If you have already been to Gamespot's main page today you have probably noticed on the latest news tab that Gamespot is changing both its game pages design and its rating system.
The game pages actually look pretty cool with lots of information, and it is always nice to see different things. I didn't like the changes on the rating system, if you are wondering what changes I'm talking about I'll explain.
First of all, the ratings will no longer be based on graphics, gameplay, sound, replay and tilt, all those categories are now gone, it doesn't mean that they will not evaluate those aspects of the games anymore, they will keep taking all those characteristics in account when giving the final score, the big difference is that without having to give score for each one of those categories they will have more freedom to rate a game.
Second, the scores will be given in half-point increments, which means that scores like 8.3, 7.8, 9.7 will not be used anymore, that's what I didn't like. I know it is hard to say that a 7.4 game is better than a 7.3 one, but for me there is a big difference between a game that scores 9.7 and one that gets a 10.
The best thing about this change is that games will now get emblems, similar to those on our profiles,based on their prowess and weaknesses, I liked it a lot, it will be much easier to decide whether you buy a certain game or not if you don't have time to read a full review.
The changes will be implemented on June 25th. If you want you can check Jeff's profile for more information.