I think most games have some problems with motion but it's usually rare & not THAT big a deal.

I find reviewers make too big a deal of this & forget if they're actually having fun or not.

Why should anybody spend 50-60 bucks just to find out a game sucks??? IN what world should a person go buy Lair or Ninjabread man because he 'doesn't trust gaming site"???

Deadly Creatures will probably get below average score. De Blob probably get "Impressive" and Mushroom Man might get average.

I still buy this game no matter what and to be sure if the game is good or not. I've been fooled on Okami I'll never been fooled again.

And yeah, Carnival games sold well even with low score reviews so Wii gamers dont care about the reviews anyway...

Im from the Philippines so 50 bucks was too much for a videogame, and yeah, the price of the games here wasnt as expensive than on the states. And second, you could tell if the game was bad or not just by previews and actual gameplay not because of the reviewers tells you. You cant tell how bad Ninjabreadman by watching the videos and graphics alone? And yeah, Lair isnt bad not because of the controls its something else thats why I convinced myself not to trust videogame reviewers... from armake21 himself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYSFBx1gYuU

I'm not necessarily a huge IGN fan because I think they just don't like the motion control and always revert to traditional control given a chance BUT if you compare their score with the average of all other reviews they are actually very even handed on all consoles compared to Gamestop which is absurdly and obscenely biased.

I don't want to give exact numbers because the last time I dared suggest Gamestop's rag Game Informer was biased I had this guy all over my ass about sample size, statistical methods etc and frankly I've got better things to do with my time. But I was stupid enough to take the time to compare scores from 20 review sources (18 total because two sources reviewed less than 10 games) on a random selection of 36 Xbox 360 games on Metacritic that had a minimum of fifty reviewers each. Now I'm sure it's just a coincidence but somehow Game Informer just happened to be higher than the Metacritic average of all fifty+ reviewers 30 out of 33 times and on the whopping three games they were lower it was never by more than a few tenths. This put reviewers from whom I expect bias like the Official Xbox Magazine (US & UK) and Xbox Fanatic to shame as far as being 360 fanboys.

IGN, (and once again I'm sure it was only coincidence), IGN out of thirty two games (not all games are reviewed by the all sources) was dead on the Metacritic average three times and split the remaining 29 games 16 higher and 13 lower. In my naiveté, I was surprised and impressed.

Now I'm sure my method was simplistic, flawed pseudo statistics etc. (although after over 80 scientific articles published, you would think I'd have a clue) but personally to the extent I give a rat's ass about reviews, I'll get mine from IGN. Game Informer would line the bottom of the bird cage ... if I had a bird. Hell I may buy a bird just so it can crap on Game Informer.

In fairness, and once again I'm sure it was total crap statically etc etc. the Game Stop website is somewhat better although hardly what I'd call impartial.

Yeah, I took a quick gander at the strange score distribution, then scrolled up to see who wrote it. Daemon is the worst reviewer there, and it's my pet suspicion that he was brought in to make Bozon look good. Any review written by him is worthless. I'll wait until more reliable information comes in before I decide to get this or not.

Twesterm's impressions are vastly more influential to me.

I don't think that's what IGN said. I'm pretty sure they said "Party" game of the year.

Anyways, that's pretty disappointing. It might still be worth a rent though.

We all know mediocre scores don't mean bad sales on the Wii. This game still has a chance at being successful.

There have been too many instances lately of games getting great previews and then terrible reviews.

yeah whatsw up with the prviews being so muvh better than reviews?