Here's the link to 1up's synopsis, which is pretty good.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3162602

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[QUOTE="jayfi33"]And from a critical standpoint, they basically removed the opportunity to score the game a 9.8, saying it is the best of the series, or a 9.3 saying it is the weakest. I actually dont take much stock in reviews, i just find it curious as to why they altered a system that allowed them to make a distinction like i described above. jayfi33

Misconceptions like that are part of why they changed the review system. People would often look at a score for one game that got, say, an 8.4 and then at another game that got maybe an 8.6 and interpret that as if GameSpot was saying that the 8.6 game was unquestionably better than the 8.4 game, when that's just not the case. Both numbers were just GameSpot's way of saying that those are great games.

I understand that GS is saying that all Halo games are superb by having them all score in the mid 9's, but there is no way you can tell me that if you give a game a 9.4 and another game in the same series of games a 9.8 that the 9.8 is not considered a "better" game from a critical standpoint. I think by changing the review system it was a cowardly way out of having to make those kind of decisions. So from now on everything short of perfect will get a 9.5. Ittakes some of the luster/interest/spice (whatever word you'd like to put in there)away from the review system in my opinion.

Fair enough. Personally I just think this is a smarter way to do it. Reviewing games isn't a science and the numbers before were too precise and almost made it seem like it was being treated as a a science. Nobody ever says that movie critics or music critics or anything should rate things on a 91-point scale. A 19-point scale is still plenty precise enough to give a clearidea of a game's quality in my opinion.

I don't think talking about hardcore we are is really going to lead to much interesting discussion, but in any case there arealready threads for discussion of all things Halo 3-related. Please use them. Thanks.

There's already a thread just a little ways down the page about this very same thing, called "Halo 1 and 2 synopsis." Please refer to that thread, and perhaps check out this synopsis that 1up put together.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3162602

http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?GamerTag=Gamespotting

heheheh.

Watching theathre film.

Whats that supposed to mean?

army-of_one

I'm not sure, but I really don't think this needs its own thread. And in any case, there are already threads for discussion of Halo 3 stickied at the top of the forum. Thanks.

And from a critical standpoint, they basically removed the opportunity to score the game a 9.8, saying it is the best of the series, or a 9.3 saying it is the weakest. I actually dont take much stock in reviews, i just find it curious as to why they altered a system that allowed them to make a distinction like i described above. jayfi33

Misconceptions like that are part of why they changed the review system. People would often look at a score for one game that got, say, an 8.4 and then at another game that got maybe an 8.6 and interpret that as if GameSpot was saying that the 8.6 game was unquestionably better than the 8.4 game, when that's just not the case. Both numbers were just GameSpot's way of saying that those are great games.