Obviously I'm exaggerating a little bit, but still I think it's a bit odd that Black ops 2 is pretty much identical on the 360 and Ps3, yet the xbox version has 53 reviews while the Ps3 version has only 7 reviews. I understand that critics such as Offcial Xbox or Official Playstation Magazines only review for that platform, but I mean, really....

In the end I'm a bit surprised that BLOPS2 has fallen to lower 80's. I've been hearing it's a pretty decent improvement over previous interations.

Care to explain teh madness???? 

i think this is an interesting dilemma. the game is reviewed on one console, do you give the score to all versions of the game? I vote if the versions are similar (usually PS3 and 360 are similar) then give them both the score

...but then again, does meta matter?

PS: the answer is no

Just look at the one with the most reviews, who cares if its PS3 or 360 when the game is available on both. For all I care they should rename it to "Multiplat" and have Official Xbox & PS3 under the same. It really doesnt matter for like 95% of the multiplats. Those 5% being horrible and I mean horrible, not like "its a bit blurry" or "frames are 3 less than X" PS3 or 360 ports.

A game could be worse on the PS3 yet have higher meta due to the lack of reviews. So getting caught up in the numbers like "Yeah the 360 is clearly a 85 where the PS3 is 87" is just laughable.

Most reviews come from USA reviewers. Most USA reviewers review the Xbox version. I don't think they should use one platform review for another.

But, I don't like Metacritic.

Meta has a "new" policy about that. They only include the score of the game on the platform that it was reviewed on.

With regard to the reviews. The changes to the way the campaign is played out are fantastic and really promotes multiple playthroughs. Can't quite comment on Zombies but the Multiplayer is just more CoD, maps are either hit or miss like every other CoD. The customization to the guns and your custom classes are very nice this time through and scorestreaks promote doing the actual objectives instead of camping, unless of course you're playing TDM.

I guess it's either franchise or genre exhaustion. Saw a few critics claiming military shooters have run their course, but considering the heavy changes they did to the campaign and their ability to manage to keep MP mildly fresh is impressive. If MW4 next year is just a rehash of MW3 but gets better reviews, I'll put on my tinfoil hat and proclaim that critics just love to hate Treyarch CoD games.

The review websites and publications are sent the xbox 360 version majority of the times. Only time they get ps3 version of the game more is when it is a fighting game.

That's good to know thanks. I just think it's a bit silly. Especially when most multiplats on 360 and Ps3 are identical. There are some exepctions (skyrim, damn you bethesda)

You guys and your misplaced metacritic animosity. Do you blame a piece of paper for the words that are written on it?

Blops 2 has a lot of issues on PS3 and many users have been complaining that reviewers didn't do their job by noticing and informing ahead of their purchase :

http://www.product-reviews.net/2012/11/17/black-ops-2-double-xp-starts-ps3-issues-persist/

it affects all game modes but not necessarily all machines (PS3 freezes repeatedly and online fails dramatically)

My guess is that many reviewers are waiting for a patch before giving a definitive verdict.