Check this out:
 http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/114/1145332p1.html
What do you think?

I'm positive I've seen user reviews around here that are of much lower quality. 

Yup, it's an abomination.

Reads like tons of other reviews I've read.
Any specific beef?

You can at least give us a little more commentary on it man.  At least let me know what game its for.  Or put this in the Dead Space 2 forum.

The very first sentence from the article... 

Dead Space 2 is an amazing game. I'm going to write about its scary moments, cool kills, and how much I dig the main character's internal struggle, but Dead Space 2 is about more than this.

 

Please actually explain why you find the review to be so terrible rather than link us too it and expect people to work out why you personally dislike the review ;)

Lazy topic. You haven't even given an opinion to argue against. Honestly, this thread is a little spammy. I'm not flagging it, but there's really no substance. It's basically like youtube spam, where you go "hey, check this out" and then "what do you think?" without contributing...anything. 
 
Seriously, you give us a yes or no question, and expect some sort of discussion? I mean, you didn't even create a poll, which would've added some modicum of interest.

I read it now, don't understand what the problem is.  Other than he seems to be a big fan of the series now, I see no problem with the review.  I don't get how you can even think of this being remotely possibly the worst review ever.  I guess from comments it seemed to have originally had some errors that now seem to be gone.  Hardly think that requires even this thread.

I don't know was this one time where some guy gave a certain game a 8.8.  But yeah I only read the first two sentences and that was enough for me.

" Please actually explain why you find the review to be so terrible rather than link us too it and expect people to work out why you personally dislike the review ;) "

I read through this article earlier, and it is an absolute train wreck. Honestly, I haven't read any of this guy's other work, but if this is an indication of the overall quality, then I have no idea how he has a writing job.  
 
@DerekDanahy said:

" I'm positive I've seen user reviews around here that are of much lower quality.  "

HELLO I AM 8 AND ON MY SUMMER HOLIDAY I PLAYED DEAD SPACE 2 AND TEHN I ATE A APPLE AND LOTS OF COOL STUFF!! THEN I HAD A SLEEP THANK YOU.
 
9.0

Poorly written, informal to an annoying degree, and like a book report done by a jock.   But for me what would be worse would be an overly formal review concerned with minute details of no account.  The person likes the game, it and is saying so in an informal style.  Moreover, I doubt that is the IGN USA Greg Miller who wrote that since it is linked to a normal 'user account' on the site with any information. 

IGN's original review of Football Manager 2009 is the worst I've ever read. It was terrible. So terrible that they pulled the review and re-reviewed it. 
 
That is a pretty bad review though. It reads like it was written by a 7 year old.

That was pretty fucking bad. 
 
"  hello i am thirteen and this is my dead space 2 review it was very scary when the monster jumped out of the thing and isaac is a really engaging character because he is a badass and kills lotsa monsters and theres lotsa blood with his boots 

also i am paid to do this somehow"

Firstly, I feel the need to point out that I'm kind of a noob at this and this criticism has left me a little... lost?
But I shall plow on ahead none the less.
My main complaint is with the authors style of writing constantly using words such as "cool" and "heavy" it's the kind of writing an moron could come up with. And his use of slang is frankly ridiculous.
I'm not really sure what to think about Dead Space 2 when this person writes... it's all dumbed down.
Is it IGN that is terrible or is it their staff?  
On a different note, however I would like to have some advice on how to improve myself as a GB member and to not be an asshole.

" @Hamz said:

" Please actually explain why you find the review to be so terrible rather than link us too it and expect people to work out why you personally dislike the review ;) "

This deserves a quote tree. "

" HELLO I AM 8 AND ON MY SUMMER HOLIDAY I PLAYED DEAD SPACE 2 AND TEHN I ATE A APPLE AND LOTS OF COOL STUFF!! THEN I HAD A SLEEP THANK YOU.  9.0 "

Man, I don't remember Greg Miller writing this poorly before.  
 
Maybe he was drunk? Or hungover? But yeah, it's a pretty rough article...  
 
EDIT: Good lord, why am I reading the comments on this IGN article? Some of these people are clinically insane and completely incompetent fools.   

So it's strictly a poor writing thing right?
I'd agree but frankly, in these days of: 

- pay-offs
- blind franchise love (or hate)
- grading curves
- humour trumps all
- leetness trumps all
- nicheness trumps all  
- number of trips to the thesaurus trumps all 
- dev team size trumps all 
- development story trumps all
- X is a Y clone and I liked Y better
- "I'm sick of this genre"
- "I've never liked this genre" 
- "I'm mad at this dev-house" 
- "I really like some of the dudes at this dev-house"
- their marketing turned me off  
- their marketing turned me on
- I don't like their celebrity developer 
 
Poor writing is the least of my worries.
 
To be double frank, GiantBomb's review of Red Dead Redemption still holds my number one spot for worst review ever.
Interpret that however you like.

" Please actually explain why you find the review to be so terrible rather than link us too it and expect people to work out why you personally dislike the review ;) "

"To be double frank, GiantBomb's review of Red Dead Redemption still holds my number one spot for worst review ever. Interpret that however you like. "

" Check this out:  http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/114/1145332p1.html What do you think? "

Yep. That was terrible

" @ProfessorEss said:

"To be double frank, GiantBomb's review of Red Dead Redemption still holds my number one spot for worst review ever. Interpret that however you like. "

"

...That review has been up for days, and people are only Now freaking out about it? But yeah, there were parts of it that were written poorly. Just like a bunch of the drivel I see on forums on a daily basis.

