God Of War 3 Deserves A 10 Not Bias Journalism

The review scores are in and God Of War 3 has performed incredible but there's one problem, not everyone acknowledges the level of work Sony Santa Monica has put in to move this industry forward.

IGN and Gamespot respectively are the top 2 websites in our industry and some of the statements that were made in their reviews of God Of War 3 were flat out wrong and in a way bias.

The main issue with this is the fans who look to them to get all the details while Reviewers such as Chris Roper and Tom Mc Shea wouldn't know greatness if someone literally slapped them in the face with a peace of it.

[sonarus]

Hip hop gamer deserves a 10

[Cyrax_87]

True, some sites are still bad but at least they're not as bad as Edge. I noticed Eurogamer gave GoW3 a 9 (which is fine) and one of the reasons for the deducted points was because of no multiplayer yet ME2 still gets a 10?

Edit: Nike, some reviewers are bias, or at least, extremely hypocritical. GT said they won't give a game a higher score then 9.3 unless it innovates/does something new (for Uncharted 2) and then MW2 and ME2 gets 9.5/9.7 respectively. What exactly (especially for MW2) did those games do that was new?

And Edge, lmao, if you can't smell the bias from them a mile away, there's something wrong with you. I'm still wondering why their 5/10 review for FFXIII isn't up on metacritic in the 360 section...

[SOAD]

Just in reply to the title I must make the claim that no game deserves a perfect score.

I had a middle school teacher who would never give A's on any of the report cards except for the final report card. His reasoning for this was that if he gave us an A any sooner that would mean we no longer needed to take the class.

Same goes for game developers. I mean, you can't top a perfect, now can you? If you give Sony Santa Monica a perfect grade for their work on God of War III (my philosophy is that the studios is also earning the grade, not just the game), then you're basically telling Sony Santa Monica that there is no more room for improvement. They no longer need to refine anything.

I believe that giving a perfect score to any game is wrong because I believe every game has flaws. We cannot selectively choose to dismiss these flaws and give a game a perfect score because that's dishonest and wrong. It doesn't make sense to look at some flaws and claim they have weight to them but to look at other flaws and say, "aw, it doesn't matter, perfect 10." It shouldn't work that way.

However, some reviewers will give certain flaws more weight than others, and be willing to deduct less points for certain flaws if they feel that they don't reduce the enjoyment one can obtain from the game.

I feel that God of War III is probably an excellent game, but no matter what, it doesn't deserve a 100/100 because it probably has flaws. I'm willing to bet a lot of money that it does. Those flaws might be related to story-telling, pacing, sound, gameplay, who knows?

GTAIV didn't deserve a 10 and MGS4 didn't deserve a 10 and Forza 3 didn't deserve a 10 and nor will GT5.

Pointing out flaws are constructive to the studio. It means they can remember what they did wrong so they can improve on the next game.

[evrfighter]

sorry Joel I don't watch HHG. Just like to comment on how ridiculous he can get.

Sort of like now.

How he needs to play the ps3 fanboys here at n4g for some hits. Then when next week comes around he'll do a 180 and flamebait an article pissing off the ps3 fanboys to get some 360 fanboy hits.

The dude plays n4g for hits and degrees. He doesn't seem to care about readers coming from anywhere else. It's 100% safe to say when he comes up with a title for an article it's with how much degrees on n4g he can get in mind.

I agree with SOAD actually. In GoW3's case, being called a graphics powerhouse when the camera is fixed is a pretty big flaw.

[ChineseDemocracy]

None of these gaming sites are consistent. They get different people to review different games, which makes the whole system flawed. I read one review where the guy hadn't even played the first two games! Also, a reviewer should remain unbiased (which we all know will never happen) and should clear his mind of all preconceptions before reviewing the game. Also, comparisons to other games of similar genres are just unecessary, each game is its own.

By IGN's logic:

Modern Warfare has better graphics than GoW3
Bayonetta > GoW3 (overall)
Grand Theft Auto = Best game of life.

See what I mean?

And please. Do not "buy" reviews. (you know who you are)

[BRG9000]

Not watching this video on the grounds that "bias" is not an adjective. I'm biased against people using that word wrong.

People who can't use the word correctly certainly shouldn't be throwing it around in silly accusations.

[PrimordialSoupBase]

His amazing grasp of the English language deserves a 10.

The title... *Biased

[theEnemy]

all the f*cking glory and chaos it deserves.

[ShinRyuHadoken]

Yep, HHG I agree with you.

But it doesn't matter, reviews scores says nothing. GOW will sell millions!!

[Jamie Foxx]

Before Finalfantasygate,gametrailers numerous bias gaffes,editors getting fired for damaging advertising revenue is that there is a big vendetta against the ps3,I don't agree with angry threads or threatening bias reviewers what does that achieve?

EG-gow3 reviews have started off with 'it doesn't innovate' but 360 reviews like l4D2 start with 'same winning formula' or 'glitches do not break the game',showing the biasness is getting to you provokes those professional fanboy journalists to do it even more,one site that gave gow3 an 8 gave darksiders a 9 which shows just how deep the media hate is,FF has been the final nail for many and frustrations are erupting,but there's a better way to deal with this clear biasness.

Show 'CLASS'',mouthing off, swearing makes you as bad as those proffessional fanboy journalists and inturn to give those comments your giving their sites hits,instead buy the sony exclusives that are unmatched by other console games and support sonys devs that are pushing to give us the best gaming experiences possible, from 256 mag,heavyrain to future releases like modnation racers and of course the new graphical king gow3,show the bias professional (I use that word loosely) journalist fanboys that they are not getting to you and soon they will have to find other ways to get hits,by reacting you are encouraging their biasness and giving them what they want.

[alphakennybody]

I believe the score isn't real problem, but its the ridiculous reasoning behind them is. Like you said no game shouldn't deserve a perfect score but then again what is perfect? Perfect is a subjective word, everyone has varied opinions about it. To me, a perfect game is one that gives an immense amount of satisfaction. That where reviews scores kicks in, if I truly enjoyed a game from beginning to end i'd give it a score no less than a ten as long as I can provide a proper and honest explanation behind it. But that is not he case with todays reviewer, especially the ones from the big sites(GT,IGN,GS etc...)

[crck]

They may be *biased* but at least they went to school and took a couple of English classes along the way.

[Tony P]

*sigh*

That title is epic irony.

[SnuggleBandit]

If you actually watch the video though he does make good points. I mean boyonetta scored lower on the ps3 (rightfully so) so why is the 360 version of FF13 getting a free pass?? Honestly I can't think of anything that would justify these reviewers in doing so

and it really does seem like they nitpick ps3 exclusives waaay more than any other games. I mean GOW 3 got a 9.5 in graphics from IGN (kz2 got a 9.0)

Halo 3 odst got a 9.0 in graphics

I mean you cannot tell me that odst looks as good as kz2 with a straight face. and .5 less then GOW??? seriously now!

I really, really hope that the reviewers he called out respond to him so they get owned!

[topdawg122]

Some GOW3 reviews are definitely questionable, and I also don't like the FFXIII reviews that are the same exact score on both systems. Especially after the whole Bayonetta debacle.
Keep your sh*t up HHG.

[nix]

use N4G or even metacritic to get the general idea about the game. don't sit in a well (one site only) like a frog and take their word as a gospel. as time goes by, you'll learn to compare reviews from different sites that will give you enough clue to which site to listen to or not.

and yeah sadly the freaking media is BIASED!!! thanks to Bayonetta! and FFXIII. as a gamer, we should all protest for this kind of behaviour. it's been going on for a very long time and it's high time we stop it!

[mikeslemonade]

The way games just get 9s and 10s these days should allow GOW3 to get a 10 from basically every review. I mean we see mediocre multiplatform games like Just Cause, Dead Rising, Rainbow Six get 9s and 10s. Review scores are just so inflated and inconsistent. The days where you can get a great game by just looking at a 8.5 or higher score is gone. Basically if the game doesn't get a 9.5-10 it's pretty much shovelware.

I just hate how every reviewer basically uses the 7.5-10 scale. We run into problems when all games get the same score but a game like Uncharted 2 and God of War 3 is far superior than a game that averages a 90% rating like a Lost Planet 2 would probably get. I think if we actually use the full 10pt scale we would not run into problems like this.

And I think Uncharted 2 still has better graphics and physics than God of War 3.

[DailyAddict]

Pretty sure a review is just a person's opinion. So, how can a person's opinion be wrong? It's their opinion. It's not as if their reviews are set in stone and are all things true and equal in this world. It's a review. It's just meant to give people a perspective.

Also, how in the world is HHG going to try to call out IGN and GameSpot when in actuality HHG is sort of like the flavor of the month with retarded fans? The fact that one site is essentially bashing another site also shows how unprofessional he is. You don't see IGN, GameSpot, etc. talking about other sites in a negative way, do you? No, it's just professional courtesy. But, I forgot. HHG is anything but professional and is essentially a black stereotype.

The only people that like him are ghetto people and people who think ghetto people are amusing (white people) because he's essentially a walking stereotype. Thanks for continuing to show the world how no matter what industry black people are involved in, there's always going to be at least one ignorant, stereotype.

Move along.

[pixelsword]

As long as it's a 10 in your book that's all that matters.

Quit giving Gaming sites that piss you off like IGN hits and therefore money for something you don't like if it upsets you that much. It's not that hard. It's like not looking at roadkill when you eat a really meaty cold-cut sandwich; you'll be better off in the long run because your actions don't come back on you.

(apologies for anyone eating a meaty cold-cut sandwich while reading my post)

[BYE]

Chris Roper, that's not how you present yourself on a picture in terms of facial expression. And what with the convict beard and haircut?

You get a 2 in presentation.

[pixelsword]

I guess you weren't here when a bunch of "professional" sites not quite at the level of IGN were attacking HHG almost daily... and most of them were white guys, so your theory is not too sound from the perspective of someone who has been here a longer time.

If you walk away with one thing about HHG talking about other sites, is that he didn't start a lot of them, but he sure did finish a lot of them.

Now, as far as "professional courtesy", I don't think you understand marketing. McDonald's doesn't really attack Burger King regularly because McDonald's is #1; McDonald's need only to market to maintain their position. Burger King will put out an ad to compare themselves to McDonald's because they need to have a certain part of the market share aware of what they have and what McDonald's doesn't (flame broiled, not fried... have it your way; if you remember those campaigns). That's not being unprofessional, that's just business. Believe it or not, HHG is great at his business and he has a good eye on his position, believe it or not. I market professionally and I know a few people have an eye on him for a couple of reasons. I already nailed down what they are looking for, because I was taught by two of the top pros in the game. HHG is intelligent, to say the least.

[evrfighter]

"and most of them were white guys"

are you an effin idiot? please

outside of HHG I don't know any other black guys that do gaming..(insert correct term here as news wouldn't be quite correct). He's an extreme minority in gaming blogging. you really think being black is why people disregard HHG as nothing more than a clown with a rasslin belt?

[pixelsword]

What is your point?

"you really think being black is why people disregard HHG as nothing more than a clown with a rasslin belt?"

That had nothing to do with what I wrote; comprehend why I wrote what I wrote and you'll see why you're way off base (as in, see who I was responding to). My post had nothing to do with HHG being "disregarded" because he was black.

Did you actually read and understand what I wrote? Because your post is as if you didn't understand the context of what I wrote.

READ what dailyaddict posted.

then

READ what I posted, again; and slowly this time... your post isn't making sense.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Somebody call a whambulance! Every time a PS3 game comes out its fans cry foul and biased when the scores aren't 10s. Yo don't see PC, Nintendo, or Xbox fanboys doing this ---> ever. So GOW3 may end up a 9 or 8.7 on meti, that doesn't make it a bad game so stop crying.

[GarandShooter]

Wrong again, Jason360. Research some of the articles defending Too Human against it's low scores/criticisms, rather than employing the 'selective memory' technique.

[Time_Is_On_My_Side]

Just to let you know, thinking in a stereotype is being part of a stereotype too, plus thinking in one is being prejudice? So ultimately you're being openly racist, going back to what HHG is talking about just in a different context, bias?

Just like HHG said, you can have an opinion, just make sense when doing it?

[DaddyPoppa]

that each website gave ample amount of reason why gow3 didn't get a perfect score, also DaddyPoppa believes that people should stop assuming that there favorite game should automatically get a perfect score......The Alpha and the Omega has spoken

[aaronisbla]

Seriously, whats up with people thinking that "perfect" scores shouldnt be handed out if its deserved? no gaming mag or website worth its salt will tell you that a 10/10 means its perfect without any flaws, thats bullsh!t. ( im not saying this game deserves, just saying in general )

it normally means its the cream of the crop, not much out there thats better, things like that. Whats the point of having a 10 out of 10 be attainable if nothing can reach it? thats dumb in my opinion. Thats why games can reach that coveted "perfect score" because it doesn't stand for absolute flawless. No company in their right mind thinks that reviews scoring their game a 10 is telling them its perfect and cant get any better

BTW,, ur middle school teacher deserved a slap upside the head, thats a flawed way of grading in my opinion. If your work is deserves an A, it should get one. Getting an A in mid quarter doesn't mean you ur done with the class and his logic would be highly flawed and protested against if it was applied in high school.

All that being said though, i can agree with you on the fact that some 10s out there don't deserve it.

ON TOPIC: I normally dont buy into the conspiracy theories that are often tossed around but if what HHG said was true about the MLB/ FF13 graphical comparison, fair is fair, if you marked down one system's score far being a lil bit lower in graphical fidelity, do it for both systems, not just one. That shows biased that quite frankly is getting a little old now. Just be fair. If the only thing that made the lower the score for the baseball game was some jaggies, why wasn't the same judgment system applied in the case of FF13?

[3tothe6tothe0tothemc]

Go back to rapping or whatever you do...
Or buy a dictionary.

[evrfighter]

@pixelsword

You've made no attempt to explain why you wrote what I quoted. Instead you chose to cry on how you were taken out of context.

My post stands

[Christopher]

There is a huge issue in today's market that leads to extremely skewed review scores in all the major titles. In the old days, it was about the games and just the games, now it's about:

1 - The reviewers belief that a game needs to evolve in gameplay to a point where every game reviewed by that reviewer loses points for not doing something new in a world where new has proven to be worse for the game.

2 - Whether or not the reviewer is a fan of the genre. One would think that major sites would have people who are interested in and love the genre review various games all the time, but they are very hit and miss and this results in some very skewed review scores. A big FPS fan, which is not uncommon in today's age with most reviewers, could review an FPS game and give it high scores for delivering what they want in a game, but then having that same person review a single player game and comment over and over on the lack of online or 'fps' like qualities just doesn't fit.

3 - Many of today's reviews are about hits. There's no reason why many sites would say what they say with many of the reviews except for the desire to defy convention in order to get people to come to their site and complain/praise them. This results in a spike in daily visitors for a single article. Reviews nowadays, especially by sites that don't control a lot of the game information market, are heavily marketed towards this concept with games that are sure to be big on everyone's radar.

4 - Sites are owned by or rely on certain companies for marketing. GameTrailers is especially known for its relationships to Viacom who recently pulled out of Hulu for many reasons, including the inability to prevent competitor commercials from playing on their video (Google). There definitely some legit questions out there as to how this relationship reflects in their scores, especially seeing as many sites like this seem to have a ceiling to the scores on certain platform exclusives and use arguments as main items in some reviews where they are glossed over in others. Overall, though, there isn't enough proof to prove this, but it's unlikely that it isn't an issue.

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Having said all of that, I'm not sure how bad these reviews really are. Gametrailers gave GoW3 one tenth of a point below U2, which was last year's Game of the Year except by Gametrailers and a handful of others. Does this mean they have an agenda against PS3 exclusives? Hard to tell until we see how they start rating the other side a bit more this year, but based on their overall rating system since mid last year it doesn't really look like it yet.

I do believe that some sites are purposefully putting out low numbers based on #3 above, but these sites really are so small in the scheme of things that they shouldn't be considered with the same weight that other sites have.

[MiloGarret]

Do not click that link!

Don't fall for HHS flamebait articles, if you do you might as well officially declare yourself retarded.

This person needs to be banned from the interwebs.

[snaz27]

ME2 360 meta 96... ME2 PC meta 94! so then is the 360 version superior to the pc version? lol really honestly cant the doubters atleast see that meta is flawed? now about what hhg is saying, i couldnt agree more! the reasons are complete BS and its obvious they had TO look HARD for them, but why? why do others games get a free pass while others sail by no questions ask? and its for some reason always ps3 games that get scrutinised! is it because sony promised so much with the ps3? is it cos ps3 won last 2 gens? i dont know, but something is sure fishy with journalism... now some will say i say this cos im in love with sony, or a sony loyalist... this is far from true, but i say it like i see it, people have already given countless examples of the bias... i dont care what score god of war 3 got personally, and hey it got the same score on meta as ME2 PC version lol, its an awesome score, what i do care about, however, is the BS reasons some sites try to pass off! and stuff like rating mw2 graphics over gow3!

