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The Metacritic score for Marvel’s Wolverine, the new action game from Insomniac Games, has dropped from around 80 at launch into the upper 70s — sparking discussion on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board. Major outlets like IGN, Eurogamer, and GameSpot all scored it in the 60s, cited as a key factor behind the drop. The thread saw a mix of reactions, from distrust of big review sites’ scoring standards to comparisons with past titles from other Sony-owned studios.
What people said
how much more bad news is coming…
Insomniac really screwed this one up
How long is this festival gonna go on
If even IGN the yes-man gave it a 60, that's bad
all gave it 60
Bit late to be saying that now
that's genuinely a shovelware-tier score
guess even the outlets hesitated to score it high
Give that man a cushion! lol (a TV variety-show gag for a good joke)
That was good — here, have some arm hair as a reward
78 is rough lmaooo
that's like a 7/7/6/6 in Famitsu terms (Famitsu's four-critic review format)
Wonder what Famitsu would've actually given it lol
Should've given him butt hair too
Making a game actually hold together with voxels that brutal on performance takes real technical skill and design sense
Too late for that already, as usual
It went from 71 to 78, and somehow still dropped a point 😭
Looks like they've already picked who's getting laid off next
Ha, I can't wait
for the PlayStation faithful to turn on them
PlayStation fanboy: "I always thought Insomniac was no good. SIE isn't wrong. Trash studio."
Background and talking points
Metacritic’s overall score is a weighted average of scores from participating outlets, and right after launch there are only a handful of reviews counted, so the number can swing sharply as new reviews come in. The “drop from the 80s into the upper 70s” discussed in the thread is largely just this kind of mid-aggregation fluctuation, and the final settled score could still move further. It’s a recurring topic in the gaming industry that big review outlets’ scores diverge from how players actually feel about a game, and this thread followed that same pattern — but the idea floated in the thread that a specific publisher is manipulating scores is pure speculation with no supporting evidence, and should be treated with caution. The background also touches on the large-scale layoffs developer Insomniac Games underwent in the past.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry board) thread “Wolverine’s Metascore Hits 80 wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
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