EDGE review scores – March 2012

The latest EDGE scores include Uncharted: Golden Abyss, other Vita launch games, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy XIII-2 and more.

[CaptainSheep]

Golden Abyss got a 7? Not bad but I was expecting more... oh well, still a day 1 buy for me! ^_^

[PSVITAlitysensor]

I prefer Wipeout to Uncharted. Glad it got a better score; so I can look forward to it ;)

[Solid_Snake37]

I've always wondered if Edge scores games lower on purpose

[bunfighterii]

I don't think they score lower, I think they just use the 1-10 scale more accurately than others.

[nveenio]

Edge tends to scale down the big hype games, but I'm not sure it's them trying to get attention. I think they really believe what they're writing.

The Uncharted series is my favorite of all time, but I'm not at all interested in Golden Abyss. It feels too much like Uncharted 1, and I don't want the series to go backward...even on portable. Once I saw that you had to use the accelerometer to balance across tree trunk bridges, I knew that it was a step backward for the series. I'm not interested in a playing a game that is built to show off a device. I want to play a game that is built to show off awesome.

[asbuwango]

I think EDGE score lower for attention... Because sometimes their score is just illogical

[SuperM]

Edge scores are totally unrelaible. You could say they use the whole 1-10 scale but that doesnt explain why they often score mediocre games as high or higher then really good games.

[Gaming101]

@ everyone ^
Of course Edge does it to get attention, and gamers are so predictable as soon as you give their favourite game a bad score, they click on a troll website like Edge and the website gets paid. Edge knows that its trolling will get it hits, why do you think N4G always has an article every month that gets hits and shoots its degree sky high? Does anyone really kid themselves into believing people on the internet are in business for anything other than making money? The people running Edge are successful because they know people who hate them will be clicking on their website and will love hating them every time they do it, all the while Edge rakes in cash. Look up Agency Theory if you're having a hard time understanding this concept.

[gta2800]

Give GTA V a 1 out of 10. Ima still look forward to it regardless of the score.

[Spydiggity]

YOu people are so predictable. Edge scores come out, you cry about them wanting attention. Even though this is an absurd reaction, if you believe it, stop clicking their articles.

I happen to love Kingdoms of Amalur and think it deserves better than a 6, but i'm not going to cry about someone else's opinion. and that's what reviews are...opinions.

assuming they're based in reality and experience. most of you are crying about uncharted's 7 and many of you haven't even played it yet.

[rob6021]

It's not big hype games they tend to score lower, it's PlayStation games. While they score more harshly than other sites/mags on all games, their distaste for PlayStation games is significantly worse. I think trying to figure out why Edge does what it does is something we can't really do. We can only prove the bias.

https://skydrive.live.com/v...

It actually kind of sickens me that people come on the Edge threads and try to defend the site from people that are trying to hold Edge accountable for past bias. I think people reading the scores should be more informed when reading game scores. Its not some made up Sony fanboy myth, Edge is certainly biased against PlayStation exclusive software.

[MaxXAttaxX]

Here are other reviews for comparison:
http://n4g.com/channel/unch...
I see a lot of 9.0, 9.5 and 10s. 8.0 is the lowest.

EDGE is one of 3 or so sites that will give lower scores to highly hyped games, PS exclusives or otherwise(sometimes).

[clrlite]

Wipeout is one of the most underrated games of all time.

[da_2pacalypse]

only a 6 for KoaR? really? I mean, I know it was not as good as I expected it to be... but I think an 8 is a fair score.

[badz149]

GA is a great game but I could already seen their trolling 7 from miles away just so they can stir hits to their site. Pathetic!

[ginsunuva]

Yup, Edge uses the "5 is average" scale like movies. Not the childish school grading system other reviwers adopted.

[Cloudberry]

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MGS3D & WipeOut 2048 accomplished that, but lucky number 7 is not bad.

The same score they gave with Yakuza 4 and I really love that game and series.

[Knushwood Butt]

@ inveni0

Golden Abyss feels MUCH fresher than Uncharted 3 ever did.

