I feel like a contrarian on this board on this board, but I dislike Metacritic. It is essentially little more than a bargaining chip for publishers, "make this game have a Metacritic score over 80, and you get a bonus". BS, especially when a lot of the time the website doesn't even represent a game review's score like the reviewer would want it to (eg. B- gets put up as a 75, a 4 out of 5 is shown as an 80) even when the reviewer as been noted to politely ASK for the score to be changed.Here ,you get the best games on the planet
IGN has been kinda fishy for me lately.
I like 1up.com (formerly home of the now defunct Games for Windows: the official magazine aka:Computer Gaming World) and Giantbomb.com
I almost completely agree with the official review of Civ 5 that 1up has on its website.
