Metacritic: The Best Videogames of 2007

Metacritic publishes the list of Best Game of the Year. This list is built from the Average of all a game's Review Scores, and includes the reviews from across the entire videogame industry's reputable press.

Unlike other GotY lists, this is "by the numbers" and not the opinion of an editorial board.

This Metacritic GotY list is divided by platform.

[LinuxGuru]

I like metacritic.....lots of sources for each game to determine a score.

Usually between 25 and 50 sources for each game!

[DRUDOG]

Love how you get a disagree for basically no reason. What, the other dude doesn't like metacritic?!? I agree with you, I usually go there every once in awhile to get an idea of what everyone has said about a game. Like that they link to most of the reviews too.

[Method]

Most likely a bitter playslave sulking over the fact that neither uncharted nor ratchet & clank are considered AAA.

[ActionBastard]

Still can't afford one Method. tsk tsk

I'm having plenty o' fun. UT3, Uncharted, R&C, Rock Band, Heavenly Sword, COD4, Resistance and Superbad on BD. And I'm not even mentioning my PSN titles or the 12 DVD rips I have on my PS3. Or that I get to play them online for free. Claiming to not use it is one thing, downing games you've never played because your security is threatened is another.

Have fun when your 360 is working and XBL is up.

[Led Zeppelin]

Playing CoD4 and Halo 3 online right now. Xbox Live working great, but I'd expect you'd know better, even though you have a PS3, right?

[Method]

$400 is affordable, I just don't see any good in spending my own money on something that I'm not going to use.

Have fun with your dust collector.

[bootsielon]

"Most likely a bitter playslave sulking over the fact that neither uncharted nor ratchet & clank are considered AAA."

Where in Metacritic has the string "AAA" been uttered in order to label games, moron? If you're talking about "in general", then there are lots of people, including reviewers, that consider those "AAA", among other games. It's so funny that people think that "AAA = 9.0", as "AAA" is such a subjective term, it's ludicrous.

Even more, why has Metacritic, whose parent company CNet lacks the business ethics to NOT FIRE YOUR EDITORS for a review, become the official norm for buying games? If you want a good source, don't go to either metacritic or gamerankings, go to gamestats.com. There, you'll find that your precious POS Halo 3 is not AAA; by your own definition of AAA of course (OMG NOT 9.0+). In fact, you'll find that Uncharted has 9.1, which would make it AAA in your definition.

Or you could count them all websites, but since one of the three, gamestats namely, doesn't consider Halo 3 AAA by your own definition, it is not considered AAA, by following your example of absurd generalizations. You fail.

[Method]

Angry playslave is angry.

Uncharted is not AAA and denial is not a river.

Keep crying delusional fanfag.

[Led Zeppelin]

That neither R&C or Uncharted won GOTY, but a multiplat did.

[bozemanriverrat]

When people use a Metacritic score as a reason that "this game rocks/sucks," I encourage everyone to visit the site itself and see the individual scores for themselves. I've seen people claim a game is horrible based solely on the Metacritic average, yet I go there and see that the lowest score is 15-20 points lower than the next lowest. Of course, this also works in reverse, with games getting high averages only for the highest score to be significantly higher than the 2nd highest.

For this reason, when I use Metacritic, I generally throw out both the highest and lowest scores, unless its a string of 90's or 20's.

[bootsielon]

are Halo. And we all know why it is scored so high. TSK TSK, M$FT may ring some bells. (Gamespot may ring some bells too)

[segasage]

"Most likely a bitter playslave sulking over the fact that neither uncharted nor ratchet & clank are considered AAA."

it's Fact 360 games sell pretty well.

10+ games 90%+ average.

[jaja1434]

With all the money that people think MS throws to reviews/bloggers/satin, it's a miracle that they can even stay in business...

[xplosneer]

That they divided the games into categories so this won't turn into a fanboy fight fest. Oh, wait...

[LJWooly]

Um, I don't think we should use Metacritic to classify games as "AAA" or however you like to label games. Well, not for PS3 owners, anyway. Everyone, by now should know that Microsoft > CNET > Metacritic/Gamerankings.

As somebody already stated above, you should use Gamestats.com instead, simnply because of no ties to any large companies (i.e. Microsoft) and therfore, in theory, no bias towards any console.

A while ago, one guy made a post about Metacritc's bias towards 360 games, meaning they don't count some reviews that would elevate PS3 exclusive games' overrall score above 90.

Here's that post, and if you take the time to read through it, you'll see that it all makes a lot of sense:

"You guys realize that no matter what it's almost impossible, unless the game is damn near perfect, for a PS3 game to score the same as a similar 360 game.

What I mean is, I'd say although different Genre's Mass Effect is similar to Uncharted in terms there both AAA. Yet Mass Effect overall score is like 92.0% and Uncharted overall score is 89.0% (Taken from Gamerankings or Metacrtic).

Now you may wonder why this is so, look at mass effect scores, if you look at the sheer amount of X-box magazines, or x-box only sites that review just 360 games, or have a more favourable scoring for 360 games.