As for the game itself, I've beaten it 3 times and got the Platinum, so have more than enough time with the game myself to give my opinion on it. I had a blast with it. Enjoyed it more than Uncharted 3. In fact, it does some things much better than U3: Better script, better characters, better voice acting, better treasure / collectible system, that also adds a lot of back story with it.

My only minor gripes (and these only sprang to mind during my first run - I forgot about them for later runs) are that the number of locations the story evolves in are quite few, so you spend a lot of time in only a few locations, and that some of the music is recycled from the earlier games.

Bottom line is that if you are getting a Vita then Golden Abyss is a must buy.

I'll happily go through it a 4th time at some point (need to play Gravity Daze now though).

[SamPao]

Sounds like its more like the first Uncharted, and to be honest, I love the first Uncharted to this day!! I love numero 2 and 3 but Uncharted 1 also has a very special place in my heart!
Cant wait for Golden abyss!!

[brodychet]

Didn't Edge give Assassin's Creed a 3? In all honestly, 3s are not given to games like Assassin's Creed. I feel 1s 2s and 3s are reserved for barely playable titles. Some that are horrendous in a very obvious way.

Edge just isn't a reviewer I rely on.

[plmkoh]

At the same time they scored Halo ODST a 9, which has been unanimously agreed to by fans and non-fans alike to be one of the worst in the series and was completely unnecessary.In comparison as you said how on earth did Assassins Creed get a 3.

Edge...

[EVILDEAD360]

'At the same time they scored Halo ODST a 9, which has been unanimously agreed to by fans and non-fans alike to be one of the worst in the series and was completely unnecessary'

Complete lie..one of the best campaigns in the series period.

LOL @ playing make believe about what ACTUAL HALO fans 'unanimously' thought about ODST. Jus t stick to games that you ACTUALLY play before your nose grows anymore.

Evil

[Mr-Zex]

I was honestly expecting Golden Abyss to get atleast an 8 or 9 after playing it, but I suppose critics will be critics.

[Gamer1982]

final fantasy scores a joke. Most sites been low balling whats probably been the best FF game for a long time. As a LONG time FF fan I absolutely love the latest instalment and it just shows how much gamings changed that reviewers dislike it for being what it is. The stuff that makes it great would have got it 10/10 5-6 years ago and i'm not talking graphics here. Unless its a shooter or stupidly hard nobody gives it a good score these days and its terrible.

[MegaSackman]

Neverdead 7, nothing to do here.

[Acquiescence]

All I can hear in my head right now is Dr. Evil saying "riiiiiiiiiiiiight."

[smashcrashbash]

Yeah, I don't know why people jump to defend Edge with idiotic scores like this. How in heavens name can Neverdead which just about everyone thinks is a pile of crap be the same as UC:GA a game that has at least gotten an 8 and over from everyone else so far.

Do you know why? Because only idiots take Edge's scores seriously. I never depend on Edge to review anything. I will listen to IGN before I listen to them.And before anyone jumps to try and defend them by saying they have given PS3 games good scores before that is not the point. Their scoring is garbage.

It is amazing how handing out low scores these days are considered the 'truth'. Because CNET gave the VITA a 3/5 people leap to defend it. But almost never see the same people leaping to defend the higher scores that it has gotten. They sit in a corner waiting for the next bad score to mouth off or sit there trying to explain why the good scores don't count.

If you look at all the reviews that the VITA has gotten on N4G so far you see much less people on the articles with the high scores. But as soon as it got a lower score suddenly it is filled with naysayer, trolls and people shouting 'I told you so'. People just love chaos especially here.

Don't care if anyone disagrees. Edge's scores make no sense most of the time and are all over the place. How in the hell is Never Dead better then Amalur or the same as UC:GA? how does that make sense to anyone?

[Moncole]

They got the same score because two diffrent people reviewed each game and decided to give them a 7 from what they think of it. Do you actually think one person reviews each game for Edge?

[insomnium2]

"Because only idiots take Edge's scores seriously"

To top it off the world is just FULL of idiots too.

[Droid Control]

EDGE are the only people that score games correctly.

