The trouble with getting other members of staff to comment on each game is that it requires other members of staff to have
played the game. So we already need at least twice the number of review copies. And, of course, they would need to all receive advance copies when one does, or the comments wouldn't be ready on time.
And do you really want superfluous comments at the end of
Myst reviews saying things like "Well, I hate
Myst-like games, so I was never going to enjoy this one"?
As for user scores, we all seem to have highly polarised views of games such as
Still Life or
Myst or
Syberia. Which would probably wreck the averages.
User reviews, meanwhile, would have to be edited/moderated, unless you want a whole lot of chaff mixed in with the wheat.
I like the idea, but I'm not sure it would work in practice...
