If you look at some of the good movie critics (NY Times, New Yorker, Washington Post), their reviews don’t operate on a scale at all. I don’t see why the video game review has to be such a slave to the number rating.
In fact, it might help the medium in its quest for acceptance as a serious artform if the average game review didn’t read like a checklist of the different elements in the game with an arbitrary number tacked on at the bottom.
Down with number ratings, I say.
Is BioShock a Perfect Game? August 29, 2007