7 is not bad. 7 is not adverage, 7 is good. 8 is very good.

5 is adverage.

Everyone else only utilizes 7-10 7 bad, 8 ok, 9 good, 10 very good. What is the point of a 10 point system when everyone other than EDGE only scores out of essentially 5?

[callahan09]

They score games correctly? The ONLY people? Don't you find it a little odd that a game like inFamous 2, which got like an 85 average score from all the critics combined on Metacritic, is given a 6, and then NeverDead, which has like a 50 average from all the other critics on Metacritic, gets a better score, a 7, from Edge? Their scores are wildly off the charts, either on the high or low end, all the time.

[HardcoreGamer]

i agreee, with you, they give games like FF13 at 9/10

they give god of war games 6- 8 out of ten and say stuff like this,

"The stuff of legend, then? Indeed. Although, perhaps fittingly, one with nothing new to say"

that comment is literally saying good but ripping the game in a figure of speech, but giving it an 8??? very dodgy people. i can guess their scores now but only between exclusives.

oh yeah, they gave crackdown
8/ 10

and said

"The cliché regarding this sort of game is that it changes the way you view your own world: I know for sure that I'll be seeing those last few Orbs in my dreams for months to come. If you need any indication of Crackdown's brilliance, that's surely it, right? If you seek its monument, look around you. "

its all in the language they use. you can tell they are biased towards xbox 360

[ronin4life]

Because those places use the method that a 1 to 10 scale is numerically meant to be used wrong.
5 is in the middle, meaning average. Everything above that is progressively better, or above average, and everything below is worse, or below average. This is how scales are supposed to work, but very few places actually follow this basic math principle.

[Fez]

Exactly, we've been conditioned to see a 7 as a bad score when actually it should be regarded as good.

0 - Unplayable
1 - Terrible
2 - Very Bad
3 - Bad
4 - Below Average
5 - Average
6 - Above average
7 - Good
8 - Very Good
9 - Excellent
10 - Outstanding/game of the generation

Average review scores
IGN - 6.9
Gamespot - 6.7
Planet Xbox 360 - 7.7
EDGE - 6.3

Noone uses the full 10 points anymore.

[kaveti6616]

But that's just like, your opinion, man.

Who conditioned you to think that a game that scores 5/10 is worth playing?

[Fez]

lol, we have tho. Read the reviews of most 7 out of 10 games and they are mostly negative. Scores rarely match the writers opinion which is what I mean by being conditioned into thinking scores like 6 or even 5 are bad.

Why is the lowest average for game reviewers on metacritic 5.7 with the overall average being 7.4?

[coolbeans]

"Who conditioned you to think that a game that scores 5/10 is worth playing?"

That's the entire point, no one's forcing a definition of a 5/10 on YOU. That's solely up to somone's discretion to determined what a numerical value means.

The catch: THE SAME GOES FOR SITES!

Edge, like any other site, is allowed to state THEIR personal 'review manifesto' (there's a better word for it) to explain the site's personal view on what a 5/10 game is IN THEIR OPINION. Why these simple statements seem to never get through a gaggle of n4g posters on here is astounding.

[MaxXAttaxX]

It's in their writing. Most reviews 7 or below are full of negativity.

[rob6021]

@coolbeans

Every site is allowed to state their own personal view just as much as any poster has the right to question it. People get attached to game scores because we all know they have a lot of pull inducing success/failure of videogames. These reviews hold a lot of power and when someone holds power, they should hold responsibility too. At face value these are supposed to be objective honest reviews.

[Ult iMate]

>>"Average review scores"
Now try to figure out average review scores of those sites for PS3, Xbox360 and multiplatform games then compare them with metacritics score and you will see Edge's bias.

[coolbeans]

@rob6021

Nothing you stated is actually an argument against my point. What is the point of weighing their responsibility if we're only to look at their review scores, look at metacritic average, then deem if they're biased or not?

This is the same message I've been delivering since I've been on here. You only have a right to call fault against a reviewer if it's in the CONTEXT OF THE REVIEW (ex. IGN's Dead Space 2 review was riddled with grammacal errors and a disregard to dive into many details).

