i still remember when on metacritic xbox fanboys voted down resistance and in return ps fan boys voted down halo, it was all very silly and totally unnecessary.

I meant  this as a general comment. I really think that it is silly to rate a game from a demo or from a couple of minutes of play. For example, after an initial look at inFamous I thought it was horribly looking, but once you get into the game there is a lot to love.

blatantly haters of sony and/or quantic dream

What about all the fanboys that rate it 10 without playing it, just because it's on their favorite system? It goes both ways it just comes down to who's more persistent, the people that love it or the haters.

death to heavy rain
halo forever

User scores are bullshit. People either rate something a 10 if they like it or a 0 if they don't.

I wouldn't trust any score on pretty much any site now, sadly. Too many idiots simply vote to express an opinion and an uninformed and biased one at that. Probably half the votes for a title like Gears 2 are PS3 fanfolk voting it down and it's probably the same for big PS3 titles, too.

I might look at the odd individual vote, but really, when you see the red 0 and 1 you know all you need to know, that the vote is irrelevant and either by someone without the wit to understand what they think they're voting on or a deliberate Troller voting something down.

Sadly, for a long time on the internet the trend has been to learn what to trust and what not to trust, and sadly the list of things not to trust grows a lot larger and faster than the other.

When a user score average is that far below the critic's average, it's a given that fanboys are purposely tanking the score of game. It's sad and pathetic. If they enjoyed their console of choice as much as they'd claim, they'd be playing games on it instead of getting on the internet and spending their time sabotaging the user review score of another consoles exclusive game.

It will be great to see the user score of God of war 3.

What I find amusing about the reviews and general feeling around Heavy Rain is that people aren't giving the game a lot of slack. It seems that even the smallest faults in it are leading to lower scores, on the other hand more "traditional" (read into that what you will) games for example Mass Effect 2 and certainly GTA IV when it came out recently received resounding 10's despite some reviewers noting significant flaws.

Going back to the point though, the user score on meta critic is definitely fanboy influenced, especially considering the game isn't even out yet (in the UK anyway) as far as I was aware...I would have bought it if it was!