Like White_sox said GS has only gave 6 games the score of 10 in 12 years. Everyone knew that GTA4 and MGS4 would be amazing games and probably score no less than a 9. I own both games and agree with the scores that both received. However, I really don't think that we will see another perfect score for quite some time. We have some contenders later in the year with Resistance 2, Gears of War 2, and Kill Zone 2 so I guess only time will tell.D-squared
Yeah... I doubt Gears of War 2 will recieve a 10/10 from Gamespot. It will probably be a 9.5 sort of game, like Halo 3 and Crysis. I don't have a PS3, so I won't be getting a chance to play MGS4 all the way through. However, I do have GTAIV, and I don't really think the game deserves a 10. It's really great, but the police chases were more fun in Need for Speed Most Wanted than in that, and motorcycles aren't given enough opprotunity to go at top speed. Niko is the best protagonist the series has seen thus far, and the writing (particularly the Pisswasser beer commercial) are comedic genius. I love GTAIV, it's a great game. I haven't played online yet, either, so perhaps that bit might change my mind. I still want the game to expand more beyond a mere crime simulator. While the game world feels very much alive and the work that went into the game is evinced by the excruciating detail (things like watching people actually go about their lives in the city), I don't belive you can really do enough with what you're given to warrant a perfect score. If a 10/10 means that there is nothing left to do to change the game significantly, then I can think of something. Let me have an amusing conversation with the crackhead under the bridge down the street instead of just letting me bring him Jacob's packages, or letting me shoot him to take his money. Make me serve some sort of prison sentence when a cop arrests me. Let me steal planes, I don't know. While GTAIV is the best in the series so far, it is not the perfect game that absolutely every critic says it is.
Call of Duty 4 is the only game I've played recently which I think deserves a 10, because the progression of your character, and the prizes unrelated to achievements really kept me coming back more for the intense action (which I don't think has gotten old yet. My total play time is something like 30 hours.)
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