Kasz216 said:
The truth is... different critics have different standards. The only mistake IGN has made is not having all 3 versions of the same game reviewed by the same person. 1. It's reviewed by the same person. 2. It's reviewed by two people with almost exactly the same tatse and biases (almost impossible.) 3. You compile a giant database of reveiws and get the aggerigate number knowing that as the number of reviews increase the bias is likely to get filtered out. So basically unless you use a site like Gamerankings or Metacritic, you can really only use a critic's review of a game as their opinion... so you just need to find which critics you agree with and go with their opinion. Not only are some people harder to please, some people have different standards. Pesentation 10% of the score Graphics 5% of the score Sound 5% of the score Gameplay 60% of the Score Lasting Appeal 30% of the score. Or something close to that. With room for negatives if the graphics and sound are just downright horrible. |
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By the way not sure if people truly noticed but they gave gameplay and lasting appeal higher which is way you get the .7 difference as those are two are weighted pretty heavily in their equation. In the end is just preference so could just be IGN figures you would rather play a prettier version with achievement points.