Your from UAE? You know Heavy Rain was ban there. It means that your friend imported it and received it the same day, and you had enough time to tried it. Can you show me how to make my own teleporter too?

Did your PS3 suffer a temporary YLOD?

In my opinion, they rated inFamous too high, and this too low. That said, it's all in the play experience.... I have found some of Heavy Rain's graphics really off-putting, since you'll see amazingly detailed stuff and completely bland polygons on screen at once (Ethan tucking in Sean.... what was that, an 8-bit blanket? Or had the boy cut strange angles into the top?). Other games with minor graphical pop-up or anti-aliasing here or there you might overlook, but when you can see the pores on someone's face, then the edge of their door looks like a serated knife while it's moving, it is jarring. The game also froze during load screens twice for me... The voice acting is similar, where some performances are top notch, and some (the children especially) are horrible to the point of distraction, all the worse for being in the same scene with the better actors... despite this, I sunk hours into it today, found it incredibly engaging and enjoyable. I'd give it an eight out of ten.

inFamous, on the other hand, I have never been able to play for more than 15 minutes without it glitching or crashing, I found it repetitive and derivative (generic hero with a couple powers from Force Unleashed dropped into one of the Spider-Man movie games), and when the "big reveal" was spoiled for me, I have to admit I thought it was one of the stupidest stories I've ever heard for a game. My wife, however, never once had an issue with the game that didn't immediately rectify itself (she was dragged cross town by a car she inexplicably tried to cover behind... or rather, Cole did.... and she had some enemies get caught in the environment. Compare this to me falling through a building or getting stuck in teh sidewalk, or suddenly having all the police shoot at me because I saved one of them....) Our scores for the game would differ drastically.

If they looked at Heavy Rain as just an interactive animated movie, then the lack of polish in the acting, the "uncanny divide" that makes some scenes so off-putting, and the stiff animation (the way Ethan walks or page "cleans her face" look especially broken when performed by something so freakishly lifelike) would really hurt the score just like they would if this had been a theatrical release. 4 out of 10 seems REALLY harsh, but it's not indefensible any more so than their other scores.

The same reason you cant ignore the thread where people want to talk about it.

For as much as you go on about opinions youre quick to take the time to enter a thread you seem to not care about and argue with people interested in the topic and trying to express their OPINIONS on it rather than just letting the thread door hit your ass on the way out and letting people discuss the topic at hand without having to explain to you why they want to.

Now, on topic. That said as has been pointed out already this is, what, 30 points lower than any review theyve done in the past? They must have hated it but they dont have a history of doing anything crazy so it must just have not done anything for them.

Maybe the reviewer wants to play a videogame and not watch a movie and every once in awhile push a button.

Couple things:

-Yes, the median is a better indicator of central tendency, as it is not effected by outliers.  Agree 100%

-Wasn't Bayonetta on PS3 a broken port?  That would seem a case of bad sampling if the median was so high...  unless I missed something.

-I think that the only place the median vs mean makes a real difference is when you're arguing whether something is a "AAA" game or not.  Unfortunately, Heavy Rain, while a great game, really ISN'T a AAA (for a movie style game, the plot is too ham-fisted at time, and some of the voice acting is horrible while some is superb....  it's too extreme one way or another to be that top notch), so that .2 is just and fair in this case.

Teletext are consistently below the average, sometimes significantly, with PS3 exclusives:

Uncharted 2 ---- 90 vs. 96 Meta
LittleBigPlanet ---- 90 vs. 95 Meta
MGS4 ---- 80 vs. 94 Meta
Killzone 2 ---- 70 vs. 91 Meta
Wipeout HD Fury ---- 80 vs. 89 Meta
Ninja Gaiden Sigma ---- 80 vs. 88 Meta
Heavy Rain ---- 40 vs. 88 Meta
Resistance 2 ---- 70 vs. 87 Meta
Flower ---- 70 vs. 87 Meta
Crack in Time ---- 70 vs. 87 Meta
Pixeljunk Shooter ---- 80 vs. 86 Meta
Valkyria Chronicles ---- 80 vs. 86 Meta
inFamous ---- 70 vs. 85 Meta
Fat Princess ---- 60 vs. 79 Meta
MAG ---- 70 vs. 76 Meta
EyePet ---- 60 vs. 70 Meta
Socom: Confrontation ---- 40 vs. 63 Meta

They've never given a 10/10 to a PS3 exclusive either.

The only games he scored higher than average are Disgaea 3 (80 vs. 78 Meta) and Noby Noby Boy (80 vs. 75 Meta).

Demon's Souls holds an 89 Meta and Teletext did review it, but it wasn't the normal reviewer and the guy in his place forgot to give it a score lol.

tsk, tsk. someone didnt play the demo or didnt play the demo correctly and spent 12 seconds at the crime scene.

^^OR maybe the reviewer didn't find guns,terrorist and shooting in the game which they were expecting....

QFT

Also, Heavy Rain is the best western made game I have played in years.....