I'm personally waiting on the PC version, since that's how I played the original. All this bashing of gaming sites and we left out IGN? I'm sorry, but the kings are now serfs. I can't stand reading their reviews, I visit their site purely for gaming news and updates now, same with Gamespot. I was looking here to find reviews from people that have actually played the game without a promotion on the line. Yesterday's retrospective article on IGN about Halo 2 basically stated Microsoft 'bought' the 9.8 review IGN gave the game. Something to the effect of Microsoft telling the reviewer 'this will be the most important review of your career.' The guy dissagreed with him, saying GTA3 was the most important, yet he still gave it a 9.8 score? The article he wrote definately doesn't sound like a 9.8 worthy game to me. 9.0 - 9.2 maybe. High scores don't mean a thing anymore.
In 1998 when Ocarina of Time received the first (and only) 10.0 I was floored, and to this day still firmly believe the game deserved such a prestigeous score, but then again, that's when IGN had credibility. If they gave a game a 10.0 now, I'd be really leary about their judgement on it, and how much stock the developer of the game owns in IGN. But anyway, with that review, IGN lost more credibility than the McGriddles fiasco earlier this year. Point being, if you can find somebody like us, other gamers, who have played the game to review it, take their word over any gaming site, any day. Like major league sports, it's all about money now, which is really unfortunate.
