And seriously, it only can go wrong. All situations are just dressed to kill.

- Halo 3 scores over a 9.5.
The entire Halo community will break lose, kill the Halo 3 message boards and leave it for Gears of War and other 3rd/1st Person Shooters scoring over a 9.2/9.5... They'll yell "HALO 3 GOT A 10!!!!". Topics will arrise about it beating Gears of War with 0.4. Achieving the perfect score. Crap like that. That's feeding an hurricane.

- Halo 3 scores a 9.5.
All hell will break loose, and parties will be chosen. The "We want it to have a 10" side, and "We're happy with it as it is". A mini-system wars will break out on that specific board. The Gears of War fanboys will overun both parties yelling that Gears got a 9.6, making it better than Halo 3, which will erupt into another battle.And, most likely GameSpot reviewer Jeff Gerstmann will have alot of trash trown at him. Since he'll probally be reviewing it.

- Halo 3 scores a 9.0.
The Halo community will kill the boards whining about a crappy score. Gears of War fanboys will hog the bandwagon of peacekeepers by invading the Halo 3 boards. An war will rise. And sides will be chosen. Those who think it earned better, those who think it's fine and those who care too damn much about a reviewers opinion.

- Halo scores less than a 9.0
Impossible, suicidal move by Cnet. Never gonna happen. Or is it?

Yeah, can you make this sound positive? Well, I am sorry to say; But then you're my fellow hippy.