I believe the sole reason Metacritic is the one used is because of the huge argument over Starcraft's sig. At least that was my assumption. Personally I find Gamerankings more useful.

If I were to use review scores I would go with them as well.

Letter Grades
Their Grade Converts To
A or A+ 100
A- 91
B+ 83
B 75
B- 67
C+ 58
C 50
C- 42
D+ 33
D 25
D- 16
F+ 8
F or F- 0

I wish school was like that....

Euphoria gamerankings isn't much better - read the sig.

Quick correction on this point.....Variety actually gave that score to Metacritic, to put with the review.

This is the note that metacritic attached to that particular review (I guess many LBP fans complained!):
[*Note: All Variety scores are provided to Metacritic by Variety's Games Editor - Metacritic is not estimating here or on any other game review.]

That just tells me the guy who reviewed it didn't give the score but his boss who probablly never touched the game told metacritic what his employee felt.

Also worth mentioning is before the claimed the score was provided by Variety Games editor they stated that they gave that score based on what they got from reading the review. Then shortly after they changed it.

Thats a great idea they could show them on the sight but for the score exclude them.

Metacritic doesn't go by hard numbers. That's why you can use an exact measure. You have to read up on their system.

Metacritic system overall is good cause you get to look through 40+ reviews gives you a good flavor of what the game is about