Grampy on 14 May 2008
Before you dismiss the score survey the web. Most of the low scores come from sites that didn't really test it out. Those that actually did a serious long term test were almost always surprised and very positive.
New and different things get lower scores because they don't fit into the reviewer's world view. Everytime I read a review of a Wii game that in about the second paragraph has something like "the Wiimote worked but I preferred playing the game using the classic controller", I quit reading because he doesn't get it and he never will. To get really fair reviews on something new I guess we have to wait for new reviewers.
