Does a perfect score mean a perfect game?

Should a perfect review score be exclusively reserved for perfect games? Can a flawed masterpiece justifiably be given top marks? Is there even any such thing as a perfect game? With BioShock and Halo 3 both recently receiving the highest numerical accolades possible from many critics, Games Radar thought they'd head into the treacherous review score mine field to canvas the opinion of some of gaming's most respected magazine editors.

[Maddens Raiders]

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-- "With BioShock and Halo 3 both recently receiving the highest numerical accolades possible...." --

"Does a perfect score mean a perfect game?" Rhetorical question.

[secret]

FACT VERSUS OPINION:
Saying your game is the best compared to anything on the PS3 is merely an opinion and not a fact. No matter how high the review scores are, to someone else's eyes, they will always think that Mostorstorm or Grand Turismo 5 are better games, as I do. You've been backing your opinion with reviewer opinions and calling it a fact. There's no fact.

A fact is something that can be proven inarguably false or true by scientific experiments or observation. For example, let's say that you stated, "In my opinion, pigs have been known to fly." That is a factual statement no matter how you word it. It's because it is scientifically provable to be either false or true. You can exam all pigs throughout textbooks and all pigs currently alive and you won't ever see a flying pig so far.

Similarly, you can say that a girl that you hated has HIV or AIDS when you know she doesn't. However, it's still a factual statement. You can yank her into the testing room and have her tested. It can be proven scientically whether she has it or not. You can take her to ten medical test centers just to be sure.

But to say that PGR4 is better as a matter of fact is not a fact, no matter how you word it or how many other opinions you use to support it. Because if you look carefully, you already have a majority of the people voting disagree on your "fact statement." It is in their opinion that your opinion and the reviewer's opinions are different and is proof that it isn't better than anyting on the PS3. And opinions can change over time. At any given moment, any of the reviewers could think differently based on the mood or other experiences or after a closer observation and then secretly change their "factual" statement one way or the other in their mind at least. I do think that Mostorstorm and Grand Turismo 5 are better than anything on the xbox360 and that's one of the reasons why I refused to buy an xbox360. Understand?

If I do believe that Halo 3 and Gears and Bio are perfect 10's and wonderful -- TOO. then why didn't I buy the xbox360 or even buy it for my Personal Computer, since those games are on the PC, aren't they? Those games pretty much received perfect 10's and mean that they are the best games ever made right?

READ THIS, XBOTS
No. Because it's their opinion. I have my OWN OPINIONS and because it's my money and not theirs, I choose according to my TASTES. My opinion is that I prefer Motostorm, Grand Turismo 5, Resistance, Sigma, GRAW2, MGS4, HAZE, and Ratchet & Clank, and that's why I bought my PS3 -- in addition to free online, high quality (not low quality) Bluray and DVD playback, and PS2, PS1, and PSN features (since I skipped the PS2, PS1 eras), SACD playback, seemingly indestructable hardware, quiteness, sleek black design that blends into the night when watching movies or playing games with the lights turned off, motion sensing controls, beautiful design, one piece design, linux computer, folding to help society, its potentials, its environmental friendly materials that's safer for humans and the environment, the Sony brand name, and the fact that the PS3 plus my computer can become a custom built XBOX360. Most of which the xbox360 lacks.

Why would I buy an xbox360 for Gears or Bioshock or Halo if I don't like those games? I should buy it because somebody else likes them and gave them good scores? I don't think so. It's my money, not theirs.

PS3 + PC computer = XBOX360
Most people who buy a PS3 first will rarely need to buy an xbox360, but most people who buy xbox360's first will most likely feel a desire for a PS3 at some point. Only one of the main reasons is that most of the games worth having on the xbox360 are going to be ported to the xbox360 (GRAW2, NGS, Oblivion, COD4, Fight Night3, DEVIL MAY CRY, and so on) or they will be available on the PC in almost everyone's homes -- such as Halo, Gears, and Bioshock the PC version.

XBOX360 owners can pout and flame until their face turns blue and faint, but in the end, we PS3 owners made the right purchase. And we know it.

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Enough said...

PLAYB3YOND

[SmokeyMcBear]

No

[Texas GMR]

There will never be a perfect game. How can there be when all reviews are based on personal opinions. What's perfect in ones eyes is not perfect in anothers.

[Double-Edged]

everyone played it... everyone loved it...

next would be...Halo 1.....GTA.....MGS1.....God of War

and you know why?....it was new IPs.