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

There are 96 reviews for Mass Effect 2 360 http://meticritic.com/games...

There are 52 reviews for Mass Effect 2 PC http://meticritic.com/games...

Do the math

Edit: below because with more reviews the 360 version got more 10s and scores above 9.5 keeping the score high. Like I said do the math.

[snaz27]

im sorry i fail to see hoe that statement backs up your argument? you see normally the more reviews there are the lower the score gets! lol, and anyway 52 reviews is still plenty to get an average... also you still didnt answer the question that meta is flawed! or are you saying that the 360 version is superior to the pc version? meta says it is! regardless of how many reviews its got! meta says 360 96, PC 94!!! so meta is flawed no? anyway dude why are you in this thread? i ALWAYS see you in ps3 articles! have you ever seen me in a 360 article? there are so many 360 fans all over this, its so funny, you hate a game you will never play cos you cant, well you could, but it would mean buying a ps3... if you did buy a ps3, then im sure you too would see the bias... you should anyway seen as you frequent the ps3 news so much lol.

[snaz27]

look at the metas for each too... 360 version has 1 review below 90, thats out of 96 reviews ok, then look at the pc meta, 8 reviews below 90! out of only 52 reviews... doesnt this add weight to the argument that the media is bias in favour of the 360? and that they inflate the 360 scores? also if pc carried on getting more reviews, are you saying the total would surpass the 360 version? even though out of 52 reviews 8 marked it below 90? you see the score would keep going down! not up!

[mint royale]

How the hell did so many people get GOW 3 already to know it deserves a 10. Please tell me!

I know this game will be amazing because its being consistantly getting 9+. Thats amazing. But even more amazing is certain fanboys reacting so badly to good reviews. Calling gametrailer, gametraitors because it only gave GOW a 9.2 is just sad. I really do feel sorry for people with that mentality. GOW is potentially GOTY and from the reviews I think that is confirmed, not denied.

ANd well done HHG again for advertising your site to fanboys by picking up on a sensationalist topic to get people on your side. Well done, you seem to fool alot of people.

[snaz27]

i however am not saying what score it deserves, be it 10 9 8 or whatever... what im saying is there should be consistency and equality in reviews for the same site, and the reasons for marking a game down should be valid ones... this is not the case tho... please tell me how you think MW2 has better graphics then GOW3, but this is technically what ign is saying! read some of the comparisons people have made, you must admit some are rediculous! now sure different reviewers may have reviewed both MW2 and GOW3, however they are from the same comapny, and im sure all the reviewers are well aware of what their co-workers have rated games no? so they should use some kind of yard stick, now if they believe MW2 graphics deserve a 10, even though it didnt even touch U2 in that department then how can GOW3 be any less than 10 for graphics? it should be what 13 or something? lmao you see its not so much the score, but the BS that surrounds the score.

[zoks310]

You have to rock the boat sometimes, the scores that ign and GS gave to GOW3 is not bad, it's the reasoning behind them.

[mint royale]

@snaz27

I see what your saying however take graphics for example. If we accept that the ps3 is more powerful than the 360 does this mean that every 360 game should have a ceiling of 8 for graphics? Despite developers who may have worked their hardest to get the graphics as the 360 will allow? After crysis 2 should every ps3 game have a ceiling of 7 for graphics?

The way you think it should be interpreted means that if its not on the ps3 it cannot be 9 or 10. I could take it further and apply that to any console game if reviewers review pc games.

IMO Super Mario Galaxy on the wii was beautiful and had amazing art design and graphics and deserved a 10 for that. However compared to HD games it still isn't anywhere near them. Should SMG get a 7/10? No! Its still my favourite game this gen but under your way of seeing things it should be regarded as mediocre. I do not agree because I play games to have fun and I had a hell of alot of fun with SMG (alot more than I did with modern warfare 2 and mass effect if I'm being honest.)

In the end what i'm trying to say is you know GOW 3 is an amazing game, I know it is an amazing game. Just play it and have fun and don't join the legions of ps3 fans who seem intent on calling everything biased even when a game gets universal 9+ (the tone of the reviews seems to be the problem now). Just play games to have fun. If you see it as a war then I feel sorry for you. From a ps3/wii/ds owner.

[Hoggy1983]

One, why is everyone moaning about the scoring when they haven't even played it yet? Particularly when its still getting 9+.

Secondly, don't use high Bayonetta scores as an example of a flawed/biased review system. In my opinion Bayonetta is a great game. And thats what reviews are, opinions. Some you'll agree with and some you wont.

[snaz27]

not every pc gamer gets the same graphics with crysis do they? i would say U2, MGS4, GOW3, K2, HR... COMPETE very well against anything on the PC in terms of graphics using a mid range PC and lets face it this is what MOST people have... so to answer your question i feel GRAPHICALLY PC and CONSOLES should be seperated from the equation... everyone with a ps3 will have those amazing gow3 graphics, you see? so YES i do believe 360, and wii should be marked down for graphics, well hell even the ps3 if a game doesnt have good graphics! you bring in art style, this is not graphics sorry thats down to interpretation... you say the wii game was fun, great so it can get marked 10/10 for fun, but graphics? imo NO... anyway my example of mw2 is multiplat lol... and look at what hhg said, apparently there is a baseball game (multi) it has some jaggies on ps3, it got marked down (gamespot), yet ffxlll got the same score by gamespot? how is that fair? all that being said, if 360 does come up with a game that trumps......

[snaz27]

.... the best on ps3 then sure all other ps3 games that comeout, that dont match or surpass that 360 game, should be marked down for graphics... this is the only way i see it as fair... i mean if you dont mark down MW2 for graphics, then why mark down GOW3? it just doesnt make sense to me, anyway its not all about graphics, i only used that 1 example, but look at the example i used about ME2, dont you think it strange the PC version scored lower? and had 8 reveiws below 90 from 52 reviews, yet the 360 version has only 1 review below 90 from 96 reviews... it all just adds up to dont pay any attention to reviews, cos the whole system doesnt make sense. and also there is a pretty clear bias in favour of the 360... and last gen dude i was fighting XBOXs side, the original xbox was better than the ps2, hands down... im not bias, i just have open eyes.

[RadientFlux]

Great logic, if you don't agree with my opinion then your bias.

I honesty though all this gaming journalists are bias would have ended last year with all the high scores that Uncharted 2 and Demon Souls received.

People/Reviewers all have different opinions on what makes a great game and there will never be a single game that pleases everyone.

[tplarkin7]

Any game that uses these mechanics automatically start at a 7. If it blows me away, I might bump it up to an 8.

I haven't played any GoW games, but if it uses those mechanics extensively, it can't be a 9 or 10.

[BrianC6234]

Same goes for game developers. I mean, you can't top a perfect, now can you? If you give Sony Santa Monica a perfect grade for their work on God of War III (my philosophy is that the studios is also earning the grade, not just the game), then you're basically telling Sony Santa Monica that there is no more room for improvement. They no longer need to refine anything."

This makes no sense at all. A 10 out of 10 doesn't have to mean anything but the game was great. It doesn't really mean perfect. Of course no game is going to be perfect. If a reviewer can't give a 10 to a game because it can't be perfect then they should change their system and say they give a 1 to a 9.9.

The real problem isn't the game isn't getting 10's. The problem is the reviewers talk about how great the game is yet still give mediocre scores. A 9 out of 10 from Gamespot? I watched their video review. I figured it would be way over a 9. It didn't have to be a 10 but at least close. I didn't see much in the video that said it was a 9.

The IGN review seemed to be by a 360 fan or something. He didn't want to give it the score it deserved. He talked about how good it was but still found plenty to nitpick on just so he could lower the score.

Neither review will change my mind but both sites show why most people have no respect for their reviews anymore.

[JokesOnYou]

I like HHG, I like his passion and I never bashed him like many of you have, but I do often disagree with him if for nothing more than his headlines, which are undoubtedly created to attract hits from the n4g community. Now once again with this headline I couldn't disagree with HHG more.

Every review can be second guessed but ultimately unless you have definitve proof of bias then the ONLY logical conclusion is that the reviewer simply hated(0-4.9), thought the game was average(5.0-7.5), thought the game was good/really good/great(7.6-8.9), thought the game was superb/fantastic experience/one of the all time greats(9.0-10)= thats the general consensus within the industry for game scoring. Now if you're paying attention nowhere in this does a 10/10= perfection, which is consistent with the thought process that a score is only a overall numerical "representation" of value/worth. A 10 indicating a gaming experience worthy of the highest value NOT indicating perfection.

There are simply waaaaay too many variables to paint all reviews with one brush. You cannot let your emotion dictate whether or not a review is creditable or not. If their is some drastic inconsistencies you do have every right to disagree, however the common theme on this site seems only to be a irrational emotional response to reviews simply because of loyalty to a brand. Furthermore trying to acess games in different genre's with like for like comparisons is very, very foolish. The variables are complex, its not an apples to apples comparison, if it were every arcade game including my favorite shadow complex should receive very low scores based on the logic that ME2 does so much more in gameplay, graphics and story so if ME2 is worth a 9.6 then Shadow Complex must be a 2.1....no, no, no it doesnt work like that. Games are reviewed for what they are, or more accuratety for how well they did or didnt live up to the standards within that particular genre. Then there's different ideologies about whats more or less important within those subcategories, then theres always factors such as does it innovate, or sometimes a game that doesnt innovate vs a game that does innovate within the same genre the less innovative game may still be better only because it has a solid formula that is excuted to perfection. Then lets not even talk about the usual comparison of older games to newer games and making ludicris comments about how the older game scored a 10 for grapics, yeah so at that time the reviewer thouht it was 1 of the best looking games so far.

JOY

[Aquanox]

HipHopGamer is a publication that goes where the fanboy waves go.

It's popular today to call God of War 3 a perfect game among Sony boys. Tomorrow, it might be popular to say how f***ed up Sony's lineup is for the rest of the year, and an article stating exactly that will surface on this stupid website.

Nothing to see here guys.

[SPACEBALL 1]

why does this game deserve a 10? good graphics?? this game still recycles old gameplay from last gen games and doesnt innovate in any way. isnt that the complaint everytime a CoD/halo game comes out??? why dont i see it here? oh yeah because its a ps3 game, and on this site the ps3 fanboys run wild. i have a ps3, but i cant stand the ps3 idiots assume since you dont like a ps3 game, you are a xbox fanboy. all ps3 games are not the next coming of christ.

oh yeah....BUTTON MASHERS SUCK!!!!!

[Jdoki]

Gotta agree with JOY.

Seems to me that people get their underwear in a bunch over AAA games cus people assume they are should be graded between 9.0 and 10 rather than 1.0 to 10.

A score of 9.6 is hardly different from 9.5 - that 0.1 is unqantifiable really. So people are complaining about bias just because GoW3 did not get a 10 - but 9.6 or whatever does not equate to an 'average' AAA title!

Reviews are subjective, and maybe GoW3 just didn't deserve a 10/10 or 100% score. I guess I'll be the judge of that once I actually get to play it. What I DO know is that GoW3 is a fantastic game - all the reviews are saying this - so what a final score (especially one where we are arguing over fractions of a percent) actually means is nothing.

What people are really complaining about here is the supposed favouritism of games appearing on a product from a US company vs a Japanese one. But here's news... Games are reviewed by media all over the world and generally when looking at metacritic and taking each review in it's individual context they are fairly accurate (for example, comparing the metacritic ratings of GoW3, Halo3 and Mass Effect 2 is completely pointless)

[Rockox]

From ChineseDemocracy:

"I read one review where the guy hadn't even played the first two games! Also, a reviewer should remain unbiased...and should clear his mind of all preconceptions before reviewing the game."

Contradictory much?

This whole stupid thing about PS3 fans crying about the game not getting a 10 is just proof once again that numerical ratings are retarded and more sites should adopt text-only reviews. But that'll never happen because people love their numbers and their Metacritic.

Fck all you crybabies. A 9.whatever is a great score for a game.

[mint royale]

Sorry snaz I don't agree and I have open eyes too. Okay separate pc and consoles but what your saying is not wii game cant get good score which is just unfair. Under your logic every ps2 gave shouldn't have got a 9 or 10 because it was graphically inferior to the best on the GC and xbox. That didnt happen though and ps2 games got good scores. I dont remember screams of bias then either.

[Chubear]

keep depending on gaming sites to tell you what's a good game to enjoy. Keep calling everyone that tells you they are ALL bought out a fanboy conspiracy nut.

Look, stop being ignorant saying "it's their opinion!!" Reviews ARE NOT opinion pieces. If they were it wouldn't read "IGN's Review of GoW3" but rather "IGN's opinion of GoW3"

There is a big difference in reviews and opinions. Opinions usually carry little weight when it comes to financial factors of a service or product. They have no set standard.

Reviews have standards (or they're supposed to). Their a method to reviewing especially with games within similar genres. You can't possibly call your self knowlegdable about VG production and say Bayonetta in presentation is a 9.5 but GoW presentation is a 8.5. It doesn't matter if it's reviewed by 10 different people cause there is a STANDARD that's being followed.

Reviews influence VGs financially, Opinions don't. Stop being a sheep and wake the "uck up to see these gaming sites don't give you proper info but rather are taking care of their bottomline. With enough incentive, any gaming site will tell you that Hour of Victory is a 9.5 type gaming experience and based on that number alone (with the same content) it will sell 20times more that it originally did.

IT'S ABOUT TEH MONEY DUDE! How can't you see this even if you're a teenager?

[DatNJDom81]

I always respected HipHopGamer even when I dont agree with everything he says. But after this, I have a whole new respect for him. He said wat needed to be said. Noone likes it when he talks the truth, but it is what it is. Keep it up HipHop. Dont let no hater on here stop you from doing your thing.

[morganfell]

Remember, GTA IV got a 10 for graphics, so according to the morons at IGN GoW III apparently doesn't look as good. Sheer idiocy IGN, sheer idiocy. Naturally they pimp a game that had exclusive DLC for the 360. And naturally they scored both versions the same even though they stated the PS3 had the visual edge.

[creatchee]

I'm not finding any reviews that I've read to be biased.

The main criticisms so far are that the main campaign is a little short (8-10 hours), the ending is slightly disappointing, and there isn't a terrible lot of innovation from the tried and true GOW formula. ALL OF THESE are legitimate criticisms. They don't really involve bias or subjectivity (with the exception of the ending).

Bottom line - does this change anything at all? Will you not buy it? What is everyone's infatuation with this (or any other game) getting a 10? Just because it is not getting straight 10's does not mean that it's no longer a must-buy or that it's not as good as others games or whatever. Just play it and love it.

I know that I will! :)

[Shepherd 214]

And the writer of this article wouldnt know grammer if someone slapped them in the face with a "piece"(not peace) of it.

So if i said i thought Mass Effect 2 deserves a 10, that wouldnt be bias, right? What about Halo 2, i love that game. Can i give it a 10 too without be called a fanboy? Certainly if anyone here can safely give God of War 3 a 10, i an give a 10 to another great game thats on the Xbox right?

[Bubble Buddy]

im just sick that ps3 exclusives have to INNOVATE and does some next stuff to get top marks while 360 exclusives like Halo 3 or multiplatforms like MW2 gets an easy pass. This is where it shows bias. I don't know how anybody can deny this.

[JokesOnYou]

Yes God of War3 does indeed deserve a 10, but at the same time it doesnt....I know that sounds contradictory on the surface and I'm not just babbling to hear myself talk, but it all just depends on what draws you into a game and what flaws matter to you the most. Note that for the most part everybody knows a great game when they see it....so I'm not one of those who will preach the "subjective" angle or the "everybodys opinion should be accepted" in the face of a terrible hit-seeking reveiw for what everybody with any sense of gaming can tell is a superb game. I'm no fool and I'm sure as hell not naive enough to believe theres no bias in the media, however I do believe for the most part a review is simply a guy with a job that score a gamed according to how much they hated, liked or loved a game. If there was some scientific formula for awarding scores then I guess we could defintively judge the merits of the review, but I imagine if there was this majical standard every game had to reach we'd be hearing complaints that the review system is broken because Heavy Rain shouldn't be docked -2.0 for no multiplayer, and Halo Reach shouldnt be docked -1.5 for a lack of interactive cutscenes. You see it would be haywire the other way around, it would also stifle creativity as devs only tried to meet/surpass set benchmarks rather imagine new innovations that count for nothing in a mandatory grading system.

