Thank God!!! Close to perfect controls and great gameplay add up to a great game. Why the 8.5 though GameSpot?

User Rating: 9.5 | Metroid Prime 3: Corruption WII
The first thing you notice about MP3 is how un spectacular the graphics are. I am sorry but it 's the truth. The good news is that 2 minutes late it does not matter. This game controls exactly how you want it to, which is pretty impressive. It makes me sad to play a FPS with standard controlls now. The graphics get a lot better further along you go. The gameplay is awesome, boss battles are great and unlike Hunters, there is quite a bit of exploration. This game took me by surprise. I fully expected to be disapointed. My question for Gamespot is why and 8.5? For all of the games that get bad reviews on count pf bad controlls this game has absolutely stellar controlls and gets an 8.5. I am not saying that controlls alone should merit a higher score, but putting everything that this game has together should equal more than 8.5. Oh well, they gave Twilight an 8.8 and Bioshock a 9.0. They must hate good games.