I stopped caring about Gamespot reviews after their review of Metroid Prime 3. The 8.5 is decent, but you'd never guess that score from reading the actual write-up which has always seemed to me to be a hit piece.
Really, I think they're pretty biased. Today, their first-page coverage of the April NPD report reads:
NPD: US game revs spike on GTAIV
Rockstar's latest sells 2.85M, pushing total industry growth in April to 47 percent.
While this is fine and true, the reactions on this forum say to me that this might not be the central story from the NPD release...
But in the article, they don't even get to hardware until paragraph 7, Wii's astonishing success until the following paragraph, and even then they write it up casually, and as an almost negative: However, the Wii kept up its momentum, slipping slightly to 714,000 units from 721,000.
Is it slipping slightly if there's one less week of sales in this month's NPD? Gamespot doesn't bother mentioning that. :)
ETA: On topic, I find My Life as a King to be a whole lot of fun. :D
