Friday, November 30, 2007

Commercial review sites, what´s wrong with em

The question pops up from time to time, excellent games get´s subpar scores at certain sites and subpar games get´s excellent scores, sure there´s something called point of view and aquired taste and personal preferences, but still, Alot of commercial websites hands out weird reviews, time after time.

The latest happening to cast doubt over the commercial gaming sites out there is the happenings going on over at gamespot.com, Jeff gerstman got fired and the last thing he did prior to that was posting a review of kane and lynch and scoring it average, while at the same time the website had ad´s plastered all over it for mentioned game.

Even without that gamespot has been a site with questionable reviews and especialy for the ps3, like giving ratchet and clank a score of 7.5, not bad enough to stand out to much, but still alot lower then what most others hands out and uncharted also got a noticable lower score at gamespot then other sites.

Now personal preferences could possible make up for that but the recent happenings over at gamespot do cast a big, shadow over gamespot previous reviews.

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