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IGN's Unfair Reviewing Rears Its Ugly Head Again

January 18, 2011 in Blog comments 13

Despite the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 containing all the DLC of the title (released thus far) as well as a new re-polished ME3 engine and 7.1 Surround sound, IGN felt it fit to slash points in each category for the PS3 version of the title. Bias anybody? Check out the rest of the details here.

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  • 1
    Bale Fire* Jan 18, 11
    I'm going to call bull crap here. Considering the game is a year old, been adapted to a different console and reviewed by separate people I think a one point difference (as in 0.1, not 1.0) is very acceptable.

    The way this article goes on you'd think IGN had given the game a zero.
    • 1
      Red 9 Jan 18, 11
      The scale of what people thinks constitutes a great game has changed drastically over the years. While before a 7 or 8 would still be a good, if not great score, now people now often regard those numbers as bad, and are flops. I suppose its with the costantly increasing technical flashiness of games that people's standards have invariably gone up.
    • 0
      ShadowGuard Jan 18, 11
      Still, the more content and a better engine, why would they dock points at all. The game should have gotten a better score simply for content! They rated this game on expectations alone.

      who knows, maybe IGN is a 360fanboy site.
  • 2
    kazad Jan 19, 11
    IGN changed their reviewing system in the year when they score they only give rounded numbers like 10 or .5s they don't give out .6s anymore so its pretty much the same score
  • 1
    Existence Jan 19, 11
    ...and this is why you actually READ the review, instead of just looking at the score, which is very subjective. The reviewer made it abundantly clear in the review that the PS3 version was better than the 360 version, yet this site bitches because of a 0.1 difference in the score.

    If you really want hits that bad, try writing intelligent articles.
    • 1
      Gamesta100 Jan 19, 11
      It's not the site, it's one man.Part of the reason he doesn't like it is because the reviw says it's better than the PS3 version but they actually give it a lower score than the 360 version.

      Before I read it I thought IGN gave the game like 7/10 or something, not a measly .1% less than th e360 score.


      This guy just goes to show that you don't need to be an overopinionated 10 year old to bitch about something so trivial as a game getting .1% lower score.
  • 4
    Hideo1 Jan 19, 11
    http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8510/godhand20ign.jpg

    Just saying.
    • 0
      FinalFantasyFanaticc Jan 19, 11
      Words cannot describe the awesomeness of that picture, just amazing.
    • 0
      Big A2 Jan 19, 11
      Man, no-one is ever going to get over that God Hand review.
  • 2
    2011B_xpdia_moND1 Jan 19, 11
    How about gamers stop caring about game review scores, already? The system will never be fair, stop being dumbasses.
  • 1
    Shinobi_razor Jan 24, 11
    oh no!! .1 points lower than the 360 version!! IGN, you unfair BASTARDS!!!

    the dude that wrote the article is just one of those whiny PS3 fanboys that cries foul when PS3 games get even slightly bad reviews, or worse than their 360 counterparts. its still a really good score either way, so shutup.
  • 1
    XboxOZ360 Feb 22, 11
    We copped the same at OXCGN when we stopped giving 'incremental scoring' and rounded the scores out.

    We no longer give a 9.8/10 it's a 9.5/10, or a 7/10 instead of a 7.2/10.

    What we chose to do was also ad an Award, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum, not that that one will ever get award all that often.

    It sort of reflects the reviewers 'overall' feelings of how he/she experienced the game.

    Even a solid Silver at 8.5 is not a bad thing, it's great, yet some ppl see that as an insult to.

    Like 'Red 9' said before, many gamers ideas of game scores are blown right out of proportion these days. So much so, that game publishers now pull the plug on games if their 'forecasted' Metacritc scores are going to fall below 8.5 average. Now that is bad when the industry has to do that.

    True Crime Hong Kong was the most recent victim of that, as it was found that the presumed average score for the game was going to fall 'around 8 - 8.3 on Metacritic, so they shelved it - permenatly.

    There's bugger all wrong with an average score of that mark.

    Sad day in gaming when games are pulled or rated by a mear0.01% mark or pre-rated and removed from development.
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    2011B_xpdia_moND1 Feb 28, 11
    If your reviewers can't sum up their feelings in a closing paragraph in lieu of awarding a score, medal, star, or whatever, I don't think that's helping.

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