Now with all that said there is still a great need for some type of consistency in scoring, but you can hardly make the case for that on the back of the almost overwhelming amount of awesome scores God of War3 has received....not unless your emotional attatchment has led you to believe everyone should without a doubt that this game is a 10, thats just unreasonable fanboyish type of thinking...also known as n4g. lol

It's similiar to trying to judge movies, everybody criteria for whats makes a great movie is a little different, on one hand you have Avatar on one hand you have The Hurt Locker, who's to say which is the best, they are so different but most people generally would say their both great movies in their own way, certainly no one could label a critic biased simply because he rated Avatar a bit higher based on the logic that all the tech combined with acting, story really wowed him while The Hurt Locker left him with the "another war movie" feeling, another critic could legitimately have a completely opposite take, they both would be just as right as they are wrong. I've disagreed with many scores for some 360 games, but I've never, ever attacked the reviewer, especially when quite frankly 99% of the time we are in the position of commenting on reviews prior to having played the retail version for ourselves.

JOY

[Aaroncls7]

Tell'em, HHG, you tell'em good!

[pixelsword]

You just don't understand what you read.

You're trying to get out of what you wrote with some cheap and defective "logic".

But if you're THAT STUPID that you need someone to hold your hand while two adults talk, then I'm game.

DailyAddict wrote:

"You don't see IGN,
GameSpot, etc. talking about other sites in a negative way, do you? No, it's just professional
courtesy. But, I forgot. HHG is anything but professional and is essentially a black stereotype."

When a DailyAddict used "and", which is a coordinating conjunction, to link his opinion of HHG's lack of professionalism to HHG's demeanor as being a stereotype, DailyAddict was saying that acts of un-professionalism (like calling out other websites) is a black black stereotype.

I posted:

"...'professional' sites not quite at the level of IGN were
attacking HHG almost daily... and most of them were white guys,"

meaning that mostly white guys were doing the same thing to HHG, so it's not a black (or white) stereotype, and later explaining that it's just business.

You just wrote a bunch of mindless garbage not worth considering twice.

If you're THAT stupid that you need someone to walk you through a simple conversation every time, then get a tutor the next time you post, I don't have time for people like you to the point that I'll be "dumbing down" my conversation.

If you can't read, don't comment on what I post, because I'll cut your hind-end down every time.

[Hoggy1983]

Your argument that reviews are not opinions is massively flawed. If its some sort of "science" then why don't the game sites that (supposedly) aren't biased have exactly the same scores and exactly the same summaries.

Every game will provoke different cognitive reactions for different aspects. Some may get engrossed in presentation whilst some may get engrossed in gameplay nuances like counter systems.

Reviews are opinions, same as movie reviews, same as restaurant reviews etc and for people to say MS just buys every website in order to downplay GOW3 by 0.5% is farcical and immature.

[Comet]

I would love to see IGN or Gamespot challenge this statement!

[trickytricksps360]

the worst i have seen is 9.3. Sierously how is that a bad score this whole argument is a joke god of war 3 rocks you were all going to get it including me regardless so why care what some journo thinks?

[JeffGUNZ]

This game is scoring very well, it's never going to be a perfect 10, nothing will be. Stop crying bias, no one here is scoring the game 5 or below. If you are looking forward to this game than that is all that matters. Back in the day, 7-9 was a very good score for games, now this generation if it's not a 10 or a 9.5, the reviewer is bias.

[Bubble Buddy]

@Jeff - Again I don't think it's people being mad that it didn't get a 10, but other games that are clearly less spectacular such as MW2 or Halo 3 getting easy 10's like there's no tomorrow. The fact is if it's a PS3 exclusive, it has to have the best graphics, perfect story, perfect gameplay, perfect online, AND innovate to merit a 10. Don't you remember MW2 getting 10's with reviewers ignoring anything about innovation. As much as I love MW2, it has a great list of flaws and BS.

[Persistantthug]

:)

[ClownBelt]

Sigh...No wonder many sites hate the PS3 community.

[Nike]

PS3 fanboys on N4G: If you haven't noticed for the past, oh, year, HHG doesn't give two craps for what you want. Only that speaking anything positive about Sony, anything at all, will give him the hits he so desperately desires. Seriously, he's just using you guys, not giving you the outside appearance as gamers but as whiny kids who can't tolerate things not happening your way.

That being said, if you still go along with him, do as you will (read: it's your own damn fault).

[Rocket Sauce]

That headline is amazing, and all the typos and bad grammar make it even sweeter.

I hate fanboys, too, but this one in particular is legendary.

[DaTruth]

I don't see the usual, "Oh, it's HHG again", or "Ban dis from teh interwebz"!

Well, not as much as we usually do!

On topic: Anything over 9 is good enough. Whether I believe it's a ten or not is irrelevant; It only matters if I care about some console war and get upset because 360 games score higher. But I would definitely be mad at reviewers if I bought MW2 for their extremely hyped up reviews and had to play the actual MW2, which is receiving nothing but complaints and bad support!

A 9.3 instead of a 10 won't prevent people from buying the game and therefore prevent my possible sequel in the future, which is all I care about!

[bjornbear]

then if you have a PS3...they hate you too?

I doubt people "hate" the PS3 community, just the community looks bad because of idiots like HHG

its sad but hey, 360 also has major morons (pun intended) and nintendo crowd too

no one is hated more than the others, if they are, its by you =)

[alphakennybody]

I do kinda agree in a way, I don't care about the scores but the ridiculous amount of nip-ticking showed in the reviews just so not to give it a 10 is really, well...plain ridiculous and stupid. The excuse "its great but it's not perfect..." "more of the same..."apply more to a lot of ps3 exclusives than the other, they use it a lot so they have an excuse for not giving a ten while games like gta 4, halo, MW2 etc... gets free pass. Anyway no score will do this beast of a game justice.

[DaTruth]

It generally comes down to how much ad revenue you give to the site. Sony generally advertises in movie magazines and men's magazines, because almost all gamers who read gaming magazines, know that their game is releasing, so they advertise to people who may not know the game is releasing!

MS knows they will get better scores if they pay a lot in ads on gaming sites and so they throw money at it just so they can say; "We have higher rated exclusives than teh Sony!"

It all really comes down to ad revenue and magazine sites holding back something so game publishers have incentive to "pay up". The non-magazine sites are just out for hits, so again it comes down to ad revenue!

[ThePlaystationFour]

The gaming journalism is corrupt. IGN reviewed MW2 Graphics a 10 while they gave Mass Effect 2 & God Of War 3 a 9.5? Seriously?

[mp1289]

they gave heavy rain a 8.5 and ODST a 9.0 in graphical quality.

[PrimordialSoupBase]

Different reviewers. It's pretty simple. You're dim.

[GarandShooter]

@ Soup

The problem isn't different reviewers, it's that there is no review guideline that different reviewers within a single entity follow. If reviews are meant to allow a potential customer see how games stack up against one another then some kind of benchmark needs to be established, otherwise they're meaningless. Simple and dim seems appropriate.

[mastiffchild]

Exactly. People forget TWO important things when crying foul over review inconsistencies. firstly-you have o think who makes up the main part of a site's readership. If it's mainly 360 owners then, naturally, there will be a slight tendency towards that console-not a bias buut, think, is it sensible for a site with a majority of it's readers having one set of interests for them to be seen to be backing the other horse more? Of course not, and it's basic business for a magazibne/site/local or national paper to look after the interests of it's readership in order to keep selling/attracting traffic n order to sell advertising in order to survive and make a profit. Also the 360 is a western console in a good positioin in the race for the first time ever and MS are the biggest voice anbd advertisers in that world-another reason for sites to be a little softer to their stuff and a little harder on the opposition. Making out that most of their readers bought the wrong console would be suicide unless the PS3 totally overhauled the 360 in the US and UK making the readerships demographic alter in this regard. Even then there's still the "local hero" effect which ,means even a failing local team/organisation will still curry a little favour from those publications from the same area-like Edge have always been with British developers and their games for example. It doesn't matter how well they're doing Edge will always big them up.

Whatever, it isn't BIAS as such and something most reviewers won't even think about any more than just understanding, at the back of their minds, who their readership is, who advertises the most and it's always llikely to be softer on those who work in the industry you cover in your area as you see and hear from them most and are likely to even have some kind of relationship because of this-it also helps you get the scoop from your local devs if you keep them sweet, no?

The second big thing we forget about reviews is that sites and magazines all have different scales(some 5/5, some 100/100, some percentages, some 20/20 and some using A/A and al;l of them use varying amounts of their scale from good to bad resulting in a 7/10 at different sites meaning totally different things!)and there's no set scale or method for scoring. It would be best if they either made us rely purely on the words(I've lost count of the recent reviews where I thought the score and words can't be related to the same game!)if they can't decide to all use the same sliding score scales for their reviews. It makes a mockery of the meta scores as a result and leaves the door open for accusations of fanboy journaism via different journo's at the same site using different interpretations of the same scoring tables!

Remember, most of the complaints about "bias" we see are to do with English language sites from the US and UK-two of the strongest 360 owning areas there are and def where there's a big lead over the PS3. That said, why would it be any surprise that these sites have a slightly softer attitude towards 360 games and Ms products? It's perfectly natural and something the sites need to have to survive imo. Also it's very slight and if GOW3 ends up with a little lower Meta as a result of being on a different platform then who does it really hurt? No one-the games still AAA however you look at it and, I imagine, if we looked more closely at sites in places the PS3 is ahead and makes more of the readership we would see the opposite leaning in attendance.

Obviously, where sites go further there could be a case to answer and the fact MS make up part owners of some sites will raise a few eyebrows(someone told me that Eurogamer was partly owned either by MS or a subsidiary)and rightly so-those sites need to be whiter than white or risk being called simple mouthpieces for MS(same of Sony owned sites doing multiplat reviews etc). Havcing said this the ONLY site I suspect of a true bias, and it saddens me no end as a fellow Brit, is Edge. Those stats that show hw much lower, on average, they score PS3 exclusives(apart from, gasp, those made by English developers)than their metacritic is pretty damning as it shows a concerted level of antipathy towards Sony platform games over a long period while their reviews for other systems remains a LOT closer to what meta would predict. It's pretty shocking but also pretty good that out of all the major sites only ONE really looks properly biased in any real sense. I have no explanation, otherwise, of how Edge have ended up in this position with Sony as none of what I've said above allows for the level of marking down they seem to have done over the last few years.

Anyway, crying about GS/IGN or 1UP is to miss the point of how sites and mags have top work and being more supportive of games most of your readers cannot play isn't great business for them and so, we see a little softening of their vies of games on the platform their readers do predominantly own and game on. It isn't like thewy're saying GOW3 is rubbish, no, they're just not allowing it to shine quite as brightly as it might and the damage is relatively tiny and easy to see through with a little thought and knowledge about how sites like these HAVE to operate in order to survive. I very much doubt, though, that any of this is thought about a great deal and will be more of a style decision made at the site which people will follow without really considering it at all. They won't be sat there thinking "how do I spin this so the 360 fans don't feel let down?" or whatever, no, it's more of a natural reaction to serve your readers a little more in the way they'll prefer and nothing much more.

Oh well, sorry to go on but I think a lot is said about this without much thought going into it but it's clear GOW3 is an amazing game but even amazing games have faults(I've never given a record or a game a perfect score in my life. Even OoT which is(or was at release) the closest I've felt a game got to using everything then available to make the best experience available still only got a 9.6(IIRC) from me)and it's here that the tiny leaning comes across-how many do you point out? How much picking goes on?

Whatever, the damage is little and doesn't make much difference, won't affect GOW3 sales and we'll see if the sites criticising GOW3 for having no MP(and after DMC4/Bayonetta/ME2 etc, etc never had this done to them it IS a little tight-I hope AW doesn't get knocked for it either as RE5 should have points knocked off BECAUSE of the awful Vs mode!)do it to other SP only games AND to MP only games from now on as it's a bit of a silly precedent to set when not every game warrants a MP mode and not all games even suit the idea-or don't yet. Point is, it's a great game, people will love it and the reviews for the past two were also a little like this as some people just don't "get" the whole genre(DMC scores are always a little UP and down as were Bayonetta's)and mistakenly think they're devoid of skill and should be played as ",mashers" when, really, to play any good H/S game well mashing is a quick way to fail massively. Mashing your way through GOW on Titan? Not going to happen and ias an insult to the game's design which allows perfectly for subtly nuanced and elegant fighting with ebbing and flowing between you and large enemy groups and larger enemies. To mash is to get less out and miss the point of a lot of these games, imo, but, even this far into the series, some reviewers clearly missed the memo that playing these games by simply mashing is a short cut to frustration as it's not how you SHOULD play them and put less in you get a lot less out. That's what I always feel gets games, even the greats, in this genre marked down at times and is the real injustice surrounding GOW3 and it's reviews.

Anyhoo, I don't asee anything like REAL bias here and think you could, by using sites in different native tongues, find a totall different result to what we see from English language sites.Only by the tiny margins that we're seeing here though-and you'll always have the odd tool who doesn't get it, was put on the game, in a genre he doesn't like by a dim editor thus making high scores unlikely and so on but, mainly, there's no kind of issue, imo.

[whateva]

God of War 3 is on a whole new level!

[JeffGUNZ]

I feel sorry you believe that. This game is scoring very well, how can you even hint at bias!?!?! Alan Wake is not going to a perfect 10 from every reviewer and you won't see any 360 fans crying bias. Believe it or not, some reviewers just like other games than you do.

[PotNoodle]

While games like God of war 3 and Mass effect 2 are complete masterpieces - they're not the types of games that make the public look up and take note, because they're not breaking all entertainment sales records and all this.

These mainstream sites need to keep up if they're being watched in times like MW2s launch and they want to keep people reading their site about the game, so they're not going to say its an average game are they?

So it isn't them underrating these fantastic games, but overrating the average ones, then the fantastic games look worse when you compare score for score.

As for the whole belief that a 10 == perfect game. Nah, not really. Many 10s equal the best in their current genre, or the best around at the moment at doing something. So i have no problem with calling games a 10 and knowing they're not perfect.

[JonnyBigBoss]

I'm with you HHG!

[Dipso]

Will God of War 3 be my Game of the Year? Very likely. Will I join HHG and his flock of bleating sheep on N4G whenever he plays his fanboy card, never.

I love how HHG likes to play his "I'm so indie, I'm a grass roots gamer, don't listen to the big evil biased corporations etc.." FFS if we were left with editorials and reviews written by the likes of this guy you'd lament professional journalism fairly quick sharp. Illiterate babbler.

[mp1289]

...Its more straight to the point about how awesome it is.

[RamiHixxy]

Wheres all the hate now PS3 fans (IM a PS3 fan aswell) but all you guys like HHG now pleaseeee HHG is a great journalist

[Torkith]

... I didn't come here for spoilers... god dammit...

[DarkTower805]

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[bujasem_89]

i mean i know i havent played it yet but how can they really honestly say that bayonneta is better than GOW it seriously is a slap in the face and i just hope that this game get GOTY so they all can screw them selves

[truebego]

I played the demo and while it did fall way short of what i was expecting,yeah.... it sure in the hell was far better than bayonetta. Which makes me wonder how did bayonetta recieve a better score from IGN whilst being an obviously crappier game.// sight

nah, who cares if it is not considered greatest game ever because of some biased sites,
GOW 3 still is Greatest games of this gen, no matter what score is.
It`s a Masterpiece.

[Dev8 ing]

Are you talking about the Telegraph giving Bayonetta a 10 and GOW3 an 8? I laughed when I saw that. They should either stop reviewing games or pull their heads out of their asses.

[Aquanox]

HipBoyGamer. Shut the f***up and respect your elders.

[Potty Scotty]

If GOWIII ran at 60fps like GOW 1&2, Dante's Inferno, Devil May Cry (Series), Bayonetta, Golden Axe: Beast Rider and Ninja Gaiden (Series), then I'd say, give it a 10. But the frame rate isn't 60 fps. The demo ran between 20 and 30 fps. Sony says the game will run at 30 fps.

[Chubear]

Any PS3 gamer that depends on gaming sites to tell them accurate info about PS3 exclusives is a fool. Any PS3 gamer that actually listens to 360fans saying anything bad about PS3 exclusives is double fool.

These guys laugh at Heavy Rain and KZ2 will they salivate over fighting Combine Harvesters as uber gameplay. You'd be an utter fool to listen to any 360fan.

If you dont' see by now that gaming sites just manipulate the community depending on what THEY want us to go and buy then you're just a sheep simpleton.

[JeffGUNZ]

Paranoid much? Jesus. Re-read what you wrote. Yeah, all reviewers are out their in one big conspiracy so people don't buy PS3 exclusives. You cracked it. Congrats! You must feel real proud and accomplished right about now. Job well done.

[badkolo]

lets shed a tear, the scores are out and the game is great, stop with the sob stories cause it isnt the higest scored game ever.

these people need to grow up.

[PS3and4_HAS_GAMES]

its not about it not getting 10s its about the reasons these so called professionals are taking away points...

