IGN being sponsored by Microsoft

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Captain_Tom said:

forevercloud3000 said:
I usually feel ok with IGN's reviews of PS games, yet I do notice how they more often than not OVERRATE Xbox stuff in comparison.

This kind of stuff makes that feeling even more validated. KZ Shadow Fall is brobably a solid 8 like they scored....But Killer Instinct(with only 7 characters and lacking modes) and Dead Rising(good but c'mon) being rated higher just seems....wrong. I expect Forza to get about a 9 which might just be appropriate.

I wouldn't say they are necessarilly MS biased, but it is clear to me that their Xbox reviewers are WAY bigger Halo/Gears fans than their Sony reviewers are Killzone/MAG/SOCOM fans.   It's crazy obvious when you see:

-EVERY Gears/Halo game get scored higher than a 9 no matter what the consensus is.

-Killzone games commented as "Master of First Person shooters" and "Raching the series full potential" and then it gets an 8...

-MAG gets a 7 for "Hard to use menus" and "Not able to choose the exact map I want to play"  (YOU MEAN LIKE EVERY CALL OF DUTY?!?!)

yea, I would say that is a good discription of how their reviews go.

Its just far easier for any given Xbox game to get an acclaimed score then it is for PS titles. I believe they even joke about it in the podcasts every so often, that they might have rated an exclusive just a tad too high after the hype died.