jlauro on 25 June 2008
You proved what most people with common sense already know, that metacritic scores are generally better than individual review scores. So that's 95 (PS3 MGS4) compared to 59 (360 ALITD).
You stated that ALITD should be no lower than a 6. Metacritic has it at 5.9 which is very close to a 6, so you proven that metacritic works.
Generally IGN is not so far off from center as they are in this case, but it does show that not even IGN can get it right every time. So you proven that metacritic is better than an individual review. However, guess what... metacritic is made of a composite of review scores. So you proven that review scores are not meaningless, as metacritic wouldn't be possible without them!
