My brother acquired a small, local gaming magazine's rights to publish (we're in the Philippines now doing business) and told me that he would like me to lead the reviews section. I don't know the details yet of which magazine this is, because he doesn't know himself (he bought it through a proxy, and doesn't know a thing about games.. just businesses).

Anyway I've posted a few reviews here, and I usually follow the format of +'s and -'s listed in bullet form, with a /10 score at the end. My priorities in scoring, listed from most important to least, are:

1.) Replay Value
2.) Gameplay
3.) Originality
4.) Polish
5.) Graphics and Sound

The reason I'm telling you guys this is that my reviews are actually going to be read by a mass of people now, and I'm going to have an actual "name" (meaning I can't just treat this as posting on the internet and not take it seriously). I'd like to get some suggestions, especially from the guys who do the reviews on this site. Wish me luck!

Congratulations and good luck.

Good luck. Hopefully you turn out to be a sucessful reviewer!

I tried looking up your reviews through your profile but didn't see any.

Anyway Congrats and good luck.

Kick some ass dude.

Oh the reviews I posted were forum posts, so you'll have to dig through all my posts to find them.

You may want to post some of your reviews on VGChartz so we can extensively judge and analyze it and pick out any flaw and explain why it is wrong in excruciating detail.

Be consistent. Try your bst to review a game as if your review exists in a vacuum. Do not look at others scores from other sites.

U mean u are just temproarliy on the Philpines doing business, but the magazine is English/worldwide or something?

Could you tell that to the VGC review staff?

I mean seriously, as you are a man of influence. VGC reviews suffer from this problem, especially as they come out so late after the game in question is released.