speed run.

Good point but even if you beat a game on easy you invest more time with it then if you only watch a movie once.  Also a lot of times game reviewers get a copy of a game that is not all the way complete.  Movie reviewers pretty much always review the final (complete) version of a film.