Game site reviewers are N00bs who write game reviews.

[rocketpig]

mike_intellivision said:

rasone77 said:

Everstar said:
I think Gamerinformer is pertty good

RocketPig Said:

Some of GameInformer's written reviews aren't bad but when it comes to scoring, I've found that if I subtract half a point, it's usually dead on to what I would give the game. They, like most other big publications or sites, inflate their scores quite a bit.

As long as the platform they are reviewing isn't the Wii I like their reviews. It seems that every Wii game they review gets a point to a point and a half less than other reviews mags/sites.

I in particular was a little pissed at the 6.75 score for Medal of Honor Heros 2, the 6 for No More Heros,. and the 6 for Endless Ocean. It seems they hate motion controls (and my theory is) because they don't know how to use them properly.

I want to echo this about Gameinformer. It appears that its reviewers generally do not like the Wii.

Last year, more than half their staff did not list SMG in their top 10 games of the year. As I have said previously in many other posts, I am not such a person who thinks that it must be Game of the Year. But since it was listed as such by roughly half the magazines -- for reviewers not to acknowledge it speaks to their bias.

(I will note though that two multiplatform games -- PES2008 and another title I cannot remember -- received higher scores for the Wii in separate mini-reviews apart from the main Xbox 360/PS3 review (about the size of the second opinion).

Mike from Morgantown

 

Game Informer addressed this "issue". They said that many of their editors simply didn't get a chance to play the game before the ballots were due. Kinda cheesy but given the crazy release schedule of November 2007, it's perfectly understandable. We had Uncharted, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Orange Box, and a few more games I'm surely forgetting release that month.