Latest Edge reviews(Brawl and GoW included)

[Onyxmeth]

ZenfoldorVGI said:

Riot Of The Blood said:
Those scores are actually realistic.

I'm glad to see that some reviewers still have high expectations.

I don't think Edge scores in .5's and I don't think they give 10's(not sure), so 9 is almost a perfect score. Not many games score a 9, lol.

 

So, basically, if you examine it, Edge did just what you flamed other sites for doing with Brawl, which is giving it the highest accolades it can muster. :P

 

@supermario128

I think that 9 is the highest score edge hands out, and I don't think they score with any .5's, nor do they give out 10's as far as I know. Might wanna wikipedia it.

Here's straight from the Wikipedia page:

 

It was almost three years before Edge gave a game a rating of "ten-out-of-ten". This score was previously defined as "revolutionary", with the other ratings having similar labels. However, with issue 143 the scoring system was changed to a simple list of "10 = ten, 9 = nine..." and so on, a tongue-in-cheek reference to people who read too much into review scores.^[11]

The magazine has only awarded this score to eight games:^[12]

• Super Mario 64, Nintendo 64 (E35)
• Gran Turismo, Sony PlayStation (E55)
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Nintendo 64 (E66)
• Halo: Combat Evolved, Microsoft Xbox (E105)
• Half-Life 2, Windows PC (E143)
• Halo 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, (E181)
• The Orange Box, Windows PC, Xbox 360, Playstation 3 (E182)
• Super Mario Galaxy, Wii (E183)

In contrast, only one title has received a one-out-of-ten rating, Kabuki Warriors.

[edit] Posthumous awards

In December 2002, Edge awarded "posthumous" ten-out-of-ten ratings to the following titles:

• Elite (originally released in 1984)
• Exile (originally released in 1988)
• Super Mario Bros (originally released in 1985)

In Edge's 10th anniversary issue in 2003, GoldenEye 007 (1997) was included as one of the magazine's top ten shooters, along with a note that it was "the only other game" that should have received a "ten out of ten" rating. The game had originally been awarded a "nine out of ten", with the magazine later stating that "a ten was considered, but eventually rejected".

Resident Evil 4, which came second in Edge Presents The 100 Best Videogames, originally obtained a nine, but according to the 100 Best Videogames issue, it came "as near as dammit to the sixth (at the time) Edge ten".