[General Discussion] The Death of the Game Review

Reviews are a resource and even if you can't trust every source from which they come, there's no harm in factoring them in an overall purchase decision. It's interesting to compare and contrast different views, especially when demos don't do the things that JazzFlight has pointed out. Reviews in an age where we have massive amounts of media to scrutinize a game from every perspective are as much a tool now as they were back then, we just don't place so much importance on them.

There isn't ever going to be one definitive source for a game. Some games don't have demos released, some games have media which only misleads the consumer. You have to be a smart consumer, declaring game reviews as dead is asinine.

Jam it back in, in the dark.