"At face value these are supposed to be objective honest reviews."

You should bother reading any review since they're all subjective to some degree.

[specialguest]

They score games 2 points lower by default than the average score to manipulate you into thinking their scores carry more weight. Apparently, their strategy works, because they seem to attract lots of curiosity even from Edge haters.

[francknara6]

No. Edge uses the good scale, but uses it bad.

Gamekult.com uses the same scale but is way more just.

[trouble_bubble]

Gamekult? LMAO!

They practically live on 7/10 or lower for Playstation. Doesn't matter the game.

LBP...7/10
LBP2...7/10
inFamous...7/10
inFamous 2...7/10
Resistance FOM...7/10
Resistance 2...7/10
Resistance 3...7/10
Killzone 3...7/10
Gran Turismo 5...7/10
Motorstorm...7/10
Motorstorm Pacific Rift...7/10
Motorstorm Arctic Edge...7/10
Motorstorm Apocalypse...7/10
Yakuza 4...7/10
Uncharted Drake's Fortune...7/10
GOW: Ghost of Sparta...7/10
GOW: Chains of Olympus...7/10

Sometimes they'll feel frisky and give one 6/10 like the GOW Origins Collection, lower than the games scored individually btw. Or the very rare 8 for Golden Abyss. 3 point scale, lol!

[xPhearR3dx]

@trouble_bubble

Ummm dude, Edge gave LBP a 10/10 and LBP2 a 9/10. A quick search on Metacritic can give you that information. Your little Edge is against PlayStation theory is pure fanboy talk.

[P_Bomb]

@xPhearR3dx

His post was talking about *Gamekult* scores, not Edge scores. And he's right. Gamekult did in fact give both LBPs 7/10
http://www.gamekult.com/jeu...
http://www.gamekult.com/jeu...

Might wanna edit your post. ;)

[francknara6]

Uncharted Golden Abyss: 8/10
Uncharted 2: 9/10
Uncharted 3: 8/10
Wipeout Pulse: 8/10
Wipeout HD: 8/10
Wiepout 2048: 8/10
Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction: 8/10
Demon's Souls: 8/10
ICO: 9/10
Shadow of the Colossus: 8/10
Jak & Daxter: 9/10
Killzone 2: 8/10
God of War: 8/10
God of War 2: 8/10
God of War 3: 9/10
etc
(no 360 exclusive got 9/10)

Yes, LBP, LBP2 and Heavy Rain are underrated, but Gamekult is not Sony-hater :)

[Gamer1982]

EDGE are very biased towards nintendo games and have been for many years. As for 360 and PS3 games depending on reviewer the scores are all over the place ff13 9/10 yet the far superior ff13-2 5/10.. Stupid scores.

[Kran]

Surprising scores... o.O

[callahan09]

NeverDead got a 7? Are they for real? They gave it one of the highest score's it's gotten! Average is like a 5 out of 10. Weird.

[KentBlake]

So, Amalur is worse than NeverDead?

Ooookay, then. * looks at title *. Oh, it's Edge. Nevermind.

[BinCs]

They're different games reviewed by different people, smartass.

[Titanz]

Wasn't expecting that.

[MasterCornholio]

I wonder what they will give the MGS collection on the Vita?

XperiaRay

[Titanz]

People will take your statement, in a number of ways.

[badz149]

You can quote me on that

[dcortz2027]

One word, EDGE. Expect the unexpected.

[Gamer1982]

On a nintendo console/handheld EDGE are nintendo lovers always have been like Kotaku love MS and hmm not sure who loves Sony to be sure seems they all turned on Sony as long time ago..

[Christopher]

Glad I'm not the only one to see how EDGE loves Nintendo. More covers each year have Nintendo related covers (at least half) and the Nintendo developed games rarely ever go below an 8. If it's a Zelda game, I'm not sure they've ever gone below a 9.

[bunfighterii]

I got Golden Abyss and Unit 13 on Pre-Order for my Vita. Im considering wipeout given its huge feature set, but I've never played a Wipeout game before. Are they really that good?

