even though ign is my favourite site to find gaming info, they do overrate in there reviews abit.

game runs at 55FPS on 360 and about 51FPS on PS3. to maintain those graphics and still run well is a pretty big accomplishment.

That being said, Uncharted 2 is in an entire other world when compared to this. Modern Warfare 2 still looks awesome though.

The game is graphically pleasing and runs well on both consoles, nothing to be sniffed at and certainly compared to previous multiplatform releases a graphical technical achievement. Games such as Gears and Uncharted are platform exclusive so I do not think it fair to compare its single platform achievement whith reaching the standard the COD series produce on multiple platforms.

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The game most certainly is a technical improvement over gears 2.

A review score is based on the quality and purpose of the game in question. Things like exclusivity should not have ANY influence on a review score, that would be stupid. Should a game that was in development for just 1 year have a higher graphical review score than a game with the same graphical qualities which was in development for 5 years? No, a game is a game and i don't think it has anything to do with being fair or not.. A review score should tell me what i can expect from the game in question, that's it. Everything else is irrelevant for the review score. If you believe those review scores should be put into perspective, i totally agree with you, but that's something i believe we all have to do for ourselves.

I just dont really take scores to serious to be honest

you DO know there's something like art style, art direction, composition, effects, attention to detail etc. since graphics is something more than models and textures, right? just look at Gears of War 1/2 and then look at Quantum Theory which is basically GoW ripoff in every possible way - same artstyle yet both Gears of War and Gears of War 2 look awesome while Quantum Theory looks like crappy ps2 game.

I'm not surprised at the inconsistencies. It's not one person at IGN writing all the reviews. They've got a bunch of reviewers at IGN and each one probably has a slightly different interpretation of what a 10 in graphics equals.

good point,does seem rather silly

It's an amazing looking game given that it's multiplatform, I'm not sure it deserves a perfect 10 in graphics but from what I recall IGN only gives out whole or 0.5 scores, so between 9.5 and 10 maybe they thought it deserved a 10 more than a 9.5....

It doesn't necessarily mean that they think the graphics are the best or are perfect, but it does show that given what they have to work with (3 platforms) they do an amazing job (which they do).

I probably would have given them a 9.5 myself (if it was a choice between that and 10), but I must say, none of these titans of the graphics department (MGS4, Uncharted 2, Gears 2, KZ2) were forced to work on 3 platforms like MW2 has. You have to give major props for that.