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The story
Marvel’s Wolverine’s Metascore on the Western review-aggregation site has dropped from around 90 right after launch down to 78, sparking discussion on 5channel’s hardware/industry (“Geha”) board. Posters pointed out that this makes it the lowest-rated game yet from developer Insomniac Games, whose past titles (the Spider-Man series) scored in the mid-to-high 80s to 90. Meanwhile, users shared that major outlets like IGN and GameSpot were consistently landing around 60. The discussion centered less on the score swing itself than on distrust of the review criteria, with some questioning Metascore’s reliability altogether and others noting that reviews commonly complained the game was “linear” and “lacking in content.”
What people said
If it's 80, that's a solid game.
Back in the PS3 era some no-name developer made a Wolverine game too, and that one only got like a 70 on Metascore.
An 80 without NBP is a good game.
Buy it without hesitation.
"Wolverine Metascore 80 lol"
tps://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1789052515/
They're past caring about appearances at this point!
That's one foot in shovelware territory — a mediocre game.
Guess it doesn't have that easy-to-grasp gameplay Spider-Man had.
Let's leave it up for the lulz.
Isn't that kinda low?,
So the 90 was just from that early perfect-score review skewing it?
Spending less money on games these days.
Marvel’s Wolverine Review – “I’m the Best There Is at What I Do, Bub”
https://gamingbolt.com/marvels-wolverine-review-im-the-best-there-is-at-what-i-do-bub
Isn't that the site that gave that other game a perfect 100?
FF16 was actually fun though.
That just reads as "someone got paid off," lol.
To think the money saved by cutting Kojima loose is being spent on stuff like this… kind of makes you tear up.
No, it's OP's head that's bugged.
Also getting a "wait, that's it?" vibe like the game's short on content.
From what I can tell it just feels like a beat-'em-up brawler made 3D.
Spider-Man — 87
Miles Morales — 85
Spider-Man Remastered — 87
Spider-Man 2 — 90
Wolverine — 77
The big outlets are absolutely trashing it, lol
60 — IGN
60 — VGC
60 — GameSpot
60 — GamesRadar+
60 — Eurogamer
60 — Guardian
Lol, don't you know Eurogamer hasn't given numeric scores for over a decade now?
Trust in corporate reviews hit zero back around The Last of Us Part II.
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
Metascore isn’t a simple average of all reviews — it’s a weighted calculation based on each outlet’s standing, so right after launch the number can swing a lot from just a handful of reviews. In this case, the average was initially pushed up to around 90 by early positive reviews, then dropped to 78 once major outlets like IGN and GameSpot added scores around 60. Opinions in the thread were split: some argued skeptically that “the score depends on how much ad money a publisher spends with a given outlet,” while others felt “the score itself is fair — the linear content just didn’t land well.” Note that the comparison chart of past titles also included some outdated information — for instance, treating Eurogamer as still giving numeric scores when it actually stopped doing so years ago — so it shouldn’t be taken entirely at face value.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “Wolverine Metascore 90 lol — ‘A Tour de Force with Top-Tier Action’”.
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