[HardcoreGamer]

its a fun game, but can get vvery very hard

[GodHandDee]

It's a bit challenging to get used to but once you do it's some of the best fun you can have, especially on the go. I had an absolute blast with Wipeout Pure/Pulse on the psp. Make sure you take your time adjusting and learning the controls, especially timing your breaks

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Man, Edge has to be one of the toughest review sites... then again, is it maybe they have it right and too many other sites tend to score too high?

[TKCMuzzer]

Afraid not, I used to read their mag but steer clear since some very strange reviews where published, not just the score but the wording as well.

[HaVoK308]

Ah, the imaginary objective review voice? No such thing! Reviews will always be bias subjective rhetoric. Only fools believe any different. There is absolutely no such thing as a Right or Wrong review.

Stop endorsing the moronic point system. How does a subjective experience warrant a number score? That's just absurd when you think about it. Walk into an art gallery and start putting scores on painting and sculptures once.

The public has allowed the media to corrupt them and the medium. They have done far more harm to Movies, Music, and Games then good.

[Kos-Mos]

I`ve played one hour of Final Fantasy XIII-2 and I`d review the first hour 5. Still got 50-60 hours left, maybe I will have the same experience throughout the game as the first hour...

[SephirothX21]

Edge just use the 1-10 scale properly but they know they're different than other sites and that's what drives them. Imo, the most reliable reviews are those from Gamespot by far. From my experience, I agree with the majority of scores they've given games that I've played. MGS4 and GTA IV getting a 10 are exceptions but then again, neither of those two games are below a 9.5 imo.

[Demarco156]

so NeverDead is as good as uncharted, wow i must play that

... i did played the game and it horrible

[Bobby Kotex]

Final Fantasy got a 5. LOL.

[Moncole]

People have to remember Edge has diffrent reviewers and each one has their own opinion. It's not like there's a guy named Edge and he reviews all the games.

Just because Uncharted and Neverdead got the same score doesn't mean they are the same good. On Giantbomb two games get the same score but not the same good, that's what they say on the faqs page

[trouble_bubble]

When someone looks on Metacritic or Gamerankings though, which Edge is a part of, they might as well be the same guy. Individual writers don't matter to most people, it's the mag' or site as a whole that gets credit/blame for the score and has to stand behind the shmucks they employ for the rest of eternity.

Same with publishers. It ain't Greg Miller 9/10 splashed on the game boxart, it's IGN 9/10. Even MS quoted metacritic as a whole on the Gears3 demo on XBL.The whole aggregate system kinda sucks that way, cuz it doesn't weed out the idiots with no taste that give games like Uncharted3 5/10 and NeverDead 7/10.

[peeps]

I'm undecided on which games to buy for Vita at launch. There a few I'm interested in but I'm more inclined to give 'underdogs' like Unit 13 a go. Uncharted will no doubt be good fun but it's £40-45 to play a linear single player game with no mp component.

Unit 13, Wipeout 2048, UMvC3 etc etc just seem much better suited to mobile gaming and look to have much more longevity in their mp/leaderboards/challenges, not to mention they are cheaper at £30.

[TKCMuzzer]

I thought they were adding the multiplayer! might be worth hanging on to.

[Ness-Psi]

cant wait to play MGS3 3DS games looking bang tidy.

[OcularVision]

Edge reviews are more erratic than menstruation.

[wolfofashes]

Look people,you shouldn't worry so much about review scores.When it comes to like or dislike a game,we fall in a pretty subjective area.An old example would be Legend of Dragoon that lots of critics bashed but to me is one of the best games ever made.A more recent one would be the fact that there are people who actually like AMY.So let's wait to see what Golden Abyss is holding for us ok? =] Got to agree with Final Fantasy XIII-2 though Square Enix is setting the standard for mediocrity since after FFX.

[HaVoK308]

Who actually pays any attention to Edge reviews? The cynical and jaded? People who love to be trolled?

Its lunacy!

Fuck scores! The medium will go nowhere as long as we continue to endorse this ridiculous scoring scale. Looks towards Hollywood for evidence.

