I just looked up the reviews for Warhawk, on PS3. Users gave it an 8.5. Except that Gamespot thinks that Warhawk for PS3 is the same game as Warhawk for PS1, so the 8.5 User Review score is an average of how people rated the PS1 version from fifteen years ago and how people rated the PS3 version from today.
So what use is the 8.5 score information? Pretty much none. Could be that both versions got an average 8.5. Could be that the PS3 version got an average 9.3, but the few people rating the PS1 version gave it a 6.0 and brought the whole score down. Or the other way around. No way to know.
Is there any way to see the breakdown between the versions? Nope.
Is this just confined to this game? Nope. Every multi-platform game now has an aggregate User Score across the platforms. So the average User Review score is completely useless for any game with multiple versions. Even if the other version is a handheld, it all gets lumped into one score, no matter how different the various versions are.
Why did Gamespot make this change to their site, which pretty much craps on the users who take the time to rate a multi-platform game? I have no idea. On the old site, every multi-platform game had a "home page" where there was a convenient box that showed all the Gamespot and User Reviews for each version of a game. It was beautiful. But it got "fixed."
Is Gamespot going to correct this? A couple of weeks ago, when I first raised this, edgework from the site got on my thread and said that the User Reviews were going to get better. Maybe he meant that the font for the numbers would get prettier? Sigh.
Why aren't more people pissed about this? I'm guessing they don't realize it. But if enough people do, and voice their opinion, it'll be changed. I think. I hope.
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