I"m going to play this for Xbox One, and I really enjoyed Black Ops and Black Ops 2. But I noticed something funny in a commercial that just aired during Monday Night Football. There's a splash screen of scores near the end of the commercial, and I knew critical reception had been kind of tepid. So I froze the screen as best I could.
The most prominent score displayed is a big "100" set dead-cetner in the screen. It's from something called "Zoo" that I'm not that familiar with. If I was forced to guess, I think that's a British "lad mag," like the US's Maxim?
The other displayed 100s are from places called "God Is a Geek" and "Biogamer Girl." I have no ideas what these are. Publications? Youtube channels? Blogs like mine? The final 100 is from "Nuts."
The National Post, a Canadian newspaper I equate with the US's USA Today, gave it a 90. USA Today itself is placed in the center with an 87.5 The other outlets I recognize, Machinima and another Canadian national paper The Globe and Mail, are among the low end of displayed scores at 85.
Other featured outlets, with scores ranging from the 90s to 85, are a ton of places I've never heard of. Here's a sampling:
Canadianonlinegamers, Gamevortex, Gaming Age, Gamealive.com, Gamereactor Portugal, Jeuxactu, Eurogamer Portugal, Xboxlife.DK, Xboxlive.fr, 9lives.be, NZ Gamer, Gaming Illustrated. IGN's score is on screen for maybe a third of a second.
My point is, if you want to make a commercial with review scores, you can probably find enough places from which you can cherry-pick.
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