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Best Game Review Site

Jul 3, 2007 9:08AM PDT

Hello everyone. For all of my game reviews I have gone to IGN, but I have begun to question their reviewing skills. I was wondering where everyone else looked to for reviews. I don't really like X-play or Gamespot either, so please don't mention them. Thanks.

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I use multiple sites
Jul 3, 2007 1:20PM PDT

I usually check multiple sites for game reviews, and any time the reviews overlap, I figure that's something worth paying attention to.

In the end, it all comes down to the fact that game reviews are highly subjective. All kinds of things can factor into a game's review score. For example, games released at the beginning of a console's lifecycle may get rather high reviews, but largely because there's so little to compare them to. If they were to be revisited periodically throughout the lifecycle of a console, many of the scores would likely decline. You also have to consider the mood of the reviewer at the time as well. How many games have they reviewed that day, and what the relative quality of those games were. If you played 3 really awful games for the first 6 hours of the day, even a mediocre game would seem excellent in comparison. In contrast, if you played an excellent game, and then went on to review a bloody horrible game, you might pan it even more harshly.

On top of all that, games are starting to become big business, so there's more pressure on review sites to give favorable reviews to games from big name publishers. Not that it's limited solely to game reviews, but that's another subject. Which is exactly why I check multiple sites. If a score is roughly the same at multiple sites, it's probably accurate. If it varies wildly, something is obviously up.

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re: Best Game Review Site
Jul 4, 2007 8:27PM PDT

Here is my list:
gamestop.com
gamefaqs.com
cheatcc.com
ign.com
www.gamespot.com

Can you tell me why you dislike Gamespot????
As for me Gamespot is the most comprehensive game review website. They video review games, based on overall feel, graffics, gameplay, Value, and tilt. And they keep you updated what are the best games currently for all the major platforms. And they have a quite humourous crew to review them.

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I can name one thing
Jul 5, 2007 1:51AM PDT

The ads... They're freakin' EVERYWHERE! Big giant flash based ads, obnoxious flashing animated GIF ads, ads in video previews of games... Everywhere you look, there's an ad. And I have AdBlock set up to get rid of the majority of them, but still they annoy the crap out of me. I'm also not a fan of the black with sort of mustard yellow color scheme. Makes it seem like the sort of thing some 8 year old kid slapped together for his first attempt at a wesbite.

Not that IGN is really any better I'll grant... And GameFAQs is owned by Cnet just like GameSpot. GameStop/EB Games is a retail outlet, not a review site.

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www.gamerankings.com
Jul 5, 2007 3:38AM PDT
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my site
Jul 5, 2007 9:20PM PDT

Mine is 1up.com and some of the consoles own web sites but 1up to me seems to be the most neutral of the gaming sites I hate that most sites like to bash other consoles and I don't like that cause if there was only 1 they could charge what ever they want and that would suck.I like variety.

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www.whichgamenext.com
Nov 2, 2010 10:08PM PDT

My favorite is

www.whichgamenext.com

I used to browse numerous sites to grasp objective views about game releases until i found this site, which already does this inquiry and provides a neat presentation. Great time saver, and you get what you want without being distracted by all sources of irrelevant information.