kariyanine

You don't have to.  I am not saying no personal experience of the writer, just that it should be weighted appropriately.  A game should be compared against other games in the same genre and that is where the personal opinion comes into it for me.  If you review Forza 3, then it is reviewed with Forza 2, Gran Tursimo, Need For Speed and PGR3/4 in mind.  You get your baseline from that and it should be noted how it compares against what has come before it.  An actual score is more about what it does above "perfectly acceptable" or average.  What it does better than average pushes that score up.  Better still, no score at all as a number is really quite meaningless.   
 
It is probably true to say that writers write purely to entertain, but in doing so, they cheapen the worth of what they write.  It is also true that some people want to be entertained by the review.  I still it can be done without ruining the integrity of the review.  If we disagree that a review cannot be objective, then we will never agree.  I am not going to take it personally.  I have a lifetime of being analytical and critical of journalists in general.  I don't feel the need to just settle for what they dish out. "

" Yes and no.  A review should have 2 very distinct components, personal opinion (whether they liked it, the story, the characters et cetera)  and relevant facts (that affect the game like camera, pop-ups, glitches et cetera).  The score should reflect the technical aspects of the game more than the personal opinions.  ........ dons flame guard ............ "

28 Days, Signs (dude it freaked me out when i saw it in theaters), Sixth Sense, Saw, and umm oh yeah The Decent. That movie had me goin with all the claustrophobic shit.  "

My problem with the game is that  the release of Shadow Complex proved that full sized games can come out on XBLA and PSN for a budget price point.  I can't justify spending $50 on this game because of that.  I'll play it (through Gamefly) but $50 is a little steep for me to pay for it at retail.

  ...that people play a game properly.

I've been playing online games long enough that I understand there are a select group of "special" individuals who make it their life's goal to make other people's leisure time a giant pain in the ass. Be it homophobic racists in Halo, assholes who leave the map in Gears of War, or even people who take advantage of the ever present blue-line glitch in the NHL series, they are out there and all of us have to accept it.

I've recently developed a strong addiction to Battlefield 1943 and while I can't stand the asshole in the game who is standing on the aircraft carrier in Air Superiority waiting for planes to spawn so he can blow them up with a rocket launcher I've come to accept his stupidity. What I can't stand is his/her moronic counterpart. You all know the guy (or girl), the one who gets in a plane and has no idea how to fly it, treating it more like a flying bulldozer than a fighter jet.

News flash to players of Battlefield 1943, the blue team is yours so it behooves you to maybe not try and run them out of the sky as you pursue a kill because all you are going to do is get yourself and your teammate killed. I myself am not the greatest pilot and still generally get more kills in a plane by running it head on into my opponent but I do know to avoid running into my own team members for both our sakes. Oh and in the game proper when you choose the sniper class please find yourself a nice bunker or grove of tress to hang out in, you aren't meant to be front line troops and trying to back up regular infantry with your bolt action rifle generally just means you and your squad mates are going to die. Really its OK to camp if you want to be a sniper.

I love when my plate becomes a sea of blood.

No Colin, I think they are PSP releases.

" It's when you realize after hundred of hours in a game that "Holy mother of god, there's a sun out there". Then you go out there and eat an ice-cream.That's how you beat a multiplayer game. "

" When you realize that literally no one else is playing the multiplayer for the 360 version of Unreal Tournament III. I clearly won that game.  "