8.5 for presentation??? are you serious?? a damn 5 year old can tell you the presentation on this game is incredible..it they want to give it a low score than go ahead but you better have a good ass reason for doing so...

hate him or love him hhg says the truth and i hope more people step up and call out these fake ass jurnalist

[ps12&3lover]

hate him or love him he is 100% right on everything he is saying in this video..gow3s presentation is 2nd to none..gameplay makes other games cgi moments laughable..

about ff13 getting the same scores is another thing..that bayonetta bullsh1t was gettin better scores on 360....ff13 runs in 576p for gods sake...

wish more people has the balls to call out these so called professional jurnalist like he just did

[OpiZA]

Have a cry. Reviews are opinion. If you feel it's a 10 game then that's all that matters

[Chucky2003]

a biased to PS3 person talking about biased journalism,hahahaha
k, i admit this game deserves high scores or if not at least a really good review not like that s>h>i>t that is on Gametrailers,so i will wait for Yahtzee's review,lol

[mp1289]

GOW3 = 11/10.

[OmegaSlayer]

Gametrailers review
Design...8,7 LOL

What makes me angry is that this kind of promotion for 360/downgrade for PS3 has damaged the game market.

It has convinced people to believe that 360 is a better machine, giving Microsoft a strong hold on the market, and Microsoft is the absolute King of milking ideas and keeping the market stale.
They didn't build a console with a personality (like Sony and Nintendo do), they only build a PS2 wannabe

[REALgamer]

Seriously, you make me embarrassed to own a PS3.

I watched the gametrailers review. They mentioned that it fails to bring anything new in other than the impressive scale, and that the fixed camera makes the platforming sections frustrating (and show it in the video). Combined with the fantastic flowing combat and puzzles that sounds like about an 8.7 in Design (brilliant but a few niggles that could have been ironed out).

Secondly, if you think the 360 is a bad console you're a blind idiot.

If you think the PS3 is a bad console you're a blind idiot.

I don't get why people are so desperate to try and attack eachother over console or game choice. Just because you like your PS3 doesn't mean people with differing opinions to you are wrong or 'fanboys' (take a look in the mirror, mate).

Failing to appreciate what each platform has brought to the industry because you're so desperate to justify your own purchase is childish.

We're all part of the same industry here: games.

Your quote of "What makes me angry is that this kind of promotion for 360/downgrade for PS3 has damaged the game market." fails to realize that competition is what drives innovation in any industry, forcing all sides to keep striving for greater things to get ahead. If there was no competition for Sony we could be still playing the PSone, after all there would be no need for Sony to improve hardware or games because they'd be happily making money.

Finally, I fail to see how Microsoft milks ideas more than Sony or Nintendo. They seem to all be inclined to continue any successful franchise as much as possible. Try counting the number of Ratchet and Clanks or Gran Turismos (you may notice Microsoft hasn't released a Gears of War 3: Prologue or Fable 2: Spec III).

So please, take a step back and think about what you're saying. Grow up and start appreciating games, not juvenile fanboy comments.

Looking forward to picking up my God of War 3 preorder, but wow all these stupid arguements over eview scores is almost putting me off the game.

[Michael-Jackson]

Agree with the Video.
HHG mentions Bias because of the FFXIII scores being the same while the PS3 has the superior version. XSpot, lol.

[seifer085]

I agree, these sites are way too bias in their reviews. I bet if Mass effect 1 and 2 comes to ps3 it could play better, look better and have more content and still it would score lower!

[Michael-Jackson]

Yes my Avatar is Taylor Swift...

[ipe]

when i saw mentioning halo in some reviews i knew what was happening.
Ridiculous nitpicking for ps3 exklusives but when u have garbage like mw,gta,odst 10 re flying through the roof.

[volcane]

I think reviewers should stop using a number scoring system for games and maybe use like follows:-

Bad game - do not buy
Poor game - very little fun to be had
Average game - some fun to be had, especially if you like the genre
Good game - a lot of fun to be had, even if you might not like the genre
Excellent/Must have - great game that pretty much everybody should buy.

[Chubear]

They won't ever do that this gen. WHy? because numerical style of rating helps them get more incentives and a better margin to manipulate the community.

They LOVE the number ratings cause it's good for business.

[chavafx]

and am sorry am 5 hour in and boy what a disappointment firs time playing a god of war basically the only cool thing is cinematics is that the fun people talks about this days graphics 9.4 gameplay 7.5 story 7.6 over all 8.5 not worth 60$ i will return it i soon as i finish it.. sorry but the fan boys are way to out of control i like uncharted 2 way better is more of a game unlike god of war my experience is xx wait o hold square wait wait x o o wait =??o he kills this dude next x wait up up x wait hold square press xxxxxxx=??
but the actual game play is average at best and of story

[NLshotta]

wtf? u need improve on engrish

[Ilikegames76]

played Alan Wake a few years back when it was called Alone in the Dark on the PS2. The game was so, so. All you need is a flash light.

[ssean227]

Full of sh!t much? Say's right here releases the 15th.
http://www.newegg.com/Produ...

[PopEmUp]

luigi mansion is exactly the same as Alan Wake, lol innovative my ass

[rezzah]

I remember getting Alone in the Dark (was like 2 or 3 disc) for the PS1.

[PS3and4_HAS_GAMES]

you think anyone velieves or even cares what the hell you think of this game lol..you probally never even played the demo..gtf out of here with that bs

[Erotic Sheep]

Funny how someone "seems" to have the game already, "seems" to be 5 hours in already and reviews the game lol. I'm taking one of your bubbles for your stupidity and bs lies.

[mcnablejr]

if you dont care about peoples opinions then why the hell are you looking at an article about game reviews?

[badbond1]

Wow!

[NLshotta]

i agree dude 8.5 for presentation is straight bullshit

[splinter]

Its an opinion. Thats all that matters. Like OpiZa said, if you think its a 10, its a 10. Isn't that enough?

I know GOW3 won't be a 10 from me because it just doesn't win me over. Nothing specific I can pick out with it, I just don't get the praise the series has had heaped upon it. But thats MY opinion. It shouldn't effect anyone else's opinion of the game, and if you have a problem with my opinion, I can back it up. Thats all that matters. There's no such thing as factual, objective game journalism.

As for the FFXIII / Bayonetta scores fiasco, I think the problem is that the lower resolution on the 360 version of FFXIII doesn't negatively affect the gameplay (in fact, EG's comparison showed it had better overall framerates, but then you'd bloody well hope so with the resolution lowered that much) but merely affects the visual aesthetics. Bayonetta, meanwhile, was subject to horrendous frame rate issues on the PS3 which did affect the gameplay.

[GarandShooter]

'There's no such thing as factual, objective game journalism.'

So people should stop wanting it? There should be no pressure for these 'journalists' to improve?

[seifer085]

GOW 3 is all about the epicness, I guess the more nerdy Mass effect deserved a 10 in their eyes.

I kinda want this guy to kick some ass at those bias sites, it's not like they can defend themselves.

Oh well.....

EDIT: I got a disagree already! Please enlighten me.

[authentic24]

There should be certain questions that should be asked before a reviewer even plays a game.

Things like, Is this the type of game that I would enjoy playing? reason being a non-hack and slash gamer should not review a hack and slash game.

How does the game look Graphically or technically? Is there anything that looks better? This would give a benchmark of how to grade a game in that department.

How does the game present itself, does it set out to accomplish the goal of making the person playing believe in this world that was created for them to play in?

Are the controls fluid and intuitive? are they contextual or non-contextual?

Is the story easy enough to follow even with the twist that might be added. Does it complement the Gameplay?

Can I explain the Gameplay Mechanics in my review?
etc...

There are ways to review games without adding your Biased opinion.
There are certain games that I can't stand, but I know how to be fair and objective to the point where the reader will get a fair amount of information on what the game does well and what it doesn't. Not saying that every reviewer is biased, but it seems that way when they add certain phrases to the equation.

"more of the same" , repetitive, etc.

Answer this question for me.... Should developers stop making Hack and Slash games period because they are all repetitive, it's just a matter of how well they dress the game up over it. COD repetitive, Mass Effect Repetitive, Bayonetta Repetitive, any game you can think of is repetitive, so to even say that in a review tends to be well repetitive. See my point; I mean would you not watch a movie because it's based on military life, like a bunch of other movies? You would disregard it because it may be a better Military movie. I could give you 10 movies with the same basic plot, but one may receive more accolades just because it was done better.

For all of these reviews that are all over the place, we can blame no one but ourselves because there is no standard set for reviewing a game. We will read any review well in this case give the site hits just because it reviewed our favorite game and we wanna know if the game is as good as we hoped. That is when Fanboy's Factor in. They kill any type of intellectual conversation that me you or anybody else who loves games can have. Xbox Fanboys and PS3 Fanboys alike ruin the gaming community, instead of realizing that we all love games.

I'm done. For Now.

[GarandShooter]

Exactly. Someone that gets it. There should be benchmarks in place that the varying aspects of a game are graded against.

[Tilian]

Some sort of institutional standard, yes. I agree. I have never believed this reviews=opinions bs. Reviewers must adhere to particular standards established by the industry. Thus, in theory, a reviewer who did not particularly love a game personally, would still be able to recognize its merits and grade it well, undermining any change his/her personal opinion might treat the game unfairly.

[hoops]

Reviews are one persons opinion. OPINION and thats why there is no "template" as you suggest. This is also why NO one should take the advice of any reviewer UNLESS they played the game themselves. To agree a game is perfect or crap and NEVER played it is so comical that only a 12 year old child would do this...BUT it happens all the time on this site and others because too many fanboys give reach arounds to the product they love.
How many posters on this site also said ME2 deserves a 10 or perfect score...YET never played the game and just looked at reviews?
Just as many now doing the same thing for GOD3. People that do this are lemmings. Xbox360 or PS3 or Wii lemmings.
People need to get a mind of their own and play games FIRST before making judgements.

[thrust]

an 8 not a bias 10.......lol

see what i did there ps3 fanboys.

linear button bashers with movie fight scenes and no online should not get a 10.

lol i remember i game on my mega CD that played like some of what GOW does it was a car game and you had to hit the button at the right time to carry on.

[authentic24]

don't make Hack and Slash games? How about no games? all games are repetitive. A shooter is a shooter I don't care what type of extra add ons you have. A RPG is a RPG no matter what type of leveing up you add. You sound kind of ............... I'll let you fill it in. Seriously though we should not have any form of entertainment because it's all repetitive. ALL OF IT. So with that said i guess you don't play games because all games stay true to their gameplay mechanics which make it the same ol same ol. especially when talking about a game thats within a genre thats been around for a while.

[thrust]

what i said has totally flown over your head!

[James Vanderbeek]

i didnt even know what the hell Bayonetta was lol.. i just searched it on ign.com.. this game looks horrible and cheesy. plus it looks like ninja gaiden with horrible graphics.. i just watched the video review.

why did bayoneeta on the ps3 get rated so low for havving issues compared to the 360 game. but the new final fantasy game on the ps3 is far way superior than the 360 version but got the same score as the ps3.. doesnt make sense.. biased journalism right there

anyway hip hop black brotha you speak the truth.. this game should get 10's when it comes to graphics and presentation. its the best looking game to date so how the hell and why the hell wouldnt it get 10s in that department. show me one game that looks better than this game.. some reviewers are just plain stupid. i think mw2 got 10s from ign. crap killzone 2 still looks miles ahead of mw2. and i mean miles ahead..

[authentic24]

No not really.... Name a Hack and Slash game that isn't a linear button Basher, as you call it? They all are... one is just dressed better than another. to say it shouldn't get a 10 is biased within itself. But okay. I was just trying to open your eyes.

[hesido]

"bias" is a noun, the word you were looking for was "biased"..

Please correct yourself, hiphopgamer, I know you can.

[authentic24]

you know what he meant though right? Nit picking. smh

[jalen247]

Seriously...this is the internet not English class.

[Arkham]

It's just another indicator of poor journalism. If someone wants to be taken seriously, he/she should at least be able to communicate properly.

It's fine if he wants to ghetto things up with "da" instead of "the", because that goes towards his persona, but at least get some fundamental words right once in a while. Slang is slang, but ignorance can be avoided with a little effort.

He's not alone -- most of the articles (and 'commenters') exhibit the same ignorance of the proper use of "bias" and "biased".

(At least he didn't say "sangwhich".)

[Biggest]

Too late. He's already taken seriously. You. . . I already forgot your name.

[Chucky2003]

Its my first time i really watched his show,he has some good points,but i'm happy that he's not using that damn belt,if he loose that everybody maybe will take him more serious

[James Vanderbeek]

he is using street lingo.. let the motha f'er say bias. he still speaks the truth home slice..

[Bathyj]

Say what you like about HHG, but at least hes passionate about games. He's doing this because he loves it.

Thats the problems with some of these reviewers. Noticed he kept mentioning they get paid for this. It really feels sometimes like, ho hum, I have this easy job because I have no other skills in life. I wanted to be a programer but it was too hard so I got a PC with M$ Office on it, and here I am. Might as well spit out 300 words on this game I played for 2 hours.

Half the time, they seem more concerned with the minor faults, than they do with the overwhelming goodness of a game. EDGE, I'm looking at you, you pretencious twats. HHG should get a job there. They could use someone who plays games because they love them, not because its their job.

Alot of them remind me of what on Jeremy must be like now if he had to make another film. Here I am, so jaded, been doing this since the 70's. Oh well, better screw this 19yo trollop.
Get some young blo there, a 20yo athelete and watch the mood in the room change. Maybe now the best annalogy for all here, but I think you get it.

[DaffyD]

I just wonder are any other console owners than PS3 owners crying about "biased" reviews, when their favourite game doesn't get perfect 10 in every review?

I love Mass Mass 1 & 2, but I can understand if some reviewer will give those games 9 , 8 or even 7 instead of perfect 10. Reviews are always based on personal preferences. Metacritic can give some direction how "good" game is, but in the end it's all about your personal preferences.

It's really strange why PS3 fanboys are so eager to say which PS3 game should get perfect 10 and which Xbox 360 or Wii game shouldn't get perfect 10. A good game is a good game no matter which platform it's published and in the end reviews tell only one persons subjective opinion about game. Just like it's your subjective opinion that GoW3 should get perfect 10 and some other game shouldn't get that.

[GarandShooter]

Search for Too Human review/criticism rebuttals if you'd really like to know.

[DaffyD]

"Search for Too Human review/criticism rebuttals if you'd really like to know."

What do you mean with that? I did check IGN, 1UP, Gamepro, etc. Too Human reviews and only time when word bias or biased was mentioned were when some PS3 owner did say that IGN is really biased, because they did give Too Human 7,8 points and Haze only 6 points.

I didn't find any XBox360 owners/fanboys saying anything about bias or biased reviews. Few did say that they feel that Too Human is better game than what reviews say, but they didn't say that reviewers are biased.

[GarandShooter]

You're absolutely right about the bias aspect. I was more focusing on the b1tching about a review aspect. Bubbles for catching my error!

[marcellizot]

First of all, it's not bias, it's biased. You can't say 'company x are bias', it's 'company x are biased'.

Sheesh.

Also, I fully agree that God of War III is probably an astounding game (I haven't played it yet) - a bar setter even. That doesn't mean it automatically qualifies for a perfect score.

The problem is, God of War IV will no doubt be even better than God of War III. The reason review sites don't hand out tens very often is because they have to safeguard themselves against the ever evolving continuum that games design exists within.

A game that gets a ten has to be timeless - it has to be something we can look back on 10, 20, 30 years from now and, irrespective of advances made since its release, still be worthy of a perfect score. They are very, very rare and I don't know that I can even think of one.

Personally, I'm buying a PS3 so I can play God of War III (I'm a 360 owner). That's a serious investment for a game and I'm willing to make it fully aware that while GOWIII is probably going to be one of the best gaming experiences I'll have in 2010, it won't be perfect.

9 is an amazing score - stop grousing and enjoy the game!

[Biggest]

Are you sure about your phrasing? You seem very passionate about teaching the world how to speak. But maybe you should learn how to do it correctly yourself. Right now it seems as if your company IS biased. Or maybe we can change the entire phrase around. Your company has a bias. I thought of something even better! Shut the hell up and read your text book the right way.

[PSEuphoria]

Im with you HHG.....real talk from a true gamer
RESPECT!!!...

[Arkham]

Shouldn't that be "respek"? (Ha. ;)

[horris36]

Great scores but Maybe Graphically some levels of GOW3 probally noticeably look worse than others.

[Vandan]

I literally thought to my self god this game looks Awful..... n yet it had gotten good reviews on graphics.... Bias really shows when reviewers ignore the graphical quality of Ps3 Exclusives...... Yea its strange that xboxes final fantasy wasn't given lower review scores.... not to be a fan boy but any one with eyes can tell that gow3 deserves a 10 @ graphics........ if you have button ull give it a 9

[xyxzor]

To be fair HHG has a lot of very good points. I have to agree with him.

