But such a small sample of reviews. It seems that PS4 is the leading platform for reviews as well, and that nobody is even touching last-gen versions with a ten foot pole...

That doesn't matter. They still count. Leading platform doesn't mean only platform.

Have you ever seen a big marketed ambitious ( in concept) game with a lower score than 80 ?

I trust more what i see and the players, game is good but has to much flaws, deserves more a 75.

Yeah I don't think i'll be picking this one up, maybe if I run out of games to play.

Yeah even from all the official trailers it was always clear that this will reach an 85 at maximum. They never showed anything special except for hacking, hacking and hacking which started to be boring after the third trailer.

Good game which nobody will talk about after few months.

Wow X1 version is 77 on the meta atm :O

This was my favourite user review:

This is the hipsters version of GTA5. Apparently this game was featured on the e3 2012 and every fedora sporting, Starbucks fanatic
is talking about it. Please, excuse me while I hang myself by my PS4 controller cord. Oh darn, it's wireless.
Gameplay - Not Bad ! sound really good, Graphics for next-gen really medicore, nothing special. ubisofts behavior is unacceptable,
900p or 1080p? It doesnt matter, its about Ubisofts behaviour(Lies).
1. They showed this game on a high end pc on the E3 said that this will be the first next gen title.
2.delayed it
3.lyed about the graphics(1080p 60fps), then the downgrade
90% of the budget in marketing 10% in the actual game. This game is really to short and the story is medicore.

All lovingly attached to a 0.

So it's a fun but fairly uninspired sandbox game. No wonder it got delayed, there was no way this could compete with GTAV.

Does anybody really read those user reviews for anything other than amusement? I usually enjoy laughing at grammar, and the most fun is to be had when a console exclusive launches :)

User reviews on Metacritic are almost always fanboy wars on hyped titles.