Top 10 games on Metacritic this gen, do you agree?

[mike_intellivision]

For the sake of argument, here is a similar list from GameRankings.
There are 16 "releases" this generation with a score which would round up to 95 or better.

One difference is that Gamerankings does not lump multi-platform releases into a single category. As a result, there are 3 Wii, 5 PS3, 6 X360, and 2 PC releases listed.

Essentially though, it is the same list since the two scoring aggregation sites use the same basic process.

WII Super Mario Galaxy; Nintendo, 2007; 97.46%; 77 Reviews
WII Super Mario Galaxy 2; Nintendo EAD Tokyo /Nintendo, 2010; 97.12%; 54 Reviews
PS3 Grand Theft Auto IV; Rockstar North/Rockstar Games, 2008; 97.05%; 61 Reviews
PS3 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves; Naughty Dog/SCEA, 2009; 96.46%; 79 Reviews
X360 The Orange Box; Valve Software/EA Games, 2007; 96.26%; 58 Reviews
X360 Grand Theft Auto IV; Rockstar North/Rockstar Games, 2008; 96.22%; 84 Reviews
PS3 Batman: Arkham City; Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, 2011; 95.94%; 33 Reviews
PC The Orange Box; Valve Software/EA Games, 2007; 95.82%; 31 Reviews
X360 Mass Effect 2; BioWare/Electronic Arts, 2010; 95.66%; 73 Reviews
X360 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim; Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks, 2011; 95.22%; 73 Reviews
PC Portal 2; Valve Software, 2011; 95.03%; 37 Reviews
X360 BioShock; Irrational Games/2K Games, 2007; 94.95%; 98 Reviews
PS3 LittleBigPlanet; Media Molecule/SCEA, 2008; 94.74%; 78 Reviews
PS3 Red Dead Redemption; Rockstar San Diego/Rockstar Games, 2010; 94.67%; 51 Reviews
X360 Portal 2; Valve Software, 2011 94.54%; 46 Reviews
WII The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess; Nintendo, 2006 94.51%; 83 Reviews


As for the lists ... these are among the games that defined this generation -- so it is a pretty good list. One could quibble with some things (ranging from pop-ups in GTA IV to lack of story in SMG2) but it would be academic.

Mike from Morgantown