HappySqurriel on 09 March 2008
I generally look at Gamerankings or Metacritic for an overall score, then I factor in the genre and hype for a game and if I'm still interested (and not sold on the game yet) I will read a couple of reviews to find out what the strenghts and weaknesses are of the game.
The reason hype is so important is that a highly hyped game tends to have a (somewhat) higher score than a game which received far less hype; and the reason why genre is so important is some genres (like FPS) tend to be over-rated, while other genres (like party games) tend to be under rated, so the same average score (70%) might mean one game is bad and another game is pretty good.
