I haven't played Bioshock yet (after I finish MP3 I'm buying it) but the one thing I can say which Metroid Prime both benefits from and is hurt by is the Zelda dungeon adventure elements of the game ... The formula is so well executed that I bet most of the reviewers finish the game and think that it is excellent yet feel like they have played similar games many times before hand

I have to agree, ive played a few zelda games, and i tried one of the first metroids, and i got the feeling that they were kinda the same type of game with adventure element, just different char, setting, and story. But they are still fantastic games, but if you are not a fain of this genre you most likely not enjoy a good portion of Nintendos best franchises

But i have not played the newest ones, so no one take me to serious

No, of course I don't think it deserves a 10.  I would give MP3 a 9.5.  It has a few glaring issues of it's own: There is a completely pointless fetchquest near the end of the game.  I just got to this and I have to say it was really unnecessary.  The enemies become practically undefeatable without the use of Hyper Mode near the end of the game.  While I think that was a purposeful design decision, it frustrates me, as in generaly I think Hyper Mode is a bit too much of a crutch.  

Those are my only issues so far.  I still have about 4 hours of gameplay left before I finish the game, but it doesn't deserve a 10, and neither does any game that you can find issues with.  Yes, it should be recognized, but anything over a 9 is enough to recognize the game as oustanding.  10s are thrown around like candy these days.  That frustrates me.

Again i agree, but alot of games get over a 9 nowadays, look at what gamespot gave that wario game a 9.1 or something.

9's are thrown around more then 10s are, and again i just believe in 10s if the game is just fantastic and deserves to be recognized

The only way they can fix this is just to be harsher on games, make it so games that are great, but nothing fantastic new, or blows you away, get a high 8 to 9, not a 9.7 etc. because they then the games that are better, have to obtain a 10 to be regonized

I find this a little funny considering HL2 came with a lot of stuff, including CS: Source. But hey, kudos to Bioshock for convincing me to upgrade my PC to play it.  Will be interesting to see if it maintains the lead over HL2, though.

 Agreed.

Both great games indeed.

Also i have to add on popular request that there is also this underestimated great game Lair. Following the genereal critisizm on vgchart's forum i can only say that the game looks great and if you look at a few instructional YouTube videos about how you have to use the controlls it seems to be an AAA title after all.
Oh it's 4 gigs per map, that really does make the game great. It's on a blue-ray disk, yet your dragon is brown. And the playstation universe whatever site gave it double the score of other well known sites. And no, as me they are unbiased.

Hmm on opinion it can be a AAA title, but in order for this to happen it has to at least get decent to great reviews, so far they have been incredibly low, from true unbiased sites.

Im guessing our joking most of this =P

its on a blue ray but its brown  rofl

 i agree, and given bioshock's more recent reviews are closer to 90%, I'd say you are on the right track if you assume that it'll drop down HL2 before long

What a waste of a thread.

There's a simple reason behind it that I guess no one understands.

After the first 30 or 40 big reviews, average scores always go down. Zelda: TP was doing much higher than it did in the end. Once you get to a certain point, the reviews end up being alot worse, as they aren't the major magazines and are just throwing their 2 cents in, and are rarely major publications that have in-depth reviews, or are held to real high standards.

So is it any wonder that Bioshock has gone down a few tenths of a percentage points? MP3 isn't suprising that it's gone up, but to go up another 2% or more, will be very difficult, or impossible to do.