[mixelon]

I wish edge would switch to a 5 point system. Admittedly their scores get a lot of discussion, thus publicity.. But it sucks that their scores don't even slightly hold up against others within a single issue. How the heck did they like neverdead that much? Often I agree with their review text but not their final score which sometimes seems totally random. I think edge is a genuinely (usually) good publication with integrity and some good writers, but just crazy scores.

Metacritic means nothing though really, sometimes edge will mark games up
For innovation even if it doesn't quite work out. Maybe that's what happened to neverdead. Want to read the review now!

[TheDivine]

I know what il be doing on the 22nd.

Playing Mgs3 3d!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I seriously cant wait for this game even though i just beat it in the collection. Its one of my fav games and to have it in my hand in 3d is mind blowingly awesome. I wish they added mgo to it where we could have 1v1 sniper battles like the fight with the end but whatever. Might get a vita and uncharted but thats 320 dollars PLUS tax for only one game i want. Might wait til something else new made for the system drops like a new resident evil, demons souls, mgs, or ff. Also it feels like a jip paying 50 for a 5-6 hour handheld game without any co-op or mp. Revelations has 50 co-op levels on top of a 12 hr campaign, golden abyss would be a must have with some co-op and survival modes.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

Okay, if you guys would just play the damn game based off of your own interests instead of worrying what one gaming website gave the game, then we wouldn't have a problem now would we?

[Zephol]

Uncharted still 7?? wow i buy this game!!

[mshope10]

it's funny yinz say they are baised because they give sony games scores that yinz say are low and bad but i think the are average!

and now yinz say they hate sony and there reviews are unfair to sony!but the last couple years they have been giving great nintendo game the same level scores and yinz said its fair and trask talked nintendo fans!

like when they gave super mario 3d land a 7/10 when to me it deserves at least a 9 or a 10 because not only is it the best portable mario game.its one of the best and most fun mario games ever!before i saw mario 64 this is how i thought they would make 3d mario games i just never imagined the 3d effect would add so much to the game so to me the game is amazing but that doesn't mean everyone will think like me!

so even though vita games didn't get the scores yinz thought. that doesn't mean to you they won't be great.plus i know you sony fans think for some reason every single thing that comes from sony should get a 10 out of 10!
guess what sometimes nintendo and sony are going to make games that get low scores cause they are not as good as you hoped and imagine!

so to say edge hates and is unfair to sony is bullshit and yinz know it!they have rated great nintendo games low for years now and then yinz trash talked every single time go look up the scores!

see the truth is sony fans can dish it out but can't take it!and look in this article there is no nintendo fans trash talking vitas low scores cause they are busy playing great nintendo games right now!but look at all the good and bad nintendo stories there is always a bunch of sony fans trash talking and i cant find out why they care at all?!

and it's true prove me wrong!yinz can't so i'll get marked as trolling for no reason,or i will get 50 disagrees,or someone will trash talk me with something that has nothing to do with my point.because they can't prove me wrong so thats what they do yinz will see!

[madjedi]

If it was readable and in english, people might take the time to argue, but the sloppiness of the post and borderline rabid manner is a turn off.

Learn grammar and english, and try not to look like a tazmanian devil writing his first internet post, then maybe a conversation will happen.

I am willing to bet no one cares enough to try and prove a rambling fanboy arguing about the other side's fanboys being hypocritical about review scores when it suits their needs. Here a hint all sides do it.

[helghast102]

"Star Wars: The Old Republic – 8"
+1 publication to my "do not trust" list.

[badz149]

EDGE has been spewing BS fr quite some time now. Where were you?

[RockmasteR]

Edge sucks
PERIOD

[IM_KINECTED]

I don't see why people care what score the game gets? Is a 7 going to stop you from buying the game or enjoying it? It shouldn't, I mean we all have our own tastes and likes.

People see "Uncharted" and associate Naughty Dog with the game. This game is a handheld game, usually handhelds don't have the same quality as console games. They might have compared this game to the other Uncharted games, and lets face it, nothing is going to compare to those console games.

[Velox]

Ehm... yeah, nothing new ... edge overrates