[horris36]

Is the following true?

Gameplanet:

"The grand, epic scale the series is known for is there, but compared to the game's amazing opening hours, the rest of it feels a little too old and familiar. I honestly believe this game could have been just as good on the PS2. Sure, the environments wouldn't have been as detailed and you would fight fewer enemies at a time, but otherwise almost nothing else would have to be different".

The epic scale has been dialed up, and everything that happens on the screen is amazing. For the first two hours anyway. After that it slowly devolves into God of War II, only a lot prettier. This saddens me to say, but except for a few stand out moments they could have made this game for the PS2.

[jalen247]

That's a great example of the bias that people are complaining about.

If anyone thinks GOW III could have been done on the PS2, then they are an idiot.

The PS2 doesn't even have the memory to contain all the stuff going on in GOW III even if the graphics were reduced to PS2 levels...

If you think the PS2 can do a level on a moving NPC with the scale of GOW III, you are giving the PS2 way too much credit.

Shadow of the Colossus featured huge NPCs that you fight but they were no where near the size of Titans in GOW III and they certainly didn't have tradition levels on them with enemies, environments, etc...

And Shadow of the Colossus was an achievement on the PS2 in terms of scale...that game was pushing the PS2 something serious with some serious graphics and motion blur.

[XDF]

I remembered them. They were worshipped by PS3 fans back then when they gave out great un-biased reviews of mighty PS3 exclusives.

http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News...
http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News...
http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News...

PS3 fans are no better than Bobby Kotick. They like you if you are good for them, but will turn on you once you said "NO"

[jalen247]

GOW games are the best games in their genre. Period!

GamePlanet is a joke for what they did. I don't care what they gave other PS3 exclusives in the past.

That doesn't give them a free pass to f*ck up GOW III's review.

I have played all GOW games and I have been gaming since the NES, I can say unequivocally that the GOW franchise is the best in its genre.

And from what I have seen and played of GOW III, its definitely a step up from GOW II which would be a major achievement because GOW II is the pinnacle of its genre.

[callahan09]

If they're going to say that about God of War 3, they should just say it about EVERY game. Reduce the graphics, it could have been the same on previous generation consoles. It makes no sense to levy that complaint about THIS game, but not EVERY OTHER game as well. This game actually strikes me as less capable of being done on previous gen consoles than most other games that have come out this generation, due to the huge moving/dynamic levels (on titans, etc.) I just don't get how they come up with this critical bullshit that they're throwing out at this game. It all stinks of TRYING to find something to complain about. I'll never understand how or why critics pull that kind of crap. It's sad.

[SDF Repellent]

Now HHGamer said something PS3 fans want to hear and he apparently is GOD.

LOL, I knew it was a HHG article only by looking at the headline. Bad Grammar and "You can't make this stuff up" Headline gave it away every time.

The Leeches are sticking together.

[dtrain21]

Cry Sony Fangirls and HipHopLamer Cry......Mass Effect 2 GOTY

[OmarJA-N4G]

360 has no games. :)

[infamousinfolite]

Ps3 has no games :)

[jalen247]

I am glad someone has the courage to call these f*cks out on their biases.

Its really sad what's going on in the gaming industry with these bias ass journalists and sites.

People need to understand that Sony took a lot of bullsh*t early on this generation.

Now that they are clearly showing everyone why blu-ray is needed and why we need to purchase PS3s, some of these sites and journalists don't want to give Sony their proper shine...

HHG gave some excellent examples of these biases...but there are so many instances it would be quite a long list...

Someone should do the hard work and list them for all to see... :)

[XDF]

LOL, that is the funniest Joke I have ever heard on N4G.

HHG, get your Bullet Proofed Vest ready. IGN and Gamespot Hitmen are coming for you.

LOL, good one Jalen. You are a comic Genius.

[stridershoge]

When I initially saw the heading of this link I thought HHG was talking crap and he should realise that review's are just a personal opinion, but the more I listened the more I had to agree with a few of his points.

The thing I agree with mostly was his Presentation point, IGN needs to clarify what they mean by presentation beacuse reading form their different reviews its clear that nobody at IGN fully understands the criteria and nor do they go by the IGN ratings and reviews guidelines.

I also agree with HHG about the lack of fairness in gaming Journalism, if the journalists want to be taken seriously and expect people to believe they don't have partial views then they really do need to adhere to their rules.

I haven't played GOW3 and I cannot complain nor can I have a valid argument against what these guys have written, IGN's rating system is really dodgy anyway as the overall score is not an average of the individual scores so for example I can give a game 5 for each category but I can also give it a 10 for overall rating (go figure).

[Ether]

Theres a fine line between unnecessarily criticizing a game, and writing a fair review for the game.

Both the reviews you mentioned stay on the right side of the line.

[Neurotoxin]

Why do gamers whine so much? Seems more apparent with Sony fans.

Why does a a number mean so much to people ffs. Just play the game if you want to play it. Honestly your not going to enjoy it less because it scored less than another game.

Journalism and reviewing is fundamentally broken because
A; Its an opinion ( Which likely differs from the reader)
B; Is often skewed, biased or corrupted

Play the game, think for yourselves and don't rely to much on what other people think.

[xg-ei8ht]

What gameplanet wrote is very stupid.

Everygame could be done on a PS2,PS1,(ZX SPECTRUM,well maybe not)
Point is, it isn't the exact same game, gameplay wise or graphics wise.

If it has fewer enemies, worse graphics.

Fewer enemies changes gameplay straight away.

L4D2 is the same game as L4D, imo.

Graphics are poor tbh, even fullup on pc with aa. Glitches, no hit detection, many things wrong with it. I'd give it a 7.5

And you cannot deduct points for not having multiplayer in a game, when no online part has ever existed for the title in the first place.

Multiplayer just does not fit with GOW3.

From what i've played of BFBC2 - i'd give that a 9.

Nice SP and excellent MP.

Review the game for what it is.

ME2 Got great scores, because it actually plays the way people expected and runs well, and looks good for people.

Mario gets a free pass everytime regardless.

Halo will again get a free pass regardless.

If a game is good, then it is good no matter the system.

I tried bayonetta,demo and a friends full game, it did not pull me in. hence i did not buy it.

BFBC2 beta pulled me into the action and i bought the full game. It's that simple.

[Tilian]

HHG is rough around the edges as a journalist, but he does make some sense.

[shysun]

He has a good point on this one. Gamespot is fishy.

[XDF]

The PS3 Fanboys ranting need to stop.

Did X360 fans cry when Mass Effect 2 got a 90 from Gamespot when it is 6 points below its overall Meta avg? No, it has a total of 12 POSTS and not one complaint from X360 fans but mostly stealth trolling from PS3 fanboys. http://www.n4g.com/News-464... You PS3 Cats are such hypocrites.

Oh yea, one more thing. What was Gamespot GOTY for 2009? They are bias right so a PS3 games should not have won the GOTY award.

[shysun]

Like we said He has a valid point. Watch the pod cast and you'll understand what the problem is. Oh yeah, why are you in a PS3 article?

[OmegaWolf]

I clicked on your link and it brought up the PC review. No wonder no one commented on it. You fail dude, go get a life you f**king troll. There wasn't even comments on Gamespot's website about the PC version, much less here. I seem to remember a lot of Xbox fanboys getting butthurt over some of the lower ODST scores on this site. ZOMG! HALo IZ TEH BEST EVAR!!! IT ONLY DESERVES 10s!

[KyleChief]

You stupid f**k. Please at least do your higher level schooling before you start posting crap like this on a NEWS website... Seriously... if you had anywhere near the caliber of writing skill that it takes to even attempt journalism you would look at pathetic articles like this and laugh...

Reading half the articles on N4G these days is like watching a retarded little child struggling at a simple task. You want to laugh, but in the end its just so bad its sad and pathetic.

Stop writing, take a course, whatever, you suck.

[shysun]

Well mister linguistics, maybe you should stop coming to the site. It seems like we are all beneath you.

[Kratos_Thy_God]

these bias websites shouldnt even be allowed to review ps3 games,just 360 games,i mean what are the chances of a ps3 game to score more than a 9.6 on gametrailers if microsoft is paying them.

[suckerpunch]

I am a big fan of GOD OF WAR games, I played all of them. GOW III, aside from the visual, technology and set pieces, there is really nothing much that''move this industry forward''. The gameplay and design is almost the same as the other games in the series though very refined and polished. and

9.0 and 9.3 is mighty impressive score god dammit !

I personally think GOW III deserves something like 9.5-9.8

but 10? that game is not perfect alright, no game is, Even if it is, it still doesn't deserve at least according to IGN and Gamespot scoring system !, IGN mentioned before that 10 does not mean the game is perfectly polished. A game has to have significant innovations and even introduce something very new and very good in order to deserve that 10 !

Review is an opinion, 90+% metascore means universally acclaimed and it means if you buy this game you will most probably have a blast ! I don't buy games just by judging everything on review score, I played demo, i watched preview to get a taste of the game, and If love like it,a 90+ metascore is more than enough to convince me that my purchase is most probably worth it. It doesn't matter it is 9 or 10. How many games on the ps3 alone gets AAA metascore each year, even if there's alot are they goin to be in the same genre. So what ? if I prefer Action hack and slash game over action RPG, i will pick mass effect 2 over GOW III because ME 2 is 9.6 and GOW III is 9.4 ? hell no ! How is it IGN bias and gamespot bias ? bias towards who ? and which platform ? I remember IGN gave dante's inferno A score and gamespots doesn't reach single A ! Darksiders score is so much lower than GOW III too, Bayonetta is a different story because its combat is really really deep and just crazy good ! So what if IGN scored Bayonetta higher than GOW III ? does it mean they are bias ? i don't think so ! may be they just prefer bayonetta combats over GOW III's after all both games spend more than 80% of the time in combat !, If IGN is bias, it will most probably score bayonetta significantly higher than GOW III. It is 9.5 and 9.3, which is almost impossible to tell which game is better at all if you ask me ! Oh ya, IGN gave GOW I and II 9.8 and 9.7 !

you are seriously a very annoying PS3 fanboy, people came in the forum and hve some fun bashing each other but you are just crazy, you just have to make a video out of it ! Too bad sony gave IGN and Gamespot review codes first and not you.

If you think the game is so great, buy it and enjoy it and don't force your opinion on others. People are not as stupid as you think, If I would have spend 60USD on a game I sure will not base my purchase on just 2 0r 3 review scores. This game will sell couple of million copies no matter what !

And I wish Santa Monica make more GOWesque games in the future, I simply love them!

[KeiserSosay4788]

Lower resolution isn't nearly as bad as half the fps and ridiculous loading times(bayonetta). Btw I got xiii for ps3 and god those cutscenes are beautiful....

[suckerpunch]

and Lightning is also very pretty girl. I love her eyes. She may not be cute and feminine but she sure has very pretty face.

I don't know why everyone else keep saying stuff like "i see a man" and other crap. She's doesn't look like a man at all ! she is just a very tough looking girl, pretty girl.

[sixaxis]

yes we can talk about bias, or not being fare. but the biggest issue is that nowadays journalists lie to consumers.

this article and many ohers are great example of ff13 360 version being worse compared to ps3. but yet journalists dont lower 360s ff13 score!
http://www.1up.com/do/blogE...

i have kept my eye on multiplatform (ps3 and 360) games for years now, and its like when ps3 version has something wrong they lower the score, but when 360s version is worse, they dont. why?

[Wii360BeatsPS3]

Reviewers have been slapping numbers onto games since the beginning of time without little thought going into it. Trying to compare review scores of one game to another is just going to make your head hurt. Life is to short, go outside and live a little and forget about the opinion of some dim witted low payed stranger you don't know.

[TheMailman]

Common Xbots join the 21th century... stop being in denial and enjoy one of the greatest games of all time... buy a PS3 and all your self-esteem problems will be solved... Next gen is today!
Xbox 360 is yesterday news…

[TheTruth2009]

Do you guys remember that video a couple of months ago when HipHopGamer and N'Gai Croal were laughing like schoolgirls at the footage of God of War III that they were allowed to see?
http://www.hiphopgamershow....

Do you guys remember the article from HipHopGamer that said that God of War III could be the greatest of all time and Microsoft's "New Nightmare"?
http://n4g.com/NewsCom-4563...

Uhhhh... NO.

I don't blame HipHopGamer though. In a weird sort of way, although I think that he's TERRIBLE with his delivery, I appreciate his passion for Gaming and I think that he's good for the genre. But this is EXACTLY what the Sony Fanbase does...

OVERHYPE THE GAME TO NO END.
TELL US THAT IT WILL SIGNAL THE END FOR XBOX360.
CLAIM THAT IT WILL BREAK ALL RECORDS.
TELL US THAT "KRATOS IS COMING TO GET MASTER CHIEF".

The only thing that Kratos is coming to get Master Chief is his coffee for him. That's it.

I've told you OVER and OVER Sony Fans. STOP with the false overhype and you won't have to suffer crashing back down to Earth with disappointment when it doesn't happen the way that you want. HipHopGamer hasn't even finished the game (his words), and he's claiming "Bias" from the Gaming Press that played it from beginning to end. Amazing. He called this the "greatest game ever" after watching 15 minutes of footage. Hilarious.

So listen PS3 Lovers and Worshippers, how about just admitting that God of War III is a very good game. It's not "groundbreaking" like you all thought it would be. Is it POSSIBLE that this game isn't a great as you wanted it to be? Can you take off your fanboy goggles and ask yourself that question? And trust me, that many reviewers can't be wrong. Stop with your whiny, pathetic, and childlike claims of bias against all things Sony. Shut it up you Babies. It's a "9 out of 10 game". Nothing more. Sorry.

And the reason HipHopGamer is releasing this video is because he has egg on his face from overhyping a PS3 product that fell short. AGAIN. Don't overhype it, and you won't have to suffer the consequences and shots to your credibility. Pretty simple.

Go and study Geoff Keighley and how he performs without bias on his videos. He's a study in TRUE journalism. You could use the help.

NO ONE CARES about God of War III, HipHopGamer, OR Playstation 3. And 2010 is now REALLY a lock for Microsoft. Sorry PS3 Fans. It's over.

NOW what will you play after this game dies down after a month? You have NOTHING coming. I guess that we'll have to wait until E3 to find out. That's on June 15th. Ouch. Pretty slow year for Playstation 3.

And uh oh... Here come the XBOX360 Heavy Hitters that include Halo: Reach and Project Natal. The end is near... :-)

[The Maxx]

I agree with you 100%. However I think you give HHG too much credit. I feel HHG is the scar of gaming journalism.

[L-Teezy]

man ur delusional bu!!sh!t is always fun to read. get a life and dont act like a little h0e the rest of ur life

[The Maxx]

Come on man use your head. Look at the links that were provided. The Truth is right. HHG HYPED up GoW3 to something that can't be reached and now reality has shown that HHG biasness towards GoW3 is exactly that...it's just being bias.

Sony Fanboys have a history of OVER hyping their exclusives beyond what can be met.

You attacking The Truth without anything to counter his view is just showing that he is right and that you have no argument.

[Rockox]

Well said, Truth. I'm getting tired of Sony fans overhyping games and then screaming bias to any site that doesn't give their games perfect scores.

As for "how about just admitting that God of War III is a very good game", I couldn't agree with you more. And guess what, people? There is no shame in having a "very good game." Games don't need to get perfect 10s to rock your socks off. If they do, I feel sorry for ya.

[JeffGUNZ]

I agree with the Truth to some extent. I believe that some PS3 fanboys need to realize 9 is a great score and stop crying. HHG def. overhyped this game and he feels like a fool now that it's not scoring as high as he claimed.

I don't think it's necessary to say the PS3 is doomed. I think it should be a good year for competition.

[FF7numbaone]

Gamespot mentions in their video review that ps3 version is better because it is clearer. Theres a old conspiracy theory the boys at gamespot forums use to say.

Gamespot is 1 owned by Ms
2. Paid by ms

Seriously they have no problem rating a ps3 version of something lower.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Droids crying, what else is new? Cried about losing Final Fantasy, Tekken and DMC. Crying about the review scores of Resistance, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, SOCOM, Heavenly Sword, LAIR, WNC, MAG, Heavy (Frozen) Rain and now GOW3. Cry about being in last lace, daily. Cry about the hype around Natal. Cry cry cry = droids

http://www.kleenex.com

[kraze07]

I don't know why, but HHG reminds me of Gaius Baltar.

[DelbertGrady]

This comes from a guy who's not even capable of writing. Let alone writing a review.

[bunfighterii]

Reviews are bought and sold, and highest scores go to the highest bidders.

At least smaller sites like HHG tell it how it is instead of making stuff up because a studio didn't send its royalty cheque.

