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Theres Grand Slam Tennis and Virtua Tennis coming this month on the Wii. I really don't plan on buying both so I looked for reviewers help.

IGN 8.5/10

"Grand Slam Tennis is an impressive package on Wii, and one of the best tennis games I’ve ever played. ..... On top of some impressive, extremely accurate – once you get the feel for them – motion controls the game is also packed with content, including a full Grand Slam career mode, create-a-character, impressive online play that puts country vs. country play at the forefront of it all, and a party mode I actually want to play."

Eurogamer 5/10

"Grand Slam Tennis is an underwhelming representation of tennis, crippled by unintuitive controls, and just makes you want to go back to the precision of Top Spin or Virtua Tennis on a control pad."

Seriously, one of this 2 reviewers need to be shot. How can the game be best for 1 and worst for the other ? Ok they may give a bit different scores but from 5 to 8.5 the difference is bigger than the sky.

This isn't a discussion about any of the 2 games or any console, it's about how can games can get so different scores.



 

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simple.....its opinion.....i hate some games people think are great..



I'm not martin luther king. I don't have a dream. I have a plan

Sell a man a fish you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish you just ruined a perfect business opportunity.

We didn't emerge out of the stone age because we ran out of stones. Its time to be proactive not reactive.

Simple... its EuroGamer.

They are THE worst review site on the net.



                            

Reviewers are people too you know. One mans trash is another mans treasure!



Fame_Mcswagg said:
simple.....its opinion.....i hate some games people think are great..

No, this is not an accepted posibility. Games should never be reviewed by people who hate them by default. Otherwise reviewers would be obsolote. Remember, they are paid to tell us if games worth buying.



 

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Different people reviewing it.

The end.



FaithRaven said:
Fame_Mcswagg said:
simple.....its opinion.....i hate some games people think are great..

No, this is not an accepted posibility. Games should never be reviewed by people who hate them by default. Otherwise reviewers would be obsolote. Remember, they are paid to tell us if games worth buying.

so if you hate a game after you play it you cant review it??? thats strange. they are paid to tell you if its worth buying it or not..



I'm not martin luther king. I don't have a dream. I have a plan

Sell a man a fish you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish you just ruined a perfect business opportunity.

We didn't emerge out of the stone age because we ran out of stones. Its time to be proactive not reactive.

Fame_Mcswagg said:
FaithRaven said:
Fame_Mcswagg said:
simple.....its opinion.....i hate some games people think are great..

No, this is not an accepted posibility. Games should never be reviewed by people who hate them by default. Otherwise reviewers would be obsolote. Remember, they are paid to tell us if games worth buying.

so if you hate a game after you play it you cant review it??? thats strange. they are paid to tell you if its worth buying it or not..

They failed really hard at it ... 1 of them at least.



 

FaithRaven said:
Fame_Mcswagg said:
simple.....its opinion.....i hate some games people think are great..

No, this is not an accepted posibility. Games should never be reviewed by people who hate them by default. Otherwise reviewers would be obsolote. Remember, they are paid to tell us if games worth buying.

An opinion isn't hating something by default.  People just like different things, what works for some people might be awful for others.  Not to mention you have to consider that ign tends to use the higher end of the scale while eurogamer is often lower.  I'd say most people consider a 7 from Eurogamer better than a 7 from IGN.



So people with different opinions need to be shot? Fascist or Communist authoritarian?



Tease.