Why the Perfect Game Review Scores are Misleading

Over the last two months, a lot of big budget AAA games have been released for all platforms. I wrote an article about that subject here. These games have been over-hyped and advertised by the various media outlets in the media and online. The game is released and the review scores follow. These review scores are supposed to be factual opinions based on the product itself. The review should be done by someone who can be non-partial to the game or franchise in their writing.

Reasons Why Review Scores are Too High or Perfect:

Those are the wrong reasons for a glowing review score. No game should be scored high if the game is missing content and needs to be patched on release day. Once a game gets patched, a bug is fixed and therefore the game wasn't perfect.

Review scores also have too many different types of metrics. Please stick to the 1-100 scoring. It seems to be more accurate and overall widely accepted. You can easily dock points for one thing or another based on flaws or bugs.

So when your reading a the reviews and comparing it to others. Think about those reasons above why a reviewer chose to rate the game high. If they can't provide a reasonable explanation of the score, then it isn’t a good review. It just becomes more baseless game reviews clogging up the internet driving up site traffic.

What new games have you played lately that were graded too high only to be disappointed? Should the score have been lower?

Additional Reading and Links:

Metacritic : Aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics.

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