reptiletim wrote:
On Metacritic the new Sim City had multiple 100 point reviews from "professional" reviewers before the game was even released yet. Not counting the poor launch due to the servers, whatever copy they reviewed still would have had all the bugs the game launched with as well as the mandatory always online connection and they still rated it the highest score on the scale. They even defended it by saying gamers are to whiney and that we should love the online requirement for a single player game.
And this is the main reason I don't go by gaming site or magazine reviews... they tend to be incredibly biased. It's also the main reason I don't even read reviews until a game has been released. On the whole however, metacritic usually gives a pretty accurate assessment of a game once there are enough reviews to make a decent sample size. I tend not to look at anything on there that doesn't have at least 20-25 professional reviews and 100+ consumer reviews. Too small a group to get any kind of accurate idea of how a game is. And even at larger numbers, it's never an exact Science. Heck, one of my favorite games for PSP is called Brave Story, a game most people have probably never even heard of and didn't get all that great reviews, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
It's so hard to figure out if you'll like a game from reviews, because every gamer likes different things.