IGN is just simple when it comes to ratings. They give their honest review and they are pretty acurate, seeing as when a review of theirs is good, the game really is good.

Then you go to Gamespot and see theyrate Xbox 360 games higher, an example: Halo.

I love my Xbox, sure, but a game like Halo 3 doesn't desserve a 9.5. Its commonplace to see a shooter (FPS or 3rd person) get reviews of 9.0 and above when it is headed to the 360. When this happens on the Wii, for example, they tend to look at the bad side.

So, to sum up on a simpler note, not only was the Gerstmann incident a proof of their faultyness in game rating as a serious matter, but also, they tend to be rating games like Halo and Gears 9.0+ just because, and give games like Metroid Primer Corruption a 8.5.

It's just my point of view.

 Wait why did you stop trusting them for giving two games great scores?

Not that scores say anything for me but it seems odd. 

I lost ALL faith in gamestop's reviews after Conan got the same score of Ratchet and Clank Futures xD. I'm sorry, those games are universes apart in terms of quality.

i remember the dreamcast days.

gamespot slammed most of the titles while ign gave these really inflated reviews. the correct answer was almost always right in the middle.

So you agree that WarioWare > Twilight Princess?

And GameSpot is the ONLY major site that rated TP below a 9 on GR. 

QFT 

 I haven't been to gamespot.com ever since the Ratchet review. Don't miss that crappy website at all. Life is better without GameSpot distress.

Go to gamerankings and metacritic to see reviews. Notice which review sites typically hit the average review score closely. You'll notice one of the most consistent to hit the average review is IGN and Gamespot hits it much less frequently. I've always had a sour taste in my mouth about Gamespot since 1998 when they gave Metal Gear Solid an 8.5. What a blunder that was. Just to let you now, they also rated it the greatest PSOne game of all time, a game they reviewed an 8.5.

I have a hard time believing that guy from GS got fired because in his review, he said the same thing everyone else said in their review, kane and lynch sucks, the end.

He didn't get fired because he agreed with everyone else.

He got fired because he agreed with everyone else about the shittiness of a game that was raking in huge ad dollars for the company he worked for.  In short he had journalistic integrity and everyone knows that $$>journalistic integrity....pfft..

I distrusted GS long before the Gerstmann incident, but that was the doom-hammer for my traffic there for sure.
It may sound like no one would care that I left, but I saw thousands of accounts disappearing after this! Not good at all for GS but very well deserved.