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Slimebeast on 30 September 2009

Gametrailers and Eurogamer. Gamespy and IGN is third and fourth.

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Kantor on 30 September 2009

PullusPardus said:

Kantor said:

PullusPardus said:
its not they are "Too lazy" , jeez.

its that Gamespot doesn't review a game before getting the final build. IGN reviews the review build, IGN is pretty stupid at times, reviewed by a bunch of idiots, and if their fanbase loves a game, they give it an extra score, if the game is not so popular they just rub it off, if the game is too hard to finish they whine about the difficulty and review it before finishing it.

Gamespot however take good notes on what the game offers and what to keep an eye out, their scores however are not the most generous but thats a good thing since it means they are not biased.

so Gamespot.

Okay. Please explain why:

1) They didn't review Valkyria Chronicles until 3 weeks after release

2) The PS3 review of Dead Space was put up a week after the 360 review, and was IDENTICAL.

3) Similarly, Dragon Ball Burst Limit had no PS3 review until WAY after the 360 review.

I don't know why they do it, but they do it.

1) its an rpg, VC takes long to finish.

2) different team, reviewing on different consoles

3) same as above

1) 3 weeks? For somebody whose job it is to play videogames and write about them? 21 days? And then gave it 8.5.

2) With the same review.

3) Same as above.

Not to mention a few horrible, horrible things they have done:

1) Tools of Destruction 7.5. Most monumental fail of any reviewer ever.

2) Assassin's Creed 9. I was actually excited for it. Fortunately, I never got around to buying it, and only borrowed and finished it. Oh god...

3) The Kane and Lynch debacle- WHAT? Eidos gives us advertising money, Jeff! You can't give their game a 6.5! You are so fired, and we're editing your review to boot.

There are others, but those were three that stuck in my mind.

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MikeB on 30 September 2009

IGN hands down. They usually provide good reasons (but not always), IMO the most professional US based game review website (at least that I know of).

Gamespot on the other hand judging from the reviews I read and compared used a lot of double standards, so much so their console / franchise bias seems far too apparent in the past. So one of the worst I know of (at least amongst the major sites).

Naughty Dog: "At Naughty Dog, we're pretty sure we should be able to see leaps between games on the PS3 that are even bigger than they were on the PS2."

PS3 vs 360 sales

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Kantor on 30 September 2009

And another thing- I checked Dead Space. The review was identical, word for word, and reviewed by the same person. Lark Anderson.

EDIT: Also checked the dates:

360: 14th October 2008

PS3 and PC: 1st November 2008

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Fab_GS on 30 September 2009

PullusPardus said:
its not they are "Too lazy" , jeez.

its that Gamespot doesn't review a game before getting the final build. IGN reviews the review build, IGN is pretty stupid at times, reviewed by a bunch of idiots, and if their fanbase loves a game, they give it an extra score, if the game is not so popular they just rub it off, if the game is too hard to finish they whine about the difficulty and review it before finishing it.

Gamespot however take good notes on what the game offers and what to keep an eye out, their scores however are not the most generous but thats a good thing since it means they are not biased.

so Gamespot.

I completely agree with this!
IMO, IGN is too generous with the scores and their reviews usually has spoilers.

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Kantor on 30 September 2009

Fab_GS said:

PullusPardus said:
its not they are "Too lazy" , jeez.

its that Gamespot doesn't review a game before getting the final build. IGN reviews the review build, IGN is pretty stupid at times, reviewed by a bunch of idiots, and if their fanbase loves a game, they give it an extra score, if the game is not so popular they just rub it off, if the game is too hard to finish they whine about the difficulty and review it before finishing it.

Gamespot however take good notes on what the game offers and what to keep an eye out, their scores however are not the most generous but thats a good thing since it means they are not biased.

so Gamespot.

I completely agree with this!
IMO, IGN is too generous with the scores and their reviews usually has spoilers.

Ignore both scores, and an IGN review is 4 pages of detail, while a GameSpot review is 1 page of random crap.

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PullusPardus on 30 September 2009

Gamespot gave Assassin Creed a 9/10 ?!?!
okay thats crap.
that game is total crap , and 6/10 is too much for it
each time someone mentions it , i just sit there and think " why did i buy it, why did i support it ? "

i wish i knew why, and why people like it so much =[

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AdventWolf on 30 September 2009

I only use IGN out of the two but I don't agree with some of the scores. But it seems to be a good basis imo.

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miz1q2w3e on 30 September 2009

IGN fore sure, i like they're reviews more, i like the content they offer, the site layout looks better to me, they list news in a way i like and they show their articles and news (ex:new screens of a game) in a better way, news on gamespot just seems to get lost in the clutter... the screens and vids are better organized at IGN too.

the only thing where ign isn't as good as gamespot is when i want to find a certain genre of games, they show the boxart + score for each game. that's all i use gamespot for nowadays.