You got Official Xbox Magazine 10/10
MS Xbox World 10/10
Planet Xbox 360 10/10
TeamXbox 9.6/10
Xbox 360 Advanced 9.2/10
Xbox World 360 Magazine UK 9.0/10

Vs. Uncharted (PS3 favourable mags/sites)

Playstation Official Magazine UK 9/10
PSX Extreme 9/10
TotalPlaystation 8.5/10

Now forget the scores for a minute, and look at how many X-box only sites/mags are counted in avg. score vs. PS3 only/mags sites.. You've got 6 sites for 360 and 3 for PS3.

Don't believe...go to a game like Rock Band, both games are identical on PS3 or 360; there aren't framerate issues, etc. The graphics aren't high end anyways... Not to mention Ps3 is wireless and 360 is wired. But let’s forget that.

Look at the 360 vs. PS3 game ranking score:

Rock Band on 360 (93.4 %) - Rock Band on PS3 (91.3%)

Again if you click on the individual pages on 360 side you'll have You got Official Xbox Magazine, MS Xbox World, Planet Xbox 360
TeamXbox, etc. On PS3 side nothing yet from PS3 only sites/mags.

Now I’m not trying to prove these games aren't good, however if these games are good, the 360 side is going to have 2-4% higher score, because the sheer amount more of 360 "friendly" sites vs. Ps3 "friendly" sites.

I can almost promise you if Uncharted was released on 360 today, and had the same visuals, etc. IT'd have 3-4% higher score today on 360, than PS3. Just because the sheer amount of 360 sites that review/score 360 games vs. PS3 games.

Some reviews for Ratchet & Clank Future that weren’t released on Metacritic:
gameplayer - 8/10
loadingreality 9.5/10
justpressplay 9.5/10
ign AU - 9.4/10
slashdot - 8/10
gamesarefun - 10/10
pcn - 9/10
sydney morning herald- 9/10
wonderwallweb - 9.8/10
playtm - 8.2/10
videogamemedia - 9.3/10
play:digitial video review - 10/10
netjak - 9.6/10."

The other guy's post ends here, and it proves my point that Metacritic and Gamerankings are both no longer valid review compilation sites for anything PS3 realted. As you can see, if all reviews for Ratchet and Clank had been accounted for on Metacritic, then Ratchet & Clank's overrall score would have been well above 89, as it is on Metacritic and Gamerankings.

Just making sure everyone knows what's going on, lest you all fall victim to the ruthless viral marketing machine that is Microsoft, lol.

[tony]

shines in the year 2007. according to metacritic.

super mario galaxy has great scores too but it hasn't been reviewed as many time as bioshock.

[JokesOnYou]

because ps3 games overall don't have high scores or what really bothers them is 360 exclusive games have "superior" scores overall=

@ #7 ^^^^^^LJWooly, its hard to take you seriously when you make statements that are blatantly untrue, for example: you list netjak as a review source for R&C(9.6) thats NOT included on Metacritic, ha ha WRONG/UN-TRUE it IS listed on Metacritic, its the 8th review down the list
http://www.metacritic.com/g...

and these are the favorable Playstation sites/mags *Listed on Metacritic* who Reviewed R&C, btw none of them score it below 90%:

Playstation 3 Advanced
TotalPlayStation
PSM Magazine
PSM3 Magazine UK
PSX Extreme
Playstation Official Magazine UK
Official Playstation 2 Magazine UK

Uncharted favorable Playstation sites/mags *Listed on Metacritic*

Playstation 3 Advanced
Playstation Official Magazine UK
PSX Extreme
Official Playstation 2 Magazine UK
PSW Magazine UK (not sure what this mag is)
TotalPlayStation
Playstation: The Official Magazine (US)
http://www.metacritic.com/g...

So again you are totally wrong saying there are *ONLY 3 favorable playstation sites/mags who reviewed both ps3's highest avg scoring games vs 6 favorable 360 sites/mags reviews, and everyone can check it for themselves. lmfao

Finally I can tell you are really whinning and not actual being sincere in your comments because you nitpick metacritic for not including every damm little unknown site under the sun, like these for example:
loadingreality,(huh?) justpressplay,(who?) sydney morning herald(wtf?)= I mean come on, they don't list every site known to man for 360 games either, hell if I made up a website and gave it a terrible review, should they list that too? ha ha it just doesn't work like that but they do use almost all the same well known review sites and of course each the favorable xbox and playstation sites for each game.

I'm sorry but your post is "selective thinking" at its best, your whole post is incorrect and demonstrates the typical sonykids "tunnel vision", "the world is against sony", "its a conspiracy", "micro paid them off", but when you look at the FACTS, again sonykids just sound like little crybabies=

JOY

[ThaGeNeCySt]

ike these for example:
loadingreality,(huh?) justpressplay,(who?) sydney morning herald(wtf?)= I mean come on,

^^^roflmao + bubbles

[rootEXT]

X360 AAA
Bioshock
Mass Effect
Halo 3

PS3 AAA
Uncharted
R/C
UT3

Fanboys are robot they let other people to tell them what's good

Jump in PlayBeyond

[SSCOOLCHEA]

Seriously , Anybody who does , doesnt have a brain . Your missing out on all the good games because somebody else who is different from you dont like it . What a dumb assessssss !