Are Game Reviewers unable to Review Wii Games?

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twesterm said:
I've never trusted game reviewers anyways. I generally wait for people I know to play them or at least hear from someone I trust on something like a forum.

I don't agree here. I certainly don't take reviewers as Gospel, but if a game gets near perfect scores everywhere I look, I can feel fairly safe that it will be pretty good; if a game gets sub 4.0 scores from most reviewers, it's safe to say that it's not so good. At least that was true, until the Wii. Some of the games getting mediocre reviews are actually quite good, and they're getting these lesser reviews for the same, consistent reasons: low end graphics and simplistic gameplay. Again, Wii Sports is the ultimate example of this: other than Zelda: Twilight Princess, I still cannot find a game from this generation that has a higher user rating on meta critic. Not Gears of War, not Elder Scrolls, not Resistance: Fall of Man, not Motorstorm. Nothing.


Also importantly, the disparity between the critical and user based scores for Wii Sports is 1.5 (out of 10): I can find a few games that have a disparity of 1.1 or 1.0, but nothing (thus far, in 30 minutes of scanning) with a larger disparity than that. This suggests that critics and end users are at a significant disconnect over the quality of this game.