Videogame Reviews - Playing With Numbers?

Thanks to NTSC-uk for its editorial discussing the possible confusion in using numbered rating schemes for videogame reviews. The author rhapsodizes: "No number can possibly capture the striking vision of the sun setting over Hyrule Field or the ingenious brilliance of Metal Gear Solid's interactive references to reality", before going on to conclude: "Treated as numbers with a defined value, they will always be looked down upon as having deficiencies. Yet when you read them as you would a word and open it up to your own interpretation, they begin to fully deliver the explanatory potential that is locked within." Do you think numbered ratings have an important place at the end of game reviews?

Comments

Rating Article

[Jebediah21]

I give the article a 62.

You know Id be happy with a system

[happyhippy]

that just told you how much the reviewer has been bribed. One star for T-shirts or free games, upto five stars for cash or promises for tickets to expos.