I fail to see the shitty-ness from that article. 

This image is making the rounds online right now. It's pretty self-explanatory:
 

People really like to stretch for things to get all up-in-arms about, don't they.

Skimming over it, it did seem to be worded poorly in a few spots. Didn't seem super bad though.

God, do people really have nothing better to do than complain about how a review is written. 

Greg Miller is an asshole. He spews nothing but bullshit. He's literally the reason I stopped going to IGN.

trying to read that was just insane.

This really isn't anything to get workup about,over some guy's review.

I remember reading this days ago thinking the exact same thing. Didn't feel the need to rage over it via a created thread, though. I mean it's IGN for shitzer's sake; it wasn't all too surprising for me to encounter this amount of incompetence.

" This image is making the rounds online right now. It's pretty self-explanatory:
 

"

From a writing point of view, it wasn't spectacular, but wasn't terrible. I fail to see how it's a bad review... Considering that this is pretty much what Brad sounds like when he talks about the game, I'd say it's fine.  It's pretty short, and to the point, but doesn't seem terrible.

Also, remember that he is writing for gamers. Expecting them to have a sophisticated handle on the English (or any other) language is a little silly. And considering your a member on one of the most informal journalistic sites I know of, even in this industry, it seems a little odd that you would have that issue.  
 
I'm not saying it's great, because it's far from it. But it's not terrible. To be terrible, it would need to be dishonest or have terrible grammar or sound like a retard wrote it. Being simple isn't really enough to make it terrible. Especially when there are people looking for a simple, straight forward review. That is why there are so many sources of reviews in industries. So if you want something more in depth, go elsewhere.

" HELLO I AM 8 AND ON MY SUMMER HOLIDAY I PLAYED DEAD SPACE 2 AND TEHN I ATE A APPLE AND LOTS OF COOL STUFF!! THEN I HAD A SLEEP THANK YOU.  9.0 "

Yeah, that's pretty fucking bad. I'm gonna guess it went down like this:  
"Hey, dude, we need a review for Dead Space 2 today. You almost done?" 
"Wait, what? I'm only on chapter 2. I haven't even--" 
"Okay, sounds great, man. So, post that review today." 
"But--" 
"You have 2 hours." 
 
At least, I hope so.

" Yeah, that's pretty fucking bad. I'm gonna guess it went down like this:  "Hey, dude, we need a review for Dead Space 2 today. You almost done?" "Wait, what? I'm only on chapter 2. I haven't even--" "Okay, sounds great, man. So, post that review today." "But--" "You have 2 hours."  At least, I hope so. "

" From a writing point of view, it wasn't spectacular, but wasn't terrible. I fail to see how it's a bad review... Considering that this is pretty much what Brad sounds like when he talks about the game, I'd say it's fine.  It's pretty short, and to the point, but doesn't seem terrible.

Also, remember that he is writing for gamers. Expecting them to have a sophisticated handle on the English (or any other) language is a little silly. And considering your a member on one of the most informal journalistic sites I know of, even in this industry, it seems a little odd that you would have that issue.   I'm not saying it's great, because it's far from it. But it's not terrible. To be terrible, it would need to be dishonest or have terrible grammar or sound like a retard wrote it. Being simple isn't really enough to make it terrible. Especially when there are people looking for a simple, straight forward review. That is why there are so many sources of reviews in industries. So if you want something more in depth, go elsewhere. "

This reminds me of something that happened early last semester. My roommate, who is one of the worst native speakers/writers of the English language ever to exist, wisely told me to review his "introduction to the class" thing that all students were apparently required to post in this forum (the Internet integration at our school is so weird). His biggest problem is that he kinda, sorta knows the Real Rules of English Grammar in the back of his head, but he writes in such a stream-of-consciousness manner that he just rambles on and on and on and doesn't end his sentences and starts new sentences without even fully completing the previous thought and then sometime just trailing sentences off altogether as he forgot to finish them sort of like 
 
Anyways, after we had finished that, we looked through the rest of the student-posted introductions. Mind you, all they had to write was something along the lines of: 
 
"Hello, I'm John Smith, a sophomore here at NSU. I signed up for this class because I wanted to learn more about psychological thriller films, as the concept interests me. I haven't seen many such films myself, but I hope to learn more about them before the semester is over!" 
 
And, I shit you not, the only post that used entirely proper grammar was the teacher's (and my roommate's, once we had revised it). Not a single fucking one of these thirty or so idiots could be arsed to use proper fucking English to introduce themselves to an English teacher! 
 
People just suck at grammar nowadays :\ 
 
EDIT: For all of you morons saying that most of the criticisms in that image are trivial... WRITING ENGLISH SENTENCES IS WHAT THIS PERSON DOES FOR A FUCKING LIVING! The man gets paid to write English sentences summarizing his experiences playing video games. Read Giant Bomb reviews sometime and notice how they rarely (if ever) have anything anywhere near this level of erroneousness about them. 
 
(Chrome tells me that "erroneousness" is a real word, and I feel awesome for assuming it is.)