Quote Originally Posted by Mistress Victoria View Post

You can still go to GameSpot/IGN, but don't look at the website review scores, pay attention to the 'user scores', and take a look at some of the 'user reviews'. Some of them are written quite well, and some of them are crap. So you kinda can get a little guess of if you will like the game or not.

User Reviews - on Gamespot at least - tend to be higher than even the aggregate of professional reviews. Which I would say is another good thing to look at, at Gamespot, therefore the person whom is intrigued by a game has two averages to look at.

Some of the "user reviews" may be well written, but that is just some of them.

I haven't had much problem with how Gamespot has rated the games that I have bought as I kind of see eye-to-eye most of the time. Plus I actually read the review which allows me to sift through what is more biased talk and what is more objective.

Instead of looking at one source for a game's review, go to many to get a feel for the game - that is what should be taken away.