23rd July 2003, 10:39 AM
Perhaps if they had only one reviewer doing all of the reviews it would be alright, but since you get different people doing single-person reviews, you can't compare the scores to each other because each person has different tastes. So if Reviewer A gives Half-Life 2 a score of 95% and Reviewer B gives DX2 a score of 90%, it would be impossible to tell which game is better because for all you know Reviewer A might be more forgiving in his reviews, and Reviewer B might actually like DX2 more than HL2, but since he's much tougher with his reviews he didn't give the game he considers superior to HL2 a higher score than the other guy did. It's a huge mess!