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    • GamingExcellence » Ratings Guide
    GamingExcellence - Ratings Guide.
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    Our ratings guide has been tuned over the years to provide a simple and easy-to-understand scoring breakdown for each review. We strive to maintain a streamlined scoring process, and each review is checked both for content and scoring by an Editor. With that said, each member of our team is different, each with a different background and opinions. We value this diversity, as it gives our reviews a unique perspective.

    The scoring system we use is broken down into a variety of different categories and score ranges. These are described below.

    The Categories
    Presentation
    This category reflects the overall look and feel of the product. It includes ease-of-installation, manuals and other documentation, navigation, and cutscenes, and overall polish.

    Visual
    The visual category reflects the overall quality of the graphics, shaders, lighting, modelling, textures, and performance. This can also take into account artistic design.

    Audio
    The quality of the musical score, background composition or compilation, sound effects, and overall ambience.

    Gameplay
    Gameplay is really the core of any title. This category reflects the overall entertainment value, learning curve, and fun factor of a game.

    Replay Value
    The replay value denotes the overall play time of a game before you'll want to put it down. A high score in this category is very reflective on the overall score of the title.

    Scoring Ranges
    10.0 - Perfect
    Although not theoretically impossible, it's incredibly rare for a game to be perfect in every facet. We've never given a perfect ten.

    9.0 - 9.9 - Excellent
    A game receiving this score comes highly recommended, it really doesn't get much better then this.

    8.0 - 8.9 - Great
    A score which falls in this range is recommended, especially for fans of the genre. They are well polished games offering good value and enjoyment.

    7.0 - 7.9 - Good
    These titles are very solid and somewhat enjoyable in the least.

    6.0 - 6.9 - Decent
    A game into this range isn't necessarily for everyone, mainly those who enjoy the genre or series.

    5.0 - 5.9 - Mediocre
    Games which fall into this range are lacking in features and/or need definite improvement.

    Below 5.0 - Terrible
    Don't even think about it. Not recommended in any way, shape, or form.