Keep an eye on the new NextGen Ips....

Gears and BioShock are up there.

[Shankle]

fingers crossed for uncharted....

[Bonsai1214]

no. reviewers don't have the balls to rate games poorly anymore. what happened to the old days when a 5 out of 10 meant perfectly average....

edit: wtf? chris slate's the editor in chief of nintendo power? wow...

[paul_war]

I agree, the business is getting bigger & there is a lot more money involved. 5/10 should be a score for an average game & not a poor game, at least Edge can still give reviews like this. Gears, Metroid & Bioshock all great games & all given 8's.

[DethWish]

On a scale to 100, it should.
Therefore all reviewers should change their scales to 100/100 -
so that they can really show the readers that it is or is not a completely perfect game.

[felidae]

i love Lair

so ... no perfect score makes a perfect game.

BS

[jaja1434]

Used to think it should. Then i realized that nothing is this world is perfect and that includes video games. So that would make the 10.0 score meaningless since it could not be obtained. So 10.0 to me now just simples means "can't miss".

[PLAYSTATION4EVER]

Perfect score don't/doesn't mean a perfect game.

Killer Instinct is a awesome game and still got rate so low.

"Let the players choose what they like to play"

I can't wait for Unreal Tournament 3 to come out.

[skynidas]

nope

[Fux4Bux]

Maybe a couple games a generation deserve perfect scores. There will obviously never be a perfect game but I guess we just need to grade on a curve here.

And wtf is up with review systems these days. 7.5 or so has become the AVERAGE score. Game can either be mediocre generic garbage or be great for the niche it appeals to at that score. 5 should be average and still worth playing. Games need much lower scores these days because you'd think average would mean still enjoyable. 5 is just plain junk from most reviewers.

[spikormikor13]

The reason, in my opinion, why a 7 is average has to do with school grading systems. Since a 70% is a C, and it's considered "average", a lot of people (including me) tend to think the same way about games.

[Marty8370]

After all the reviews are just opinions of the reviewer.

[GaMr-]

Halo......3

That sums up the answer to this question. What do I mean by it... you be the judge!

[Double-Edged]

has tons of features.
Good Campeign (4player co-op)
Forge
Replay Feature
Multiplayer Online
This game certainly doesnt lack in terms of neccesities..i spelled that wrong.. lol....

but yeah... Kudos

[funkysolo]

Halo3
single player sucks
graphics suck
7 hours to beat
640p I thought this was HD gaming
story sucks and not one time does it feel epic
Most linear FPS in history
worst framerate than any next gen game
Dumb A.I.

Halo3
Multiplayer is ok but just feels like Halo2 which I stop playing 2 years ago and new maps only last for a few months before you get tired.
Wow forge, yeah that's a good feature welcome to the world of custom matches on PS network.
Record videos, does anyone even uses this crap

You xbots are funny, I played the game and finish it 117....Halo3 is garbage compare to RFOM..play RFOM and finish it then come back so we can compare the 2, because RFOM blows away Halo3 from graphics, gameplay, story, A.I., framerate......And just to prove a point if it would of been any PS3 game with all these flaws it would got a 5.5..Halo3 is garbage and PS3 don't have anything to be envy of RFOM is the best nextgen FPS in the market

[OsolidOsnakeO]

No.....
example, sport games!!!

[UltramanJ]

...when you know no game will ever reach it? I agree with giving exceptionally well done games a ten. Obviously no game will ever be perfect, too bad some people don't seem to realize that when looking at a game that scored a ten.

[funkysolo]

And you will see that Reveiws are bias. I play the game and from my experiance in gaming from playing 360 and PS3 games Halo3 is garbage. I had more fun playing COD2, Gears of War, Perfect dark Zero, Lost Planet, RFOM. RFOM and Gears OF War are true examples of Nextgen gaming...halo3 is basicaly a mappack with a side mission for Halo2. I'm not kidding, Halo3 it's that bad and you can tell I play games on both systems and can give props to 360 for Gears of War, which I beleave it's still the Premier nextgen shooter.

[spike]

Halo 3 was good, not perfect. I would give it a 9. Bioshock and Gears Of War a 10.

[gololo]

then i think GeOW deserved a 10...it reinvented the 3rd person shooter genre, and it looks freaking awesome...to this date this is my fave next gen game.

[poopface1]

No game Is perfect, because it is a matter of opinion. One persons perfect game is another mans crap game.