Edge 161 Scores

[Geoff D]

They did admit that Goldeneye N64 should have got one as well.

[craptest]

Thanks guys. I was uncertain as the short lived crappy Australian EDGE started giving out 10s like they were going out of fashion (3 in one issue!!!)

Of those 5 games awarded 10, which titles (if any) do you think should be stripped of the honour given the benefit of hindsight?

[Stoise]

Given the other games at the time, I personally think they all deserved it. However, were they released now, obviously that wuld not be the case - all of them have influenced (significantly) todays games.

[Kaladron]

Mario 64 is probably the only one that still deserves a 10. There hasn't been a genre shifting platform game since.

[Concept]

Over the last decade... Super Mario 64, Final Fantasy VII, Ocarina of Time, ICO and GTA: San Andreas all deserve a ten.

I can only agree with two from the Edge 10 list. I think Halo and Half-Life 2 are great games, but in retrospect they aren't quite tens.

[Team Andromeda]

They did admit that Goldeneye N64 should have got one as well.

Also I'll never know how SAGA or PSO were never given a 10 and in my view Exhumed, Rayman II (almost as good as Mario IV) , Yoshi Island , RSG, ICO, REZ and Duke Nukem 3D should have got a 10 in EDGE

[Oh_Mutants]

Rayman II (almost as good as Mario IV)... should have got a 10 in EDGE

Is it April 1st already??

[Tetsuo]

Haha!

[Team Andromeda]

Is it April 1st already??

Well I'm being deadly serious, Raman II the only 3D platfrom game that comes close to Mario 64 , and the DC version still looks mint today. It was also pretty stunning onthe N64 too .

[Yoshimax]

I'm with TeamAndromeda on that one - dunno about a 10 I'd say it was definately worth a 9 though. Superb game - oodles of variety (the star wars bit was ace) and the graphics were exceptional - I can imagine via VGA it would still look (and play) awesome today.

They ****ed up with Rayman3 though which was gutting

[TheForce]

Well I'm being deadly serious, Raman II the only 3D platfrom game that comes close to Mario 64

you give the answer yourself why it didn't deserve a 10 of of 10 mark...... (it was still an great game though !...)

only game imo that should have deserved an 10 was Goldeneye .

[mid]

FF7, Ico and GTA all have plenty enough wrong with them to make them unworthy of the Ten status, I'd say. I've no problem with them being Nines, so I'm not about to go on a full-scale slanging match at them, but in each case I'd hold off the perfect score. FF7 offers little over FF6 other than lots of FMV, Ico has a whole bunch of platform jumpy bits that are really annoying with their camera system and GTA suffers from a really slow first third and generally failed to grab in the way Vice City did.

[Team Andromeda]

you give the answer yourself why it didn't deserve a 10 of of 10 mark...... (it was still an great game though !...)

only game imo that should have deserved an 10 was Goldeneye .

No not really Rayman II a 10 out of 10 game in my eye's . Mario 64 was like Mario 4 sheer perfection , one can't see how they could be made any better .
Rayman II was almost there, but the 3D camera system wasn't as good as that seen in 64 (the only flaw inthe whole game). But the gameplay was there , and thats all that counts in my eye's

God only nows what happend with Rayman III though, it was sh8t

[muse hunter]

review scores should be taken light heartedly, an opinion of one person isn't infallible, in that case many games in my opinion should be given 10/10 - mario 64, shenmue, mario world, gta vice city, and of course the aforementioned goldeneye. However EDGE and many of their readers take the scoring system too seriously, the mark a game gets isn't just an opinion but a score that reflects the overall quality of the game, the 10/10 mark is sacred and should be used sparingly. But with the way that EDGE views the way it scores games should any game be worthy of 10/10? as 10/10 would assume perfection. But even the most genre defining games available throughout history each has their own flaws which moves it ever so far away from perfection, in the end perfection is unattainable. So whats the point in marking out of 10 when realistically the best any game can get is a 9? Review scores should be taken as opinion only and nothing else, so maybe there is no need for a scoring system at all.

[Tetsuo]

Well, a 10/10 is (was?) only given by Edge to games specifically deemed "revolutionary", so Rayman II ( ) shouldn't and wouldn't have ever been given 10/10, even if it was really, really good.