Is 7/10 a low score to give Killzone 2?

[Uncompetative]

Edge magazine recently published a review of Killzone 2. I felt it was quite balanced. They admired it's "immaculate craft", enjoyed its multiplayer, yet had to mark it down a little because its "imagination... barely exists." Their, subjective, opinion; right? However, much of their readership must of skipped over this text to the score:

7/10

Surely, a misprint...

Actually, that is not a low/poor score for Edge. It is more like an 8/10 for others. It thereby enables them to only rarely use 10 for something truly revolutionary (there being no such thing as a perfect game, but obvious progress in the medium of videogaming needs to be rewarded). Even a game that scores 5/10 isn't a "don't buy" proposition, just read the review that accompanies it.

So, you can form your own opinion here is the review:

http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/killzone-2-the-edge-verdict?page=0%2C0

Yet, it seems that this 'opinion' has caused substantial controversy, with some accusing the Magazine of 'attention seeking elitism'.

http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/4586.html

So, just to make the subject of this thread crystal clear, I am asking if you mind that Killzone 2 has been given 7/10? Will it affect your purchasing decision? Will you wait and see it in action before you pre-order it? Are you not bothered as you only want it for Multiplayer? Is Edge being elitist, or is it getting flamed by a lot of ignorant PS3 fanboys who have only played the demo?

p.s. I did a search for reactions to Edge's review, but found nothing...

 

[NAL]

Edge always seems to review games lower than most. I guess it's their own rating system though - Killzone 2's been getting a lot of 10/10s, yet it's far from perfect.

 

[Syphonz]

Edge can get pretty picky in their reviews, so a 7/10 for KZ2? Not bad.

 

[Starnerf]

Follow me here.

7/10 = B.

B = Good.

Is B a low mark to be given away nowadays? I wish I had some B's once in a while in maths.

Pah, this won't be affecting me as I:

1) Don't pay attention to reviews.
2) Don't own a PS3.
3) I'm sick of generic FPS's.

Actually that's a C. An 8 would be a B. And i don't really care what Killzone gets, since I'll never play it. But Edge is known for being tougher with their numbers than most other reviwers.

 

[oliveira8]

I think Killzone 2 when it finally comes out will suffer from Halo 3 syndrome with everyone saying how awesome it is and a few months later "meh it was ok".

Also we need more reviews that are down to earth...seems like every big title in this console generation gets big numbers...

 

[Singing Gremlin]

EVERY Killzone review is getting more hate from PS3 owners than anyone else. One place gave it a 10/10 and still had PS3 owners bitching. Of course there were the cretinous xbox fanboys there too, but this is hilarious.

 

[PhoenixFlame]

This is part of why I'm not a big fan of the numerical review system. It's hard to really quantify what really is a 7 vs. a 6 or a 3 vs. a 4. Even an 8 vs. a 9. I think that having numbers with arbitrary standards for determining what numbers they are makes things confusing and ambiguous.

Honestly, I would feel better with a scale of Really bad to Really good, or the escapist's buy it/rent it/leave it system, because they reduce the kind of confusing idea of whether or not a 7 is considered good or not.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

It's Edge Magazine. The only people who write harsher reviews are Destructoid.

 

[Flour]

Follow me here.

7/10 = B.

B = Good.

Is B a low mark to be given away nowadays? I wish I had some B's once in a while in maths.

Pah, this won't be affecting me as I:

1) Don't pay attention to reviews.
2) Don't own a PS3.
3) I'm sick of generic FPS's.

Current rating systems make a 7/10(or 3/5) a near failure.
Anything under 7/10(or 3/5) means "don't buy this game".

 

[djpuppylove789]

if you guys really care about what someone else thinks about a game you should really have your brains scanned. the way i see it, i look at a review and if the game seems fun i will play it. if i like it, im happy. if the game isnt fun, i sell it. plain and simple. what some pretension jerkoff at a gaming magazine who probably couldnt design a game if his life depended on it thinks about the game really doesnt shift my opinion one way or another. i only use them as a way to find a game i think is fun, but usually i just ask some friends and such.

 

[Aardvark]

I tried the demo and was bored by it. It's just another generic shooter. Pretty, by any standards, but still just another shooter. Not so much a Halo killer as it is another Halo.

My search for a single stand-out title to justify my PS3 purchase continues. Until then, whenever anyone asks, I say "Wall-E".

 

[Izerous]

Rating systems by magazines are never a real rating. Whens that last time you saw them ran anything below a 5 in a magazine. They are chickens that are afraid of rating a game for what it deserves. That is why I find ZP, Jeremy Clarkson etc and a few others interesting because when they look at something they don't sit there and powder it up for you. They become brutally honest whether it is good or bad.

 

[oliveira8]

And a big "lol" to the fanboy rant in the psx magazine.

 

[Librarian Mike]

I think having tougher standards for reviewing is a positive step towards legitimizing game criticism. I was looking at a recent issue of Gamepro, and the first 4-5 reviews were all perfect scores. Granted, I haven't played all of those games, but they can't all be classics, can they?

Zero Punctuation has helped, albeit in a humourous way, by picking apart sacred cows like Zelda, Halo, etc. Full disclosure: I haven't played Killzone 2, but I respect Edge for having the balls to call it like they see it instead of simply looking at Metacritic and basing their score on the average.