Scoring System
Each review of a game or product is given a score out of ten. PCPowerPlay has given 10/10 scores to Psychonauts, Civilization IV, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Medieval II: Total War, BioShock, Crysis, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, Far Cry 2, the Fallout Collection (featured in the 'Bargain Bin' section of the mag), Mass Effect 2, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. A 10/10 game is connoted not as a perfect game but as a "masterpiece with flaws". The 10/10 system is a system which replaced the old system of percentages. PCPP states "what was the difference between a game which gets 95% and a game that gets 96%?" Yet this was precisely what people argued about. Under the previous percentage system, only Wolfenstein 3D ever received 100% (actually a 10/10 but converted to 100% when printed in review score summaries in later issues), while the next closest, 98%, were given to Deus Ex, Falcon 4.0, Half-Life, System Shock 2, Total Annihilation, and Unreal.
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