It's not a reviewer's job to think about the tastes and preferences of the average gamer. They review a game according to their own tastes and opinions. But, when the DLC approach being taken for this game has got a lot of pre-launch media and gamer attention it would be a significant gap in a review for the reviewer to not voice their opinion on whether the DLC approach has significantly impacted on the value and depth of the out of the box experience.

Only one monster option, with all the other monster types being behind DLC paywalls seems to me like a major negative on the value and depth of a game being sold at full AAA price. To me that would warrant taking off a whole point for a review score, an 8 would become a 7, a 7 would become a 6. But if you can unlock those monsters via level progression without having to pay extra, then that's OK. I have no problem with giving people the option to play for extras (the long route) or pay for extras (the short route). It's only when the choice is pay for extras or miss out that there is a real problem with a game being released with overly constrained day 1 content.

Interesting to see the PS4 version of Evolve plummet while the Xb one version holds up fairly well. Wouldn't be surprised to see the Xb one version wind up ahead on NPD / VGC.