The Problem With Game Review Scores

Roxanne: Last year I wrote an article on the subjectivity of game reviews. That year saw a lot of interesting developments in games reviews, where Prey was given a 4/10 because an IGN writer’s copy wasn’t working properly, and where Jim Sterling got harrassed on all channels because he blasphemed Breath of a Wild with a 7/10 review. Both events raised public outcry because they disagreed with the scores given by both journalists.

Even here at Sirus we’ve had arguments regarding review scores – the same game might be given a completely different score by different reviewers in-house, depending on their preferences and specific experiences with the game.