The industry needs every kind of reviewer, lenient and harsh ones. In the end it pretty much all balances out. People just need to chill out when they freak out about one or two reviews.
I will say that the reviewer should like the genre of the game he is reviewing (and at the very least the CONSOLE he is reviewing, which hasn't always been the case this gen) or he shouldn't review it at all. This also means that he will be better able to compare it to other games in the genre and see how much better/worse it is than those games since he probably has more experience with it.
This isn't necessarily the case with the Eurogamer review people are bringing up since he may just not like MGS and may still like the stealth/action genre. If he doesn't like the genre than there is probably a conflict of interests.
It is probably better if the reviewer doesn't already vocally dislike a series before he reviews it, but in that case the same standard might have to be applied to those who are huge fans of a series, since they could be equally biased.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