[DelbertGrady]

Only smaller sites like HHG have to give great reviews in order to get games. The bigger, established sites such as IGN, EDGE, Gamespot etc have such a large following that they don't need to rely on kissing certain publisher's @sses in order to get paychecks.

Did you miss the latest Bitbag video where HHG was happy as a kid on x-mas because some publisher wanted to give him a gaming PC? You can bet your house he's gonna give all their games perfect scores(or must have or whatever his 2-word review scores are) to all their games if he gets it. He even gave the Transformers movie game a perfect score.

[kngri]

People in this site have become obsess with this scores, please get a live, your not getting smarter or richer because the game of your choice received a 100. This reviews are intend to give a general consensus of the game, a guideline. Get a grip, stop your whining last time I check a 94 still a great and universally acclaim game. That been said prepare for one of the greatess game ever created.

Gaming FTW

[DelbertGrady]

The official brotherson of N4G is back! More retard strong & sex nuts than ever!

[Major_Nelson]

What have you been up to while you've been away
And does anyone really give a Crap that your Back
Thy Silly Little BoT

[DelbertGrady]

I was referring to HHG, dyslectic droid.

[PeptoBismol]

strikes again!

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

LOL Major_Nelson just got owned, here Nelson http://www.neosporin.com/fi... rub it on those bruises.

[DelbertGrady]

They own themselves every time they switch on their Mandatory Patchstations.

[smittyjerkins]

I laugh everytime I read in one of your comments that you say you aren't biased.

[DelbertGrady]

Find me a comment where I say I'm not biased. Just because I can give cred to PS3 games that deserve it doesn't mean I'm in bed with it or even consider getting one.

[table]

I've had my arguments with soda in the past, but he does give credit where it's due. He's one of the more logical 360 fans on n4g and is quite witty at times.

[DigitalAnalog]

Countless responses from the same type of people OVER and OVER and OVER again. Pretentious fanboys acting all mature and calm in all these "it's-a-good-score" scenario.

THEN.

Your game (exclusive) gets a higher score. You will NO DOUBT rub it in our faces stating that this (or any "good" scoring PS3 exclusive) was not up to par or standard with theirs. Sad sad sad generation for gaming. As soon as the Xbox360 starts to pick-up steam (which is a good thing), reviewers (biased) are all hyped up with hope in their eyes that the PS3 games will never surpass their beloved 360's and will do ANYTHING to make sure that will happen.

Read most of the reviews on GOWIII, it is filled with the most PRAISES and COMPLIMENTS and yet...... the score didn't match up unreasonably so.

Congratulations 360 fanboys, you've completely won this gaming generation.

-End statement

[PS360_37]

The funny thing is, its other PS3 owners who are saying "calm down its a great score." And then they usually end with, "play the game and decide for yourself."

As for people "rubbing it in..." that's just certain fanboys who exist on either side of the fanboy line. I can point to a majority of the articles where some PS3 fanboy "rubs" something in a countless number of times all while not being shy on using the "b" word. I can promise you, that on this website the PS3 fanboys outnumber the 360 fanboys 10:1. And I guarantee I won't see you on here saying the same thing for 360 games if they do get the shaft. Because you know when Halo Reach comes out there won't be a shortage of reviewers who cannot wait until they can down play Halo (if it is good). But I can already tell that you wouldn't acknowledge it if it happened. And I can just see all the PS3 fanboys approving the same type of articles and going crazy on the open zone trying to "rub" it in.

[DigitalAnalog]

I have yet to see one.

Possible outcomes of your statement:

***Looks at ODST
***Looks at FFXIII

So tell me again? I have 100% feeling that the majority of reviewers will support the 360 exclusives as oppposed to the PS3 exclusives. You've already got Mass Effect 2 for the count, now I wait for SC: Conviction and Alan Wake. NEVER MIND HALO:REACH AS IT WOULD BE "TEH BESTEST FPS GRACED THIS GAMING GENERATION". See you again soon.

-End statement

[MrBuffalo]

If you feel that 360 fans have won then fine. But get a life and get over it. Last time I checked a ps3 and a 360 were electronic devices. They dont have emotions and from what I've witnessed in my own household dont fight one another when my back is turned. Can't people see how sad and immature this is?

[DigitalAnalog]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand........ ..... what are you doing here?

-End statement

[PS360_37]

No matter what, because you are so devoted to the PS3, every review that isn't a 10 for a PS3 exclusive like GOW3 is BS even though you haven't even played it. And to add to that, every 360 game that is reviewed well is all based on biased opinion, even though A) you haven't played them and B) have no desire to try and like them no matter how good they are. No matter what happens you are going to think you and Sony are the victim.

"You've already got Mass Effect 2 for the count, now I wait for SC: Conviction and Alan Wake. "

So you have basically decided that no matter how good things games are that their review scores are going to be inflated because the reviewers are being bias? You haven't even seen the reviews or the games....does that make any sense at all? No one shafted UC2 like you are saying they all do, but somehow you won't mention that. Last time I checked a 96 on metacritic ties with ME2.

PS. Stop acting like a tool by putting
-End Statement

[MrBuffalo]

What am I doing here? Why do people feel the need to have a glimpse at a car wreck? Nothing changes the fact that your stance on gaming just isn't healthy and that goes for anyone else who is as paranoid and shortsighted as yourself.Paranoid fanboys of any variety really are the shame of the gaming community. I can understand being a huge fan but as PS360_37 pointed out no matter what happens you will always play the victim. There is no way on Earth you would ever appreciate anything bad being said about GOW3 (when the overall concensus is that its a brilliant game for gods sake!, and one which I am looking forward to playing) and should anything good be said about a 360 game then you cry foul without knowing or even wanting to know for yourself. Do you see how sad this is?

[razielsparadox]

what are/were YOU doing here?? get a life dude...or at least pretend u have 1... if u dont like what u see/hear... close your eyes/asshole ...so long.

[nizim11]

HHG is right reviews are bias. GoW is the most beautiful game I have ever seen, with Sony pushing the bar graphics like this, the game should get a higher score in presentation then 8.7. Bayanetta is a Good game but in comparison to GOW 3 if you look at GoW3 and everything that going on in the background while you play and there are no loading times. how can presentation be a 8.7 hmmmmm sounds bias to me. as far as not being able to control the camera that should not hurt game so much to push score to 8.7; well I guess if you could control camera it would get a 9.0 in presentation. While in fact presentation should be at least 9.5

[JeffGUNZ]

IMO, I don't think it deserves a 10 just because they made the camera stationary. I was hoping that would be fixed from the demo. It's terrible at times, I mean you're killing enemies off camera. I mean the game looks outstanding, but to call a reviewer bias because it's not a 10 is a complete and utter joke.

[00000000000000000001]

After playing the Demo I canceled my Amazon.com pre-order. From playing the demo I would give the game a 7 out of 10. It just wan't anything new or that good, for a 2010 HD game the camera just plain sucked.

[PS360_37]

I cannot believe that people are still using the getting bought theory when their game that they haven't played scores a 9.3 (Outstanding) on IGN.
Just like KZ2, you are so stuck on the really good graphics that everything else doesn't matter. And when some other part of the game isn't a 10 like you assume it to be, you little girls call foul.

Ohh yeah to reiterate. play the game before you give it a 10/10. I'm sure HHG played it, but who really cares what this illiterate excuse for a gamer gave it.

[Dark360]

OMG What a child...

DROID Hiphopgamer = Cry Baby Butthurt...HAHAHAHAHAHA

...Sorry DROIDS Better Luck Next Time...LOL

[redDevil87]

I wonder if any major websites will reply to this? I would like to see it lol

[DelbertGrady]

I hope they don't. HHG doesn't deserve that recognition.

[bunfighterii]

HHG is the bomb

[TheMART]

hahahahaha

I never watch HipFlopGangsters video's because its non stop nonsense, making rumours out of nothing and presenting them as facts etcetera, but I just had to see this stupid turd once more.

Lets see:

"they should call Gamestop X-stop". Well well. If we should do that, we should call you

HipSonyGangster. Thats one.

Then you say "I'm all about being fair"

WTF? You are f*cking joking me right? You are crying about IGN giving GOWIII a 9.3 (great score) and Gamespot a 9/10 (great score again), but at the same time, what does Metacritic show us? Right:

"Playstation Official Magazine UK 9/10
The game is inches away from scoring 10/10, and it's only the familiarity of the core gameplay that makes it feel less than the very, very best. But it's definitely the biggest, and if this is the finale, then God of War III gives Playstation's toughest hero the send-off he deserves. [Mar 2010, p.97]"

Thats an official Playstation Mag dude! They are biased eh? Go attack THAT SCORE YOU HIPFLOPNONGAMER! Just COME ON! Your only reason for the need to give GOWIII a 10 (and in your view, it can be nothing else than a 10, thanks so far for playing dictator over review scores, as pointed out a total subjective view of someone on a specific game) is saying: "Its doing things no other game has done before, setting bars, and therefore it deserves a 10"

Jesus, I have never, ever, ever heard such a bad reason to give a game an instant 10. Its not only about setting new bars, creating new hights, its the total package of a game also if it innovated in gameplay and more.

Its pretty easy, I am a huge GOW fan. I bought my PS3 basically for that game alone, although I got it with LBP pack because that game surprised me before GOWIII was here. I personally would give GOWIII a 10/10 just because I dig the game. BUT you totally made yourself a retard saying that EVERYBODY should give this a 10/10.

Plus, we don't need your review anymore this Sunday, was we know you'll give it a 10/10. So don't take any effort to go and stand in front of that cam again, jumping as a moronic baboon and crying "BAM yeah see that? Boom mate right in ya face! Its like you have not seen stuff before man MAANNNNNN MANNNNNN YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!!!!".

Unga bunga mate. Its all the same nonsense over and over again. If I'd train a monkey from a zoo to do your show and review games, it would be more interesting than this. If you're talking about bias and wrong journalism, HipFlopGangstershow is the worst there is.

This really should be banned from N4G, it has no news value at all. AT ALL. Rule 1 of journalism: go do your own personal view on something and stop attacking others peoples opinions. Let readers decide what they think of you and other reviews and opinions. They can see if there are unreasonable reviews, they see the Metacritic weighted average score. They see that the average score is a 9.4 out of 10, so IGN's 9.3 out of 10 is pretty much spot on with all reviews combined.

Your opinion is worth sh!t.

[infamousinfolite]

^^^ 360.. has no games that is why they can write so much garbage

[divideby0]

the reasons why they game didnt score better are the exact same reasons present in another game, which scored just as good and they were NOT considered negatives in that game...you know what I mean

[OmarJA-N4G]

Keep whining & crying bots. :)

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Seems somebody isn't paying attention to who is actually crying here

[MrBuffalo]

Dear God when will this end? If people dont want to hear an oppinion on a game then piss off to Iran or North Korea when your oppinions will be put under far more scrutiny. And surely to display bias is to be 'biased'.

[hyabusha]

I agree.

[DrRobotnik]

........C'mon SON!

[hamsterfist]

A review is nothing more than OPINION. It is always biased, that is what makes it an OPINION. You know, what someone thinks about something. You find a reviewer who has similar tastes to yourself. Not everyone will ejaculate all over themselves over GoW3.

[Biggest]

And therein lies the problem. You seem to mistake the words review and opinion for the same thing. They are not the same thing. They do not have the same definition. Someone said in another thread:

"If I wanted an opinion, I'd go ask my dad."

[horndog]

it's o.k to cry more. Just don't blow your noses on them skirts, mama kratoz would be upset.

[12qwas]

@HiphopGamer,
We do not live in a perfect world so, do not be surprised if gaming sites such as IGN or Gamespot gives GOW3 less than a 10. The franchise will continue if the game sells extremely well, in the end, there will only be sales. LOL

[rmedtx888]

How can GTA IV be better rated than GOW III? Graphics alone the game is perfect. If it plays as good as the demo. I don't see why it wouldn't get a 10/10. The story has always been great for this franchise.

[JTX]

This is my Game Of The Year and I know I will love every second of it. No lacking common sense review or 360 fan boy comments on here will change that. So by Ign standars MW2 has better graphics than Gow3 and Bayonetta is a better game than Gow3. Give me a f*****g break.

[Mamba24]

lol game of the year and you havent even played it yet. PS3 fanboys are the biggest hypocrites about being biased

[JTX]

I said my game of the year...seeing as how it's my favorite series I believe that this will be MY game of the year. All your doing is making outrageous comments calling me a PS3 fan boy when in fact Alan Wake is one of my most anticipated games this year behind God Of War 3.

[MeatAbstract]

This is a God of War game, it will be judged more harshly because expectations are higher.

A few cons of the game were mentioned in several reviews. The puzzles don't try to mix it up a little with the exceptional few that may stop you in your tracks and think about it for a minute. The weapons are ok but are pretty much the same as your blades and the plot is paced poorly.

Whether these are true or not I'll find out for myself when I get the game but these came from gamers with their own opinions and they yes people they are entitled it.

[led1090]

Come on people don't be stupid now. Its just an opinion. Everybody is entitled to one. You should stick to yours and not give a flying intercourse about whats others think instead of criticizing someone else's opinion cause it is not the same as yours. Thats just idiotic. Again, its just my opinion!

[tiamat5]

I don't mind reviewers being honest but most of their honesty only seems to apply to PS3 games. Why is it PS3 games are always being ragged on about story while other games with the most plot hole filled, ludicrous, unbelievable,cliched ridden stories get away scott free? Or PS3 games like Ratchet and Clank always get accused of same old game play while tons of Mario and Pokemon games do that and get perfect scores almost every time. PS3 games are kicked around for having minor glitches like in Heavy Rain but MW2 with a glitch almost every week still sold billions of copies and still given a high score by everyone. Only fanboys and people with there heads stuck up their @$$es are the only ones who can't see that the only reason PS3 games get such harsh reviews is because they are behind everyone else. If they were number one they wouldn't get so much scorn. It's not a honest game review these days.It's a popularity contest

[NeloAnjelo]

Someone shut this guy up please. Remember is 1000 out of 10 review? Uncharted 2 wasn't it?

Who gives a dam about his GOW 3 review. Man I wish I had time to dedicate putting out a show. Anyway... I'm out.

[yogaflame]

reviews are always depends on there OWN OPINION AND TASTE, but still honestly it is still a good scores, good job

[bjornbear]

HHG AND HIS CREW ARE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED

JUST READ THE TITLE

MON-GO-LOIDS

[Keyop]

Reviewers are human, they have likes and dislikes, some prefer one genre to another. There's no way everyone will give perfect marks. I review PS3 games and can tell you categorically if I reviewed GOWIII it would not get a 10 from me. I can see how it's graphically stunning, but's it's not my thing at all, so wouldn't get a top score.

Look at many reviews, get a meta score, then you really see what a games rating is across and range of reviewers and their different takes on a game, without trashing one or two because the reviewer happens to have a different opinion.

[yogaflame]

Well we cannot do anything about bias websites or MS lovers, expect a hight score be given to halo reach and alan wake, but hey, deep in all our hearts and most non bias website knows GOW 3 is the best game ever. Let us not be affected by negative reviews or opinion OF OTHERS, we will not be happy if we base our decisions on reviews or awards

[Mamba24]

if those games are given high scores, it couldnt possibly be because they are good games right?

[Garrison]

I own all 3 systems but really, anyone who doesn't see the logic in what the hip hop gamer said needs to take off their xbox logo having underwear and rethink how they view life as a whole.

WHEREVER YOU HAVE JOURNALISM THERE IS ALWAYS BIAS. PERIOD. JOURNALISM will most always be just propaganda for something. Even your local newspaper might be influenced by the mayors office and cash giving political parties. Only an Idiot or a naive person would think otherwise. Of course there are going to be meaningful and thoughtful things through it but you have to find it thorough the sea of BS in it which covers 98% of the magazine/paper/tv show.

You think Videogame reviewers come straight from heaven and deal out the most Fair and Honest reviews about any medium on the face of the earth? Not going to happen. All these guys have BOSSES, people who deal with Marketing divisions for money,who deal with Investors, the money flows so they can get their exclusives and advertisements and deals which influences their scores.

Of course a review can start like: "This game uses the same tired formula" from the playstation review while the other from the same reviewer can say: "This uses the same winning formula!" on his next review from a xbox title or whatever system they want.

But but but... it's just opinion! = The ultimate shield in which to hide anyone's BS under. An opinion does not make a thought RIGHT.
Hitler had a really honest (to himself) opinion that Jews were a plague in this world and he went and murdered millions of em. But hey, he wasn't wrong he can't be.. it's just an opinion! (One in which he gave his propaganda and convinced his nation that it was RIGHT)

When you have an opinion you just have an opinion on something, that's all it is. When your opinion goes out the public for whatever purpose then it's propaganda, your out there giving your view on something and in turn making people think your RIGHT.

You don't wanna read someone's BS it's simple. Stop clicking away at it problem solved.

