It was never going to get over 90% now was it. People have just played too many brilliant shooters for this to be anything spectacular to them. That said, 87% is a very good score, i don't understand why some people use a 70 - 100% system with 90+ being incredible, 80+ being meh, 70+ being just about acceptable and 60- being totally unplayable.

I'm waiting for IGN's report. But glad others are sticking to high 80's. So far so good.

This settles it. High 80's are good enough to me!
Ill go get the special edition reserve later.

Yea, you guys are correct this game will probably end up with a high 80s average.

I wanted The Conduit to get atleast a 90 on metacritic. My hopes are dying but that wont stop me from buying this game. Just the fact that it got that high makes me more proud of it not that I wont like it that much. LOL too many contradictions

This is a new wii IP and that means it doesn't get the mostly bloathed scores of the big franchise (mostly HD) games. The thing is that a host of other games got at least a point to much. And the conduit or others get the scores on it's real merits or faults. That leads to the sad situation where many games look worse than they really are because the competition is overrated. But then again, a review is an opinion. I think the Conduit will end up on metacritic score of 85.

I can see The Conduit ending up at around an 82 or something.

But who knows?

It's hard to judge from a single review coming from a really random source.

Yes, I was right on the money with my score predictions! But, I was secretly hoping this would get at least 90's...

People's expectations for this game are too low. Call of Duty : World at War settled at an 83 on metacritic, and The Conduit should be able to beat that, so mid to upper 80s is the least one should expect.

That said, what did this German gaming mag give COD: WAW?