its spelt G.L.I.T.C.H.

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Normally I don’t argue about silly review scores and such, but I must say that a review is just not someone’s personal opinion. People that provide games reviews are professionals and as such the aim would be to provide an objective comment.

Let’s say, a big website gets 12 000 hits for a review, which turns out to be negative. Multiply this figure maybe by 4 websites each with 12 000 hits for that specific review(similar negative score). That is 48 000 potential buyers who may not buy that game because of the review score it received. I fail to see how people can claim that reviews are just opinion pieces, because your core function (what you get paid for) is to provide an unbiased objective comment.

The reason why I am bringing this up is because I have seen some poorly written reviews in recent times. Lets take the Uncharted 2 review from IGN. The reviewer wastes too much time on the bad aspects of the game mechanic and often goes back to it over and over again. Yet it gets a 9.5. I would expect a lower score to match the tone of the review. What I am suggesting is that the score should reflect the tone of the review.

Disclaimer: this logic does not apply to fanboys.