its not random website hate. late me just take gamespot for example.

Mario Galaxy- 9.5 - great.

Twilight Princess- 8.8 - uhh...

Metroid Prime 3 - 8.5 - uhhhh....

Mario Kart Wii- 8.5 - ok, this is ridiculous

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn - 6.0 - ok, wtf?

Wario Land: Shake it- 7.5 - ....

I have to leave soon, but I'm going to make a thread with this later... but let me just say this.

If TP, MP3, MKWii, etc etc were on any other console, they would get higher ratings. Its biased. You can't tell me that Bioshock was better than TP, MP3 or MKWii, cause it wasn't. You can't tell me GTAIV was one of the most amazing games ever and was a 10/10, cause it wasn't. Fire Emblem, they gave that a 6, and they gave the one before than at 8.5. I find it funny because every Fire Emblem fan thought that game was better in every single aspect, as did I, and should of ATLEAST got a 9.0/10.0

I was referring to similarities in the way they score games, not the scores they give to games. Besides, 1UP uses a letter system because they'd like to avoid the confusing number system.

By the way, for anyone saying that standards for review scores have dropped, the Playstation 2 alone has 46 games with a score over 90% on Gamerankings (what a mouthful). Of course, the PS2 is an amazing console with amazing games, but that doesn't sound like the games were put under a ridiculously high criteria (especially because several of these 90+ games were sports games.

I say this every time... people have overlooked Web of Shadows so much, it's badass on all 3 major platforms, the reviewers giving it a bad rap is full of themselves, it's got amazing combat, awesome open world, and some of the best comic book to video game writing ever.

Also yes I have to agree with Zucas it's pretty sad to have 6s and 7s be the "average" game when it should be 5's. I also agree with Phoenix on the overrated PS360 titles, it's insane how bad they can be and still get 8s while gems like web of shadows gets 5s... It's also insane to me that people compare Wii versions to PS3 and 360 versions which they look at the graphics and usually go "this looks bad" and it's like an automatic point lower... which if you were to compare the PS360 to Wii versions then well you'd have to compare controls on PS3 and 360 to the Wii remote... and on CoD WaW Wii just obliterates the PS360 controls, if you want the content get the PC version if you don't have a good PC get the Wii version end of story.

lol, another thing thats SOOOO wtf to me. there are only 3 games on metacritic for DS rated 90+

ya, okay, gtfo. the DS has had some really amazing games and theres only 3 rated higher than 90?
games like the phoenix wright series deserve to be all in the 9 range, yet they're in like the 7 range. honestly, what the hell? it's almost as if a reviewer doesn't like the genre, he or she will automatically give it a lower score. wait, did i say almost as if? i meant to say that's how it actually is. biaseddd.

*eye twitch* I got the crap beat out of me... by many many things... and by the time the city is overrun... you get those things that will gang the crap out of you... though the AI might be different between the 360 and Wii version but my friend played the 360 version while I played Wii and we both loved it and when he started talking about how the 360 game had all this stuff I was like yeah the Wii has that too and he didn't believe me.  And I don't know where you get the "lack of story" deal from... I mean it was a little slow in the beginning but it picked up a lot... did you beat the game?

This thread needs more Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World.

alot of PS360 games gets special tretaments just beacuse they have "pretty" graphics.

reviewers often ingnore all the problems... just look at GTA IV..shudders.

Unlike Wii, were they totaly destroy the game for having some minor problems.

Considering the way that non-PS360PC games are rated nowadays, some of those won't be the first - nor the last - Wii games to receive a review score in the "7.X" range" that I buy and probably enjoy.

@Savior

I can't seem to find monster lab... I'm certain however that the rest of those games I really don't like.... however I am enjoying Wii Music... I have this odd feeling that it isn't supposed to be a game, it would be much better suited being a channel on the Wii... built in on purchase?

Maybe it's time Nintendo packaged Wii Music with Wii's?

It feels more in tuned with what the Wii is meant to do than Wii Sports.

why the hell is everyone still taking reviews so seriously??? geez let's not use that as a point of argument ever again please.