9.0

Unless something is terribly wrong, this game won't do less than a 9 on ign. This is the kind of event that they love, and they don't want the fan-backlash. Whether it deserves a 9.0 will be debated for months. Still, if it earns less, you guys can punch me in the balls.

8.5 - 9.0

Man am I ever sick of seeing this. I am actually VERY picky about what games I like. Halo 3 is a very good game, why would I not think I would like ODST? Sometimes the games are as good as the marketing makes it out to be (I'm not saying this will be, but it doesn't make me a sheep to think I will like a game that is similar to a game I love)

8.7 (high 8s to be more general).

Anything lower than 9 would be a dissapointment!

Halo has never had problems with quality.

well, Halo3 is all but as amazing as it review score suggests it could be ...

it is an overrated game. I m not seeing it deserves a 5/10 but defintively not a 10/10 like many american websites have given away ...

It'll be reviewed by Hilary and receive a 9.5.

Disagree. I've played halo for over a year now and its still the mos tplayed game in my houshold. Did over 3500 online matches... Beat campaign over 12 times. Created 10+ map variants. Saved dozens of funny kill replays...

Most other games that get 8+/10 you play, you beat and you move on. Halo 3 however is different and is easly one of the few games that deserves over 9/10

Gears of war 2 on the other hand...

No game deserves a 10/10, that is a fact. My problem is the sheep comment, I think that Halo 3 was a good enough game that any FPS fan that owns a 360 could realistically enjoy the game. When you say sheep, you indicate that people are blindly following the marketing to something regardless of the quality. If the game was mediocre to bad, (protip: it's not, no matter what Halo haters say) you could say that. But they bought it, and are still buying it, and are still playing it (#1 on xbox live this last week), this just does not happen with a mediocre/bad game.

I think the part about the legs is a better tribute to it's quality, I think sales down the road are less attributable to hype and more to word of mouth. Of course, the Wii does hurt that arguement, there is no way you could call WiiFit a good "game", but I think it's kind of in it's own little bubble.