The Metacritic and Open Critic scores currently sits at 93! Great job by Bluepoint -- AS ALWAYS!
That being said, a major observation and issue that I have with these sites (or any review aggregate site) is that you have some review sites using a 4 or 5 star system for their grading. For instance, Games Radar uses a 5-Star Rating system and gives SotC 4 out of 5 stars. Metacritic interprets that as an 80. Likewise, Open Critic puts the Daily Mirror score in the same position on its site -- a 4 out of 5 star review bringing the average down even though the Daily Mirror calls the game a "Masterpiece".
That is complete nonsense because when you read these reviews, there is almost nothing that they have criticism with, so if these reviews used a percentage out of 100 , the score would be much higher than an 80! The way Metacritic interprets the 4 out of 5 stars brings down the average score completely unfairly. That is why people really need to READ reviews and take a look at the scores as a whole, rather than in a vacuum. I always look at the low scores on a critically acclaimed game or high scores on a universally panned game and I often see interpretations by the aggregate sites that do not match up to the reviews they are posting and it was just bothering me this morning when checking out SotC scores.
