Friday, April 25, 2008

10 out of 10?! That's not a real score...

So, IGN gave Grand Theft Auto IV (that's FOUR) a perfect 10 out of 10 in every possible category.



I'm sure the game is great, possibly THE best ever made to this point, but 10 out of 10 is just fucking stupid. NO GAME should ever get a perfect score, there has to be SOMETHING wrong with it. If you do this, your integrity is automatically jeopardized, in my opinion, and you need to learn the term "objective".

All a score like this does is makes people wonder how much you were paid by the company providing the game, as well as exclusive access to a lot of the game's material the entire week before the game's release, paid you. In the reviewer's eyes, sure, the game may be perfect, but in reality, that's just not a possible feat. I realize the site is paying the reviewer to give his opinion, but I think a bit of perspective could have been thrown in without tarnishing the message that the game is, in fact, one of the greatest ever made.

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