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Lucien21 · 03-17-2008, 12:47 PM

I think it is a good idea to read a range of reviews until you can identify a reviewer or site that best fits your style and stick to them.

It's never going to be perfect, but you get to know their style and use your own judgement as to what you like and dislike to form your own opinion on the game.

Some reviewers are just out for shock value (Zero Punctuation - I hate everything misery party for instance), other sites like Gamespot etc don't rate adventure games highly at the best of times and especially 1st person games (Scratches got an unusally harsh review) and the speciality sites might be over generous with their scores.

You need to take that all into consideration.

Edit: You could always look at sites like Metacritic which gives and average of a range of sites.

03-17-2008, 12:47 PM	#28
Lucien21 Psychonaut Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 5,114	I think it is a good idea to read a range of reviews until you can identify a reviewer or site that best fits your style and stick to them. It's never going to be perfect, but you get to know their style and use your own judgement as to what you like and dislike to form your own opinion on the game. Some reviewers are just out for shock value (Zero Punctuation - I hate everything misery party for instance), other sites like Gamespot etc don't rate adventure games highly at the best of times and especially 1st person games (Scratches got an unusally harsh review) and the speciality sites might be over generous with their scores. You need to take that all into consideration. Edit: You could always look at sites like Metacritic which gives and average of a range of sites. __________________ I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!