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[MarshMellow96]

Explain.

'But it’s not enough to say that Codemasters has simply done it again. The story here is Block, who by introducing Gymkhana becomes the acceptable face of Americanisation. With help from much-appreciated splitscreen support, his freestyle events take multiplayer, especially, to places previous Dirts only dreamt of. At best, they remind us who gave us Micro Machines. A vast, almost encyclopaedic look at the united nations of rally, Dirt 3 doesn’t feel definitive despite America – it wouldn’t feel definitive without it.'

 

[Anth0ny]

dat xenoblade

And I'm surprised at the 8 for Star Fox 64.

 

[Curufinwe]

Edge RPG 9s for current-gen consoles (DS, PSP, PC, 360, PS3, Wii, PC since Fall 2005, iOS):
Xenoblade Chronicles, as noted in thread.
Deus Ex: HR, if you want to count it, as noted in thread.
Bastion: http://www.next-gen.biz/reviews/bastion-review
Dragon Quest IX: http://www.next-gen.biz/reviews/dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-starry-skies-review
Mass Effect 2: http://www.next-gen.biz/reviews/review-mass-effect-2
Bowser's Inside Story (not online)
Demon's Souls: http://www.next-gen.biz/magazine/review-demons-souls (review appears to have been taken off their site)
Fable II: http://www.next-gen.biz/reviews/review-fable-ii
World of Warcraft: http://www.next-gen.biz/reviews/world-warcraft-review

I excluded the Zelda games as RPGs.

Not current gen, of course, but they gave Persona 4 a 9 in 2009. So it's actually more recent than Fable II.

 

[herod]

I wonder if there's some correlation between English developers creative choices and English critics tastes? You know, some kind of similar cultural upbringing that might explain a preference for content created by people who shared that same culture. Just a thought.

Possibly why we generally prefer watching soccer to gridiron as well?

I'm also reminded of the time when a US IGN reviewer gave Football Manager 2/10.

Is it xenophobia? Who is being xenophobic?

 

[Ushojax]

Driver: San Francisco 8/10

 

[Curufinwe]

I wonder if there's some correlation between English developers creative choices and English critics tastes? You know, some kind of similar cultural upbringing that might explain a preference for content created by people who shared that same culture. Just a thought.

Perhaps there is a correlation, but since Driver is currently sitting at 79 on Metacritic (and just got a healthy 4/5 from the decidely not English Jeff Gerstmann at Giant Bomb) the people in this thread who derided Edge and Euorgamer for being biased towards the UK-developed Driver: San Francisco might want to reconsider their kneejerk dismissal of the 8/10 scores from those publications.

The best is the Warhammer curve, both Eurogamer and RPS employ that pretty spectacularly.

Eurogamer just gave Space Marine 6/10.