[Kluv]

why does the scale go to 10 if you can't ever give a 10? IGN and gamespot both give 10's but neither of them consider a 10 perfect. cars get rated 5/5. movies get rated 5/5. games can get 10/10, they don't have to be perfect.

[corneliuscrust]

It's BIASED. Not BIAS.

One can have A BIAS, or BE BIASED. You cannot be bias.

If you're going to throw the word around all day, at least understand what it means and how to use it.

[tavo1117]

I really don't care about the scores. I mean, MGS4 is the best game i've played and it has the same score in metacritic that GOW3. So, i'm pretty sure that it'll surprise me as well.

[KiLLUMiNATi_89]

There are way too much cry babies here. 9.0 n 9.3 are really good score.DNT ever argue with professionals they see stuff dat we dnt see. GOW3 looks good come on FAN KIDS no way dat game is perfect. RETARTS stop bringing up gta4 n mgs4 up cuz dey got perfect scores understand thats was in 2007 n 2008, we in 2010. ITS different gta4 n mgs4 were good games for dat time so dnt compared gow3 to it its pathetic. Compare U2 n gow3 that'll make more sense. Even tho i knw U2 is way better den gow3.

[JTX]

I guess when all that people have to resort to is grammar correction HHG must be saying something right.

[Arkham]

Agreed. He's built up his persona and brand very well, but he could be taken more seriously if errors like "bias/biased" were cleaned up.

Those aren't part of his street cred slang, they're just stupid mistakes.

[Tzuno]

Relax everyone the game is not even launched and nobody has played the game and all of you scream that it deserve a 10 because you see 20 min. of gameplay. Maybe the guys that make the reviews have access to the full game and they know what they tell when they open their mouths.

[Rowsdower]

Bias is a term used to describe a tendency or preference towards a particular perspective, ideology or result, when the tendency interferes with the ability to be impartial, unprejudiced, or objective.

Journalism is the discipline of collecting, verifying, reporting, and analyzing information gathered about current events, including trends, issues, and people, which is then published or transmitted through media such as newspapers, periodicals, television, radio, and the Internet.

Review is an evaluation of a publication, such as a movie (a movie review), video game, musical composition (music review of a composition or recording), book (book review); a piece of hardware like a car, home appliance, or computer; or an event or performance, such as a live music concert,a play, musical theater show or dance show. In addition to a critical evaluation, the review's author may assign the work a rating to indicate its relative merit.

In case people dont know what words mean.

[mcnablejr]

Bayonetta got a 10 so i am not suprised by anything anymore no matter how ridiculous it is.

All this game says to me.. a bit like heavy rain is.. RENT ME./

[BrianC6234]

I'm confused by the Gamespot review. First I watched the video. Then I read the whole review. I don't see any reason from either for it to get a 9.0. If anything it seems like at least a 9.8. Does the reviewer give the score or does someone else? It just doesn't make sense.

[solidt12]

I feel like you are speaking for me right now. I was so p'd off when I say the scores from IGN and Gamespot. WTF are they smoking.

[The_Nameless_One]

I was never a big fan of HHG. I never hated his show or anything like that but my feeling towards him was always kinda of a meh but what he said here does have some merit. I always felt some reviewers, while not being biased, have a sort of double standards that always irritated me.

[RagTagBnd445]

So a reviewer is biased because they don't give a PS 3 exclusive 10? No, just no. I can agree that scores below 9 are strange, and that reviewers who think Bayonneta is better are biased. But realize it, God Of War 3 is not perfect, no game will ever get or deserve only 10s.

[N4realGMRZ]

And what silly people to question anyones opinion....you dont see any of these trolls saying the same thing about FF13 do you? Silly people.....

[MMFGaming]

"if someone literally slapped them in the face with a PEACE of it."

I lol'ed.

[GameScrubs]

I love coming to the comment section just for the lulz

Keep it up guys all this none sense and crying about silly numbers is grrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat.

I love the fact that you completely feel that your opinion is better than others.

Crying over xbox reviews over ps3 reviews is wonderfully stupid.

The mere fact that a game you adore so much has 1 point defect over other games, automagically makes that game complete and utter trash and you must save it from it's damnation.

How MS has completely bought all journalist on the internet.

Comparing completely unrelated games to prove points.

Comparing games that are years old to this new game that you haven't even played and crying about it.

Awesome n4g awesome.

[shysun]

He only named one game. He could have easily named 20 games that were ported to PS3 and received a lower score. If you think for one second that to those of us who own both consoles, the score of a mutiplat game doesn't matter...then you're f'ing crazy!

I've bought plenty of games on my 360 because the reviewers thought it was the better version and the score showed it. If I didn't know any better, I would've bought FF13 on 360 but I know the PS3 version is the better one, so I bought it on PS3. They need to keep it fair and let us multi console owners know the truth, no matter which version is the better one.

[waljaber]

i and my friends stopped paying money for this biased sire long time ago and i thank god for N4G.

[Treyb3yond]

The so call gamer websites who make a big thing out of the "worse" version of Beyonetta on PS3 and do not even mention the "worse" version of FF13 on 360.

As for GOW3 getting an 8 for presentation, it's just a bad joke. And yes gametrailers.com I'm also looking at you.

Just continue to market down sheer quality, in the meantime the real gamers will continue to laugh at your sorry asses.

[ll_UNDERSCORE_ll]

This is one of HHG's best show! 10/10 for the post.

[ChickeyCantor]

I want to be with you, and make believe with you in irony, irony, O love!!!!!

[razielsparadox]

I am so hyped right now...cant wait...great vid!..hiphopgamer...is really for the win

[bobrea]

I hate HHG, but I might actually agree with him here based on what I've seen from the game so far (And GoW being one of my favorite franchises :P)

[SephireX]

Just because a game gets a 10. Doesn't mean it actually is perfect. The score is rounded off. It could have gotten a 9.95. Anyway, people are too concerned with review scores. Every reviewer has a different opinion and also reviews games differently and each review site has many different reviewers. God of War III seems to be getting a lot of 9/10 scores so maybe that's an accurate score. If you think it deserves a 10, why do other people's opinions matter? Play the game first, then decide on a score and who cares what everyone else thinks after that. God of War III seems like a great game but I haven't played it so I can't give an opinion on whether it actually is a great game or not. From the reviews, it certainly looks promising but it doesn't seem like it tops Uncharted 2. Then again, when I play it, I might think it tops Uncharted 2 but for now I can only assume. Scores are just opinions and its the opinion of the player that really matters.

[ClosingRacer]

I bought a ps3 for God of war 3 and guess what now i ain't getting it ( well in the near future will be playing FF 13 for a while which is a 10 for me) i played the demo and eh i wasn't impressed... I liked the first 2 and the psp game but eh now it feels as old as Halo does..If is patched up ( the story which i can believe it doesn't deserve a 10) And from the demo i would base a review of the game a 9.5

Anyways how are you complaining about a 9.3 from ign when 9.3 is a great score.... Do note Games are never perfect

[rezzah]

This isnt a new thing, its the Bayoneta (DMC rip off) got 10 comapred to this game thing. Thats what its all about.

Though I personally think this game deserves no lower than a 9, I dont care as long as it does well in sales (which is good for the developer and helps the system in its own way). But of all games seen so far this year GOW3 is something everyone must experience atleast once, even if its not your style just give it a try. Becasue its just the way the game looks, nothing has been done like it before.

[Ron Zook]

didnt hhg give the transformers game a 9/10? rofl he probably thinks every game thats playable on his ps3 is a 9/10 or better

[wong3233]

I feel like a bad person for liking my xbox. My thing with fanboyism is really the unnecessary degree of severity. I really shouldn't be feeling attacked for simply liking another system (the xbox) or another game (mass effect)

On topic. God of War does indeed seem like a great game, and I agree with some of what has been said previously, reviews should most probably be give +.2/-.2 discrepancy, meaning GOW3 with Metacritic score of 94 is in the AAA class games for sure. It's hard to distinguish superiority between AAA titles.

As to whether GOW3 should deserve a 10 (which it got plenty of) I'm probably not the one to judge. Ultra violent, and extremely American games don't really appeal to me (not a bash just a matter of taste). But I'm probably missing out on something great if I would be willing to pick it up.

Anyways, here is to not spreading too much hate around. I'm sure the journalist don't appreciate it either.

[RageAgainstTheMShine]

until I gave Uncharted 2 a try.

Now my respect for American games equal that of Japanese made games.

[bigboss777]

id give hiphop gamer a 10 2 and i also think GOW needs a 10 and on top of all that it has to be game of the yr,ff13 just came out...u no what it smacks 13 in the face...yeah i said it im just being real.for what i seen on God of war......beautiful

[LinuxGuru]

While he occasionally makes valid points (read: occasionally), his (and his staff's) spelling and grammar are so horrible that I want to rub steel wool into my eyes every time I see one of these butchered things floating around N4G.

Seriously, hire an editor HHG. You need it.

[crazydrummerlad1]

EXACTLY how i felt after seein all the reviews. ive felt this way for a while but they cant mess wit my precious gow3

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Wait, is he really saying that if you scored this game any less than a 10 you are automatically suspected of bias?

Where did the PS3 fans get this wacky sense of entitlement? It seems like if a game looks pretty it should be an instant 10. Sony has turned their entire user base into graphic whores that put it first and foremost above all else. Is this because the sales argument doesn't work like it did last gen?

Reviews are a persons opinion and not everyone is going to like the same things.

As the great Clint Eastwood once said: "Deserves got nothing to do with it".

[Yomiro]

from Technical and TLC labor standpoint all reviewers should agree, story telling, plot and the rest...is opinion.

[abc1233]

HHG has totally lost all respect from me.

First off, he is a hypocrite. He talks about bias in reviews and yet he says that if mass effect 2 got a 10, GOW should get 25,000. Also, half the time he wasn't making any sense at all and it just seemed as though he was defending GOW3 due to his PS3 fanboyism, which btw is bias. Secondly, he just seemed like a whiny little kid who got a 99% on his test but wanted 100%. Dissing other game reviewers is just totally unprofessional and I have no idea how he is still allowed exclusive access to private game-related events.

Don't get me wrong, I love my PS3 but it's people like him which give us 'normal' PS3 players a bad image. They say that xbox fanboys are the little children who need to go through puberty, but watching this video, other people may think otherwise <_<

[samchris]

I can't help but wonder how much of this criticism aimed at the HipHopGamer is racially motivated. So what if he used bias versus biased. Some of you critics couldn't spell your way out of a 5th grade spelling bee.

Uh, did I just play the race card?

Just a thought. Disagree if you must.

[A_doc]

I do not know what the fascination is with a perfect score and claims of bias when it comes to every hyped up game that comes out. Does everyone forget what the point of these scores are? Review scores are meant to provide the potential buyer a comprehensive idea of how a game plays and how fun it is. Any scores above 95 mean it is a game that is well worth buying. WHO CARES ABOUT THE DISPARITY FROM A 95 TO A 100. You want bragging rights for your game fine, talk about it in your blogs, but don't complain about why your game is a 9 instead of a 10 or whatever scale on a site where potential buyers are looking for unbiased advice. Scores of 90 - 95 mean it is a great game but not a must have. 80 - 89 means it is a game that is good but you could just wait the game out until you can get it cheap. Lower scores than that mean to the buyer that you could get it if you want to but many other people won't be playing it. As for the individual games, people complain about bias and then compare scores from other games. THAT IN ITSELF IS BIAS. You cannot complain about other games' scores in a review. Reviews are meant solely to rate the game as if it and it's predecessors are the only games in existence. That way the reviews are based off of any bugs in the game, the modes in that game, how the game has improved or not improved on its predecessor games. AS SOON AS YOU COMPARE A GAME TO A COMPLETE OTHER GAME, in comes bias. Does this happen in reviews yes, that is unstoppable. It doesn't mean everyone has to make it worse and start complaining about it because in the end, it means NOTHING.

[olos]

while im not a big god of war fan or anything
i i do see bias all over the place as a person who buys games quite frequently for most systems

i see reviewers pointing flaws with sony games more readily whiel overlooking them constantly with xbox and nintendo games all the time

2 big games that seemed to have whitewashed reviews in spiteof theri obvious flaws upon playing them are Mass effect 2 and new super mario bros

and modern warfare is another
as well as madden

do we really need annual update full releases fro so many games??? and to give them above 9 everytime only seems to fed the fire

i think reviews are arbitrary and so are opinions btu it seem soem review site Game trailers and ign are the worst .....seem to look for flaws in certain games while ignoring them in other games

[c64days]

IGN,GAMESPOT AND GAMETRAILERS are biased sites, and whos not seeing that hes blined.

I still remembers the days when all those sites killed every PS3 exlusives just becuse they were PS3 EXLUSIVES.

Remeber HEAVENLY SWORD? Remember Lair?

Lair was totaly distroyed just becuse the reviuers dicided to kill it and they used the SIXAXIS as an exuse.

The sad thing is - the PS3 owners are so afraied of bad scores that they happy to get 9.2 score for GOW3. If GOW3 and Uncharted 2 and Killsone 3 did not get 10 for the ps3, then nothing can get it.

I mean sony put every thing it can to bring those game to maximun level and they yet to get a perfect score.

If IGN gives GOW 3 8.5 for presentation, then the fight is lost.

Those sites killed HEAVENLY SWORD. This game was the best hack and slash game i've played after GOW3, and i really love to se a sequel, but unfurtunatly we will not since the game did not sell well, and you know WHY!!!

[cheameup]

dude heavenly sword and lair both sucked. Lair sucked more but still they both sucked

[iPad]

And this is why I search <insert video game title here> Review on YouTube by everyday Gamers!!!

[hoops]

This game could be EPIC...Notice I said
"This game could BE...."
Because I like everyone on this site and other sites NEVER PLAYED the GAME to state wether this game deserves a 10 or not.
In other words, how can ANYONE not playing a game SAY it's CRAP or perfect? Or are you people just lemmings and believ e everything someone tells you because it suits you?
Before anyone can say this game deseves a perfect score, THEY MUST PLAY IT FIRST.
This is like a movie critic giving a review of a movie perfect scores and great accolades....YET never seen the movie and is only saying its great because OTHERS tell him/her it is. Imagine this conversation:

Movie Critic: "Avatar is the best moive ever made. Truely EPIC! This movie is perfect in every regards! The new standard of movies!"

Consumer: "Wow! The movie sounds AMAZING!!! What part of the movie really stood out for you to make this the best movie of all time?"

Movide Critic: "Hmmm...I don't really know.....I never saw the movie....."

Consumer: "What???? Then how can you say its the best movie of all time if you never watched it?"

Movie Critic: "Hmmm...Because Everyone I know who saw it says it is and so did the company that produced it...and other reviewers....So it MUST be the greatest!"

See the point here ladies?

Wait until you play the game folks before you agree that this game deserves a perfect score...In reality NO game is perfect and NO game should get perfect scores. Not Halo...Not ME2...Not GOD3...Not ALan Wake...Not Heavy Rain. None.
If GOD3 is anything like the GOD2 then it will be close to perfect then..But we don't know...None of us except REVIEWERS has played it.
Let the disagrees begin

"Remeber HEAVENLY SWORD? Remember Lair?

Lair was totaly distroyed just becuse the reviuers dicided to kill it and they used the SIXAXIS as an exuse."

C64days, LAIR was a terrible game on a technical level and linear to fault. It was not just controls. The frame rate was actually some of the worst I have ever witnessed in a game since 3D rendering came into effect. There were times when frame rates dropped below 10 frames per second. What game did this?
Btw. Who gives a RATS A** about scores anyways? Do you work for Sony or MS to care what ONE person's opinion is? If you love the game it won't matter if it gets a 10+ or 1-....It's YOU the person that is the judge. Not one persons or websites opinion. Don't be a lemming like all the fanboys on this site

[cheameup]

I dont how GOW3 is pushing anything forward . Its a button masher . A great one but still its a rehash of an 25 year old genre . I wont be buying GOW3 for my ps3 cause i dont like the genre .

Cracks me up that people expect reviewers to love everything they do .

[Anarki]

What this guy says is true....

However, it's just his wording which needs to be improved.

[xer0]

For once, I totally agree with your comments Hip Hop Gamer.
Some of these reviewers don't even deserve to play God of War 3.

Lets await - Edge's review of God of War 3. Seeing as they saw fit to give Bayonette a perfect 10.

[Xander756]

Why do PS3 fanboys consistently whine about how PS3 exclusives should have been reviewed higher? How can a 95 NOT be good enough?

[rezzah]

i dont agree with the not agreeing with a 9.5 and only ten part, but let not focus on that (something everyone seems to be only looking at). What he complains about is the downplaying of the game, like how he said they are lookig for any reason to say something bad. Besides when he stated the reason that they gave as cons, they did make no sense. Basically saying one of the thigns that made this game great (riding the back of titans climbing Mount Olympus) wasnt good enough. Even though it was never done before in gaming history. The game did set the bar limit at such an amazing hight, yet for the reasons it does its bashed on (except for the camera, i can see why ppl dislike it).

