The Purpose of Video Game Reviews

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kingofwale said:

A good review should started out explaning the game, then stating all the positive and then the negative, and then give you some kind of recommendation (either buy/rent or review score) 

So would you say you are of the opinion that reviews necessarily have to be summarized into simple representations like scores and recommendations?

 Edit:

 psrock: do you think that there is any way in which the review system itself might be improved?