well the game will change if you fully play it and not just give your opinion after the first few hours

no they took IGN UK's score

look at who the reviwer is,its from IGN UK's Martin Robinson

if it was IGN Original then Greg Miller would have done it

yes NFS is more of fun but it is no arcade racer,it feels like it but it tries to be a simulator

and just saying other media liked it so its true doesn't just prove the point,meaning alot of something doesn't make it good

most are nitpicking and stuff

I agree.. if you cant rewind or kill zombies, its no good.

The thing is, GT5 always aimed to be just this, a realistic depiction of the racing world. Probably it's still far from being actually real, but it's as close as it gets, and for all that it's worth, GT5 was always mentioned for that. 

I'm not saying everyone should enjoy it, it isn't a game for everyone, but I think gamers shouldn't look for things in a game which weren't there from the get go and were never promised as well. GT5 is a game for racing fans and car nuts, it's the GT legacy and each new iteration delves further into it. After more than 10 years, I don't know why people are expecting for it to transform into something that it is not.

That's like asking a Zelda game to stop being an adventure game and become an JRPG, FIFA or PES to become a football manager or Call of Duty/Halo to become a Counter Strike type of game. Things are what they are and should be evaluated for so.

no it isn't the first they did it for another game that just released

IGN original took IGN UK's GT5 review

Martin Robinson is from IGN UK

Certain reviewers giving games low scores specifically to grab attention on metacritic are nothing special. It happens all the time with exclusives. Don't think that this case with GT5 is anything special. In fact, there may be lower scores still to come, who knows, this may be a legitimate (albiet low) score. For example, gameshark gave Reach a 5/10 but that doesn't really bring down the average much since there are almsot a hundred reviews. The higher scores from "loyal" sites helps balance it out, (lets face it, these exist for both the 360 and the PS3). This case with GT5 is not special, PS3 fans are not being shortchanged.

Typical excuses to justify low scores (or unmet expectations):

Reviewers are teh baise!

Microsoft is paying everyone else off.

This game is the second (or even third!) coming. Don't heed the scores, game is perfect!.

I'm not sure if I agree with you that the game is just for fans and car nuts.

Well, probably the grand majority of the interviews Kazunori Yamauchi ever made during the development of GT5 stated that he wanted to create the perfect racing game, an authentic car encyclopedia experience. Surely those who would appreciate those aspects more are both racing fans and car nuts right, like Kazunori himself right?

GT games in the past have been critiziced for lacking the depth, be it in physics or car differences of an actual sim, and for the grand part that criticism was partly correct, and GT5 tried to correct that aspect. 

What I don't understand is why giving a better simulation experience is now considered not to be the best approach, not only amongst reviewers, but with a lot of gamers as well? 

Because there is more to making an entertaining experience than just making a realistic simulation, realism may be a detriment sometimes.

Creativity and realism are two different animals. You can have one without the other.

nah,

my point is not about the physics being perfect. It is just the best on console so far from most of the comment I have read on the web.

also, people judging the game by their expectation are just morons ...