1) IMO Call of Duty 4 was a really good game, I play a lot of fps, I used to be a pc gamer but can't afford to keep my rig up to date now. I have been a fan of the call of duty games since playing the first one on the pc, and this was the only non-pc one I played. I felt that it deserved the score that it did because it was able to deliver the same solid fps action that the old ones did (if you played the old ones you should have had an idea of what to expect) with a modern day theme and implemented a bullet penetration system worked really well. Even the bullet penetration was not very accurate, like when shooting through walls that look like they are made of solid concrete and brick, but are apparently plaster, making you think there isn't a single piece of concrete in the game world. If compared to similar fps games, COD4 did deserve the high scores that it got, if you didn't like the game, it's not because the game sucked, rather it was because it didn't deliver the type of gameplay you enjoy. For example just because you don't think this is as fun as halo or some other fps, you can't directly compare the two game because they are so different.
2) GTA IV definitely did not deserve a perfect 10, although it was still an amazing game. With the introduction of the new generation of consoles, Rockstar decided to take their franchise into a new direction. Instead of delivering the same over the top action and having a story for the sole purpose of linking missions together, although if you watched the special edition intro to San Andreas you would know some thought was actually put into the story. Now Saints Row has become what the old GTA was and rockstar has made a much more realistic GTA. But with this decision it just seems that the fun factor which the old GTAs had just isn't there anymore. With the old GTAs it felt as though the world was your play ground where you could do anything you wanted, now the city seems to have a bit more control over you. I think that rockstar was trying to deliver the same experience as the game "MAFIA" did, which was an AMAZING game. Mafia delivered an amazing story with solid gameplay in a somewhat open world game leaving you wanting more, if anyone here played it you know what I'm trying to say here. But as GTA tried to incorporate some of the open world freedom from the older games with its new change in direction (like MAFIA), it kind of felt like a compromise between the two.
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