Twilight Princess is a straight-up Gamecube game ported to the Wii and that was likely taken into consideration when giving it an 8.5 though. It probably would be lower if it was a ground-up Wii game.

Both of those pics are INGAME.  There is no trickery at all in either picture. 

I agree with tasty.  If the Wii is just a GC, then comparing only to other Wii games is fair, but I think some people want to see a bigger leap in graphics than what's being shown on Wii so far. 

That's certainly true, but does that mean Fighters get an automatic deduction just because of the genre? That's not very fair. Here's another one:

They gave the top game a 9.5, and the bottom game an 8.5 in graphics? I feel like I must be taking crazzy pills or something. Why am I the only one who sees major issues with their complete lack of standardization?

That is in-game Windbane.  Everything on the Dojo is in game.  I can give you dozens of other pictures of Link in that same quality. 

Oh, ok, so when you play Brawl all you see is Link.  Gotcha.

 How about showing a screenshot of gameplay, then.

Mr. Ignorant, when you pause Brawl you get free rotation and focus of the camera. In other words, it's incredibly simple to pause Brawl and take a screen of anything, including just Link.

Alright, but I just want to see an actual gameplay screen versus an actual gameplay screen.  Screenshots of gameplay.

Btw, Samus is brighter but not better looking, imo. 

When zoomed in on Link, the game looks WORSE, so I don't understand why you care that it's just a zoomed in pic. It's just showing off the details that exist.

*sigh*

I've seen gameplay vids and they do not look like that.  Granted, those were on TV, so if you have screenshots of when the actual game is being played, that would be nice. 

Btw, I love how they gave the game a 9.5 but you guys are annoyed that they gave the graphics a lower score than you want.  How about you play the game before you judge?  On second thought, that probably wouldn't make a difference...