A single review is the opinion of one elite gamer, who hopefully (though rarely) holds the game to some kind of standard rather than allow personal biases to run unchecked.
Even if you take a big swath of such reviews and average them, you still get a bunch of opinions from elite gamers, who represent only a fraction of the market, most of whom aren't trying to use objective standards in their reviews.
Such opinions are useful information, but try to keep the limitations of that information in mind when weighing your evidence to make a decision.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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