I was thinking the other day about how much influnce game review web sites like GameSpot,IGN and magazines like EGM, Gameinformer and the likehave in your decisions to buy or not to buy a certain game. If for example you played a demo of a game and enjoyed it but later onfound out it got terrible reviews what would you do ? The reason I ask is because I had this happen to me once. The game is called Future Tactics and to me its a fun tactics game that introduced some cool game play ideas. I had the demo from my Playstation mag and I will admit when I first played the demo I did'nt really get it but I thought I would give it a few more trys before I pass judgment. I liked the idea of the game and generally I like tactics games. Well I finally got what the game play was about and started to enjoy the game even though it was'nt finished. When the game was released some time later as a budget title it recieved manily bad reviews. Since I liked the demo I decided to go ahead and buy the game and play through it. I really enjoyed the whole game except one tiny thing. The robot dude which had some very abilities left after I had maxed him out ! Yeah that stung a bit but it did not deter me from finishing the game which was more difficult because the robot was gone. Well I went back and started to read a-lot of the reviews and I was wondering if the so called reviews had played even half the game ? I thought it was interesting that I found one review that was positive that said the same thing I was thinking. Now what I did was not really that brave considering the cost only 20 dallors but when you have a game costing 60 dallors it gets a bit harder to take a chance. I guess renting is the best bet when it comes to the 60 dallor games. How do you approach your buying decisions and do you think you have missed out on games you might have liked because of reviews ?