Those same reasons, like he said, cause the game to get a lower score. OH i think i know why he says it deserves only a ten. Because the score is the game basically, and to him this game is perfect in every way. Nothing has been done lile GOW3. Makes you wonder when you see this getting a 9.3 or w/e and then the same site gave something like Bayoneta a 10...BAyoneta, which has brought nothing new except the idea of ripping off DMC, of course its own story (anyone enjoy those cut scenes?), and finally bringing softcore porn into slasher games. (my thoughts ---> Inferno rips GOW, Bayoneta rips DMC)

[Silly gameAr]

Spolier HHG!

Just fought ......! Come on man.

By the way man, you're right. When you're reviewing a game, you look at that game that you're reviewing and not compare to other games. That irks the hell out of me with reviews.

We need more people willing to call these bulls...ers out.

[Doletskaya]

I really agree with him this time.Some of the negative things reviews said about GOWIII just leave me scratching my head.Some of the scenes I have already seen in GOWIII are PS4 stuff,period,but instead these reviewers just seem to only focus on nitpicking some smallest details and make them a huge deal.

[rezzah]

A game that pushes the limits of all games ( i have no clue about Crysis) on every system (excluding PC cause of crysis). I dont know about the marks given by jounalists, but their reasons are bs. Same thing HHG said, his reasonings. It really seemed like GOW3 was being bashed before this vid came out. Even some people in N4G recognized biased reveiws, yet when this guy (HHG) mentions it to everyone they disagree.

Not 100% sure if this guy is biased, havnt seen how he reveiws 360 games, or talk about/agaisnt the 360. However he does talk more about the PS3 but he doesnt openly say that it is better than everything and will crush w/e comes into it's path. I think people are making im out to be a bigger fanboyu than he actually is, 2 things: 1 he doesnt act like an ass and disregards everything the 360 (that does stand out in its own greatness) has (Live, games, w/e else there may be). 2, when he states something....He gives reasons to back it up/ No, not reasons like PS has been out longer than the xbox. They are reasons which he personally looks into, just just say BS that jumps to the top of his head.

He may seem like hes saying BS, you may not like the way he is/talks (i was very annoyed at first), but in the end he has decent and reasonable reasons to back up his claims.

[dennisannamant]

a nine hour game does not deserve a ten.i dont care how good the the campaign is. god of war 3 is a great game but its just god of war 1 with the most amazing graphics and crazy production values.theres nothing groundbreaking about it.the last amazing game i played was mario galaxy and it didnt need high production values.it was ground breaking and its the best reviewed exclusive of the generation

[Drac]

Personally, I've given up even going to the big review sites, as I lost complete faith in there abilities to review any game.

Now I just check out the smaller blog type sites that don't even post a score, just an opinion. Maybe if we all stopped going to or buying there mags they'd just dissapear :)

[A7XEric]

So the guys at Gamespot and IGN are ignorant retards because they didn't give the game a perfect score even though they gave it a 9+ score? Get out. Just because they aren't on their knees with their mouths open at Sony's feet, like HHG is, doesn't mean their reviews are "biased" or not objective. And on the FFXIII issue, the slight color desaturation of the graphics and poor compression of the 360 version isn't enough to warrant a .5+ point difference between the two versions. If it doesn't seriously affect the game (see Bayonetta) then there's nothing wrong with both versions having the same score.

Anyways, stoked for GoW3, i wish this guy would go away though.

[egm_hiphopgamer]

OH MY GOD I said the game deserves a 10 I never said that everyone has to give it a 10 but in my opinion the game deserves that across the board. Now the reasons points were deducted especially with the IGN and Gamespot sites were horrible, and I blasted them for it because it was stupid and they shouldn't even review games if there reasons don't make sense. You mean to honestly tell me that god of war 2 is more diverse than god of war 3, then also you mean to tell me that god of war 3 doesn't pick up until the end, that's all wrong trust me on that

[PLAYSTATIONGENRATION]

IS real and is a damn shame........But Look at Fox News and Cnn how they always report negative stories about health care reform and very few about the other side...(

[devilSPAWN1977]

I personally believe that the moving levels on top of the Titans while the other titans are climbing mount Olympus is innovative on its own

[megaman4life]

actually ff13 now has a higher score on xbox than ps3, by 2 points. soooo, what good is metacritic..

[yogaflame]

in the end IT IS JUST THERE OWN OPINION WHETHER ITS BIAS OR NOT, deep inside we know the game is the best looking game ever

[Xi]

A biased gamer asking for a non bias review...

[Another One]

I found the title to be extremely ironic considering what site it's coming from.

God of war 3 may be one hell of a game (the first two certainly were), but to basically say it deserves a 10 or you have a bias is extremely idiotic and, well, clearly shows a bias on HHG's part.

[stuntman_mike]

He makes some good points and its what ive been saying alot recently the scores dont match the written reviews. The final fantasy thing was a joke ive played both 360 and ps3 versions and the 360 one is poor in comparison and not deserving of the same score (just like bayonetta, orange box ect, on ps3).

To be honest i dont think scores are there as a guide to buying games anymore, they are just there to score hits for gaming websites to rake in the money.

[cacaboy69]

Yo HipHopGamer man thats what the F*ck I'm talking about I respect what you do and I respect your opinion my dude your voice is real. Let me start of by saying I'm from the hood just like you and love gaming/hiphop. I know you get alot of hate but yo don't let nothing stop you from what you do keep doing what you do my G. I watch your shows on Sundays n I love your passion for what you do. Now Yo, I know exactly what you talking about dude like man these game critics they be D*ckriding hardbody and 360 reviews n sh*tting on the PS3. I've played Mass Effect 2 its okay but its not hot.

Now my thing is yo do a research and findout a game that both the prick and douchebag gave a 10 to I need to know foreal.

********I lost respect for Gamespot and IGN*********

I was blown away just from the trailer. So how the f*ck this Sh*t is Happening to such a game with swag.

[WLPowell]

... all these same media outlets saw to knock points off Uncharted 2 for retarded reasons, AIAS came along and uncharted 2 cleaned house. (same with Little Big Planet) Eventually people will see these sites will consistently be wrong about judging what's a good game, and hopefully (several years into this gen) people will GET THE F*** over Sony's E3 '06. (bear in mind the people who are totally over RROD, just won't let E3 06 go) I honestly hope that gametrailers just switches to 360 only reviews until they hire someone besides SHARTerfield to do reviews. After his moronic "games that don't do anything new won't recieve over a 9.3 and that's why U2 got that score... MW2<9.3!" speech, he shouldn't be allowed to speak publically.

As it's been said before the "it's my opinion" excuse should be grounds for that reviewer to be put on medical leave until their fanboy flareups clear, any reviewer that hides behind that shouldn't be getting paid or have the title of professional critic. These "professional critics" have been knocking down noteworthy examples of what's possible in the medium, just because it's not on their favorite system.

Then these same morons turn around and wonder why games like Pschonauts, Okami, Zone of the Enders, and Shadow of the Collosus don't sell well. Let's try being honest, m'kay?

[Acetaminophen]

I stopped trusting IGN a long time ago. The fact FFXIII gets the same score on PS3 as the 360 should be proof enough. The 360 version has many discs, gigs and gigs of space to take up and the visuals are compressed;Clearly it is an inferior version and should be marked accordingly. That should be proof enough to people to look elsewhere for game reviews.

[SCW1982]

I agree with what he is saying about credit needs to be given where it is due. I really have no respect for IGN or Gamespot. Disagreed with to many reviews in the past, but he did mess up saying that god of war 3 didnt have any pre rendered scenes. OOps.... I just think it was the heat of the moment thing. And for all the Xbox community he did give a shout out to XBL so you cant say he is a FanBoy. He just wants people to see and recognize greatness.

I am just gonna plug this real fast. I Respect GamesRadar and Gameinformer more than anyone when it comes two Semi Popular Gaming Outlets.

[Len92]

he made some valid points like presentation being an 8.5 is laughable. I dont worry too much about Gow3 reviews not being all perfect but we all know that the game is not an 8/10. definitly 9/10 minimum. and stop hating on hhg, half of you probably didnt watch the show and just hate because y'all racist. a lot of white folks are still racist as fuk even if them dont show it, you can just sense it, so fuk y'all

[PS360dagreatest]

Its Gametrailers aswell, Look at these BIAS review scores

Halo 3 9.8
Gears 2 9.5
Mass Effect 2 9.7

Oh and look!

Resistance 2 9.1
Metal Gear Solid 4 9.3
Uncharted 2 9.3
GOW 3 9.3

That is Bullshit, GameTrailers Havn't given a PS3 game over a 9.3 this generation.

THIS MUST STOP!

[The real killer]

The 360 fan girls don't know what he talking about, It's about FAIR be FAIR you stupid little sick 360 fan girls make me sick.

All over the place review site talking about multi crap in two separate reviews, but when FF13 get a review we see suddenly ONE review and not two.

Mass Effect 2 get a 10 for presentation, why? it's not new not improved graphics the gameplay is the same with lousy background like Gears and those game for the 360 get always a higher score, there is something wrong in the game journalism and i bet that Microshaft is behind by paid those losers.

[ni99awha7]

IGN and Gamespot gave GOW 3 that score bc they know what the are talking about

[N4BmpS]

First of all to everyone who says that it's only PS3 owners who cry "bias" when a game isn't given it's proper due you are full of it. Ever since gaming critics and/or journalism began to rise back in the 80's and people used to read the review and would usually disagree with the reviewer this is nothing new and yes XBOX 360 owners do it, Wii owners do it, hell other gaming journalist do it; you can't tell me that 360, Wii owners agree with all game reviewers don't front about 'cause I know better. In regards to what HHG said I feel he has very valid points that can be proven, there were a few reviewers who gave Bayonetta a lower score on the PS3 than on the 360 due to the issues(Famitsu, etc.) and then FFXIII comes around, a game that was designed on the PS3 then ported on the 360, obviously there might be a couple of issues with the 360 version but they'll give it the same score. That's BS. Back to God of War III some of these "gaming journalist" need to make sure what they is valid and not asinine bs(I love that word) otherwise a person like me could Identify the that written BS easily. Come on I know an 8/10 is generally a good score but for a game like God of War III which doesn't do anything new but it polishes the hell out of it's gameplay the score should higher. Not to mention how many of the games misses that are detailed don't sound right but I guess I'll judge for myself when I get the game.

[chad22hkd]

It's obvious that Microsoft sponsors these tools. They have been doing that this whole generation. So many sites are pro 360. It was even worse about a 2 years ago. Look people that's how Microsoft works Monopoly. How a system with no first party support, with such a high failure rate is the cream of the crop is beyond me. I don't hate the 360 but I hate what is doing to gaming. It's because of the way Microsoft runs their business. Multiplats are being held back on ps3 and even pc because of the 360. Plus Microsoft is attempting to take all 3rd party support away from ps3 and pc. They have park place and now are trying to get boardwalk! They don't make quality products. They make crap and are experts at selling it. Windows sucked for 5 years or how ever long vista was out. Windows 7 is already weak to virus attacks. Now there is a rumor that they want to charge a monthly fee. So they can work on protecting it. Guess what apple doesn't charge. My mac is virus free. The zune was a joke. Another wanna be ipod. x box live is a joke. It's a terd painted gold with it's p2p network. Almost all games on psn have servers. They even tried to buy google so they could screw it up. They wouldn't sell, so they buy yahoo instead. I'm sorry but Microsoft sucks. I have loved every game company, nintendo before the casual shovel ware company nintendo. Sega, Sony, Atari, pc, iphone, all of them. But Microsoft is a disease to gaming. If they beat Sony it will not be long before they charge you 120 bucks a game. ODST anyone a 60 dollar expansion. Or how about RROD how many companies could get away with this kind of failure rate, and still keep the products on the market. Oh we fixed it lol, with the jasper chip, oh no you didn't now it's just a e74 error on my screen. Not to mention the damn thing scratches discs. I understand 360 gamers they love online games. With cross game chat, and party support it's a better community then psn. They 360 does have some quality games. It's just to bad it's owned and was made by Microsoft. Microsoft's number one goal MONEY it's second goal MARKET SHARE, it's 3rd goal QUALITY which it never seems to have. The media is 80 percent owned by them. When MW2 gets hailed as the jesus game, when it's single player is weak, the online is the worse I have played something is wrong. Guess who the biggest publisher in the world is. Activision, But BC2 destroys MW2 and gets a third of the support hype and ratings. These sites are paid. They suck and I hate them. Thank you hip hop gamer for telling the truth because he is telling the truth. One more thing why hate on him. Yes his grammar is bad. But is a man's intelligence based on how well his english is. I think it takes a lot more than just that. At least he is smart enough to see these biased websites, and to not be tool. So us the n4g crowd is so much better than him. Spending our time arguing about video games on the internet. So much repect hip hop all though I do wish you would tone down the gangtar stuff, you are a professional now and need to present yourself as one. Ok well that's my small voice on the subject. Go back to hating each other trolling and all the intelligent things you do.

[sasukeftw]

as long as i get to ENJOY my game of the year come this summer on my hd tv with a sorround sound system dont really care about anything else. GOD OF WAR FTW!!

[Petebloodyonion]

1) How does GOW3 is setting: "the new standard" for the ps3?
Great graphics?
For being GOW1 or 2 but with a higher polygon count?

Let's be honest here!
How many ppl complain at GTA4, Resident evil 5, MW2 and ODST for being sequels that offer nothing new to the table?
But GOW3 at 60$ for a ONLY 9 hour single campaign and the EXACT same experience as GOW1, 2, PSP should score a perfect?

Plz give me a break

[N4BmpS]

If It ain't broke don't fix it, GoWIII adds nothing new because it odesn't have to, that's known as being loyal to a franchise; the developers know what God of War is they know other People will know the difference between what needed to be done and what's been overdone. God of War 1and 2 has had solid control mechanics but they needed to be updated for the PS3's debut I'm playing the GoW Collection and I can tell that for the next title the controls need to be stepped up. The thing about RE5 is that it's controls are dated and GTAIV lacked the aiming consistency, MW2 is the same as GoWIII it's controls were so on point, it didn't need fixing the attention and complaints should have/went to the online MP. And ODST had many complaint because everyone thought that it should have stayed as a DLC expansion pack, not a $60 game. The thing about God of War III and you can tell by the demo is that the controls have been polished up for 7th gen standards. GoWIII didn't need much else, BTW play the game yourself and see how long it takes you to play it and stop listening to the amount of time reviewers give you.

[foxxy]

Gears is such a joke of a game and its higher rated then gow3 i never will listen to reviews because they lie. gametrailers is the wrost of wrost they make ign look like the most honest site which its not. Hold on i have to rant the video reviews have these douchebags who say wow its amazing omg its incredible then they give the score which it doesnt deserve its lol WTF.

[JonnyBigBoss]

Didn't register on HHG until today. Now I'm a fan. This guy knows his stuff. Thanks HHG.

[DeathMetal]

to anyone that read my post i can honestly say that that was not me I am not a racist and do not condone that word, my account was logged in and someone I know saw him and his video and made that remark I apologize if anyone was offended that was not me I grew up in Stockton ,CA and lived in Richmond, CA if anyone knows those places then you know what I am saying

[bviperz]

Just reading a few of the reviews (especially those that gave GoW 3 overall 8 scores) and I had to chuckle at some of their reasoning's. Just saying.

[pshizle]

if you like the series!

just buy the game!!!

you and only yourself knows the truth!

who gives what some other person says! If its a 10 in your mind its a 10 no one tells you otherwise. its your opinion.

[rezzah]

scores matter, especially when theres biased reveiws. Would you like to have a system with games always second to a lesser system with games of less quality (gameplay, graphics, story)? People like the 360 fans would boast how much "better" their system and games are when in reality they live a lie. Its money that runs microsoft, need an example? Paid like 50 mill just for a exclusive DLC for GTA4...AND bought off the exclusivity of a title (FF13). I dont know if its true, but i heard that they tried the same with FF14.

[trackstar103]

Im gonna need someone to explain to me how the hell the metacritic score for ffxiii is higher on 360 than on ps3. If thats not biased journalism i dont know what is

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

EVERYONE don't have to like the same damn games that you like... matter in fact I just renewed my LIVE account today. Plan on playing several hours of Heavy Rain/Uncharted 2/GOW3 and then turning off the PS3 to play some AMAZING Gears of War... do I care what fanboys think about what I want to play f**k no, do I think they are very sad for missing out on other really great games just cause they are on a rival console? f**k yes!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... to some it's graphics... to some it's gameplay... to some it's both! you're not going to please everyone so flat out get the f**k over it and stop crying!

[DigitalAnalog]

I rest my case.

-End statement