Would people really rest their purchase on a big green or red banner from Kotaku?

Oh it's a big green yes so I'll go buy it ...

Kotaku.

"our writers should have the flexibility to review those games"

"we will have one of three answers: YES / NOT YET / NO"

Doesnt seem like flexibility to me.

Ya they should have

Yes if you like _______

No if you don't like _________

I think the IGN one is pretty good. They give a score for Gameplay, sound, graphics, story, replayability, content and such. I may not be accurate but something like that. 

It's not bad. I personally don't really like assigning scores to video games, because that's how most lazy people judge them nowadays. Today professional critics are inflating reviews for far too many reasons. It also feels as if that we have evolved from a 1/10 grading scale into a 9-10 system because well everything below that is a piece of shit, right? I wish reviewers would go back to the process of reviewing every aspect rather than giving an inflated score based off of enjoyment alone.

Kotaku does it well. They give out their likes, and dislikes. While posting if they feel we should personally buy it.