Lol @ people saying vgchartz. This site is OK for sales data, but the reviews are all very unprofessionally written by people who obviously lack a degree in English and journalism. The reviews are poorly written, bland with common grammar and spelling mistakes. Many of the reviews here are also completely irrelevant, mixing games that have released years ago with reviews of relatively new games. Reviews on this site are fan reviews and as such the quality is no better than those found in the user sections of gamefaqs or anywhere else for that matter.

Also, people criticizing Gamespot purely for their strict scores blow my mind. EVERY gaming website, without exception inflate their scores when compared to those given by other websites dedicated to other media such as film and literature. Games scoring 9 or over should be less than half of what they actually are, and games with an 80 and over should also be less than half. Gamespot is far too soft if anything just like every other site out there. The fact that we expect AAA games to get a 9+ proves that. Until video game websites begin scoring games based on more than technical matter, such as based on social relevance, artistic techniques techniques, congruence of gameplay and message and the meaning and message itself thtis will not change.

@Larad

If you dont like the site, then leave

I don't have a preference but IGN is more, prestigious. As far as user reviews. gamespot is king. IGN usually doesn't have too many user reviews but gamespot has tons.

I've become pretty skeptical of all reviews lately, so I'm going to go with neither. I take my gaming advice from people I trust on this forum, and I do my own research into games.

it usually depends on the reviewer, but I think the best are from GameSpot. IGN has a lot of lazy guys and there's usually a lot of wrong information, except for the games with, ahem, high profile.

lol youtube is a video streaming site or game review site?

Whatever. It's still better.

I agree with this.

Gamespot, I like IGN, but I feel that sometimes they're too lenient, you can be sure that a game that's "hyped" will get at least 9.0 most of the time. Gamespot, while it has reviews I don't agree with, like every site, can be way harsher, and thus more informative.

That proves that GS reviews with final code, they received the 360 game before, did the review, and didn't post the PS3 review before they have checked with the retail game that both games were identical and there were no regional differences

It's not even a contest.

IGN.