After seeing the review for the Pacific Rim video game, I started to wonder if the game would have just been an original monster vs robot fighting game, would it have still gotten a 3.5?  And the answer is... absolutely not.  I believe the shortcomings like not enough stages, characters, and glitchy combat would have been overlooked just because of how awesome and fun it is to fight with huge monsters and robots.  The score probably would have been somehwere between 6.5 and 8.5.  But because everyone has seen or at least heard of the movie, the awe factor is gone.  Not only that, but the thrill of playing a game and playing in a world no one else knows about (other than people who are also playing the game) does not exist.  You're playing something mainstream.  Almost no game can be good enough to overcome this.  Combined with the expextaions people already have for the game to be as good as the movie, I wonder why developers even try.  Well not really, they do it for money I suppose.  Lots of money. 

P.s.  Sorry about the short and rambling article, but I don't feel like editing it or adding anything.  Yeah I'm lazy

It's a way to actually get value for trading in games. You sell your game directly to another person, which means the amount he paid for it, you get. It's much better than gamestop giving you 45 cents for a game and then selling it for 14.99. I'm assuming that just most people don't know about it. It should be advertised more.