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Ginsu Victim:
RottenTomatoes also collects game reviews. (Though I've never really used them much for games, only movies)

patrickl:
I usually use Metacritic for checking the ratings. The scores there vary a lot and the IGN scores usually come closest to my opinion. They tends to have the most in depth reviews too. I think the only game they really steered me wrong was Battle Rev

In fact I took the scores of 40 Wii games. Out of these 7 games didn't have a review on 1UP (among which 3 of our favorite games!). IGN had reviews for all games. for 22 games IGN had the score closest to the Metacritic average. 1UP had only 7 scores where they were closest to the average. I compared it to the user scores too and then IGN was correct in 20 cases and 1UP in 9. The 1UP scores were often way off and they hand out way to many 10's.

So the IGN scores are a lot more accurate than 1UP. Besides, missing the reviews for games that I like best completely disqualifies them as a usable review site IMHO.

from the list of 40 games I had 13 favorites (games that we really play). Out of these only 10 had reviews on 1UP and in only 2 cases was the 1UP review the most accurate. IGN was correct in 8 case (or 11). That's a huge difference.

There were 11 games I really disliked Both had 5 reviews where they were most inaccurate (scored the game highest) So on games I don't like they both did equally well.

So I guess my impression of IGN simply fits with the data. For Wii games at least.

Benevolance:
This thread is missing the point. Jack Thompson was disbarred. Though I doubt we'll be hearing any less from him, it does mean that he won't be randomly suing video game companies to prevent the release of their games any more. And that calls for celebration.

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: Benevolance on September 27, 2008, 06:20:33 pm ---This thread is missing the point. Jack Thompson was disbarred.

--- End quote ---

I certainly didn't miss the point (then again, I started this topic)

Benevolance:
I will play some GTA4 to mark the happy occasion.

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