The Flawless GTA
Posted by Stropp on April 18, 2008I was just reading a report on Game Politics about the Take Two shareholder meeting. Yep, I know. Boring stuff for most of you. You want commentary about games don’t you. Read on, there’s not much about the meeting there anyway.
It’s this snippet I’m interested in, a comment by T2 chairman Strauss Zelnick.
We’ve already received numerous [GTA IV] reviews, and to a one, they are perfect scores. My mom couldn’t write better reviews…
Maybe if he paid his mum more, she’d write better reviews.
I’ll make it clear first off that I haven’t played any of the Grand Theft Auto games. I play more MMORPGs than anything — and as we all know, a MMORPG doesn’t really leave time for other games — so aside from the the time deficit, the GTA games have never been my cup of tea.
Having said that, over the last few years, the GTAs have got some great reviews, and deservedly so. Rock Star has produced some dreck in the past, but Grand Theft Auto doesn’t qualify in that category.
But perfect. Sorry. There’s no such thing. And if game reviewers are giving 100%, 5/5, 17 thumbs up, or any other perfect score, then they aren’t doing their jobs.
With the recent controversies over Gamespot sacking reviewers because they gave games poor reviews and lost sponsors, how can players trust sites that give perfect scores? The first thing that came to my mind when I read the quote above was that Take Two must have been spreading the lurve around to get those ratings.
Nothing is flawless, not even GTA.
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Stropp…nice take, I have approached Rockstar Games for a review copy of GTA IV, as i have approached a number of PR companies for review copies of games just recently. I let you know if I get to review the game & I agree a perfect score should never be touted for a game.
Do you have the link to the news piece on the Gamespot sacking reviewers?
Thanks mate. I’m interested in hearing what you have to say about it, and the other games you’re reviewing. Good going by the way, it’s great what you’re doing with the journalism thing.
One of many links http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/35614/GameSpot-Fires-Jeff-Gerstmann-for-Bad-Review. The game in question was Kane and Lynch: Dead Men. Eidos had ads for it all over Gamespot and allegedly threatened to pull them. It doesn’t give game reviewers a good reputation really.
But you haven’t tried it, have you?
The odds are very high that this game is not perfect in any way – note, that does not mean it can’t be great.
The odds, however, shouldn’t really have any say in this sort of thing. I agree, no one should trust GameSpot, nor many other reviewers. But shouldn’t we wait for the game to actually come out?
You don’t *know*, it *might* be proof that God does in fact exist.
Seriously. It could. Anything is possible. You can’t deny that.
Hi Andor. Yep, it’s true. Anything is possible, and GTA IV may just be the first game in the history of all things gamey to be absolutely perfect. It may just bring mortal men, weeping, to their knees, cure world hunger, restore the worlds environmental balance, and discover the cure to ageing.
On the other hand, it may just be a very good game.
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