I'm not sure if it was the US version (I think it was though), but I recall seeing a comparison for one of these playstation magazines that showed they were generally harsher to exclusives compared to the metacritic average.

No that is unbiased....I just don't trust any magizine that has the brand name in the label. For example if a game was released in the Wii and the review was from Nintendo Power or a fiction magizine called Official Wii Magizine I wouldn't trust it. Great IGN gave it a 9.5

And neither magazine is owned by that company either,  they are run and owned by a publishing company that have no ties to Sony or Microsoft.  I think the same company actually does both the Official Playstation Magazine and Official Xbox Magazine.

GTA IV>>>HALO 3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MGS4>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Uncharted 2 in sales.

OT:  I think Uncharted 2 will get mid 90s score when the dust clear.  Too bad Uncharted 2 is not on my long list of games to buy this year.  Give InFamous 2 and I will pre-order 10 copies!

umm anyone want to play uncharted 2 right now. I want to try and beat the co-op arena. any takers?

Care to ellaborate on how OPM gave the first uncharted an 80? 8 points below the average metacritic?

You can deny it, play devils advocate all you want. This game deserves it. Just accept it.

Wow! I think everyone has misinterpreted what I was saying. I'm actually want Uncharted 2 and have pre-ordered it, I'm not knocking the game just the review source. I have the first Uncharted and think it's great. I would also like to thank Best Buy, thanks to the rewards zone program I'm getting Uncharted 2 for $5.

i hear what your saying.  i feel pretty much the same way,..skeptical of reviews that caters specifically to one console.  biased or not it kind of feels like the posts: "*first party developer* says that *name of their game* could only be on *console for which they are exclusive to*"

yeah, great....that's awesome.

No, we get it. But youre wrong. Youre saying the review is biased meaning it gave the score due to ties with Sony and its an exclusive game so they upped the score. But your claim is proven wrong by reality and facts that their reviews in the past have been below industry standards for games meeting the same criteria.

Not once did anyone question your desire to play the game or whether you loved the original. But to claim the review doesnt have credibility based on it being an exclusive magazine and an exclusive game for said platform has been and will continue to be proven asenine unless you just give it up and admit you made a statement thats been proven false.

From reading the magazine ( I ended up getting a subscription for some ridiculous price ) it's hard to imagine that they're really that biased. A lot of the games that were reviewed ended up with 4.5 stars out of 5. Some games ended up with 4/5.