I won't even read the review. I know this game is better than that. I wonder what they will give Mario Galaxy...

Hmm, this Gamespot review is beginning to look like a crock of ***.

You know, they made a big deal about improving the depth and quality of their rankings, and now their reviewer plunks down a 7.5 for Ratchet, for apparent reason other than grumpiness -- i.e. supposedly it wasn't difficult enough, whatever the hell that means. Excuse me? Does every action game have to require Olympic finger training?

I've played the Ratchet demo, and Insomniac delivered the goods -- fun, exciting, great balance in weapons and controls, and crackerjack voice acting and some wicked humor. Just a blast to play and replay. I find it difficult to imagine they screwed up the entire game.

Must be a horribly biased magazine. Folklore is most certainly a well above average action RPG, actually quite impressive and well polished overall, also Halo 3 doesn't really deserve a 10 for sure, nomatter being a vivid FPS fan or not it's far from perfect.

Interesting IGN claims: "The story is strong and ends with closure and a cliffhanger (figure that one out), ", while Gamespot claims the story is weak as one of their non indepth spots of criticism.

If so, I wonder why Gamespot gave Gears of War a 9.6, the story in that game was certainly hard to find and the main characters certainly lack charisma and acting talent.

The 7.5 from Gamespot seems genuinely unfounded.

Also Eye of Judgement currently enjoys an above 80% industry average, maybe they aren't fans of card based games like this, but I think they should review the game from the perspective of its target audience, so those who do like playing such kind of games. You don't let a person suffering from FPS motionsickness review Halo 3 or Lair, or would you?

@routsounmanman,

The difference between shock and suicide is why.

PS - Hopefully this should convince more people to join my crusuade against review scores. Boiling a game down to a single numerical value is wrong. Write your GD reviews and let people form their impressions based on that.

I hate review scores!

Gosh who cares, if the average score is pretty good, then why even bother to fuss about one person who gives a lame review, am I right? Back then they were shooting at a reviewer at Gamespot who gave the lowest score around that time for Zelda TP. They had to remove comments as people were literally threatening that poor bloke. Totally sick.

In general, I never trust one single magazine / website for reviewing anyway. When I have a chance I check average scores at gamerankings and to be honest... I don't even find that all too trustworthy.

 Did you not hear about the "gift packs" that they were giving out at launch, they were worth a few hundred $. A read stuff about them essentially being baised

Well its owned by microsoft..

OT: I wasnt expecting such great reviews, I dont listen to gamespot since I knew they were biased since e3 06(yep 06) When the ps3 came out I remember the exact moment, there entire site was filled with gears of war montages and only 1 ps3 video. Very biased indeed. This just proves they are even more biased and just downright dissapointing.