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A post on the SPOnG forums suggests that, in order to be the first to review titles and have the privilege of "Exclusive first review" on the cover - games magazines will often grant the game a high score, regardless of the actual quality of the title - the current culprit is none other than Atari and their recent title Driv3r for which they're apparently demanding a score of 9/10 in exchange for early review code.

There's been no confirmation - but just imagine if such things are true...

The post can be seen - here

im pretty certain that would be true, for one no1 loses that mag sells more copies for the "exclusive Review" and the game sells more copies because of the high score. Thats why i look on forums for a honest opinion b4 i part with my not so hard earned cash.

Sad but true I fear.

Unreal 2 anyone? A good game but hardly worthy of the 94% PC Zone granted it.

Pinched ;)

Me thinks the the legal eagles will have something to say.

SPOnG have more news on this accusation, including a response from Nick Ellis, deputy Editor of Xbox World, who said:

So - simple errors of judgement? It's always a possibility, although the accusation of the 8/10 score for Sonic and the fact that most of the early reviews scored it that way does appear suspicious...

I personally would say that the recent Sonic games do deserve their high scores. Not because of what review mags or sites that say or gave it to them, but because I played them all myself before even reading them and find they are fun & good games. Okay maybe this may seem like a biased opinion seeing as I'm a Sonic fan, but I hardly ever read reviews for console games as I just go ahead and test play them or buy them straight away. As for PC games, well thats a whole different matter.