You can act surprised and shocked but this has been going on since the start of Metacritic. Since Metacritic has become the stick by which all games are measured it's in their interest to tilt the scores in their favour.
Game companies have been caught paying people to hype games on game forums such as Neogaf, it's widespread. I can tell by lots of so called user reviews on places like Amazon and Metacritic that they are written by people inside the company. This is...
The good guys always win?, only because millions of people sacrificed their lives to stop people like Hitler. If it wasn't for them you would be working for a Nazi or dead.
I suppose that evil is also awesome and cool is it. There is nothing awesome about evil, it just wants you dead.