Kotaku
The creator of a cool new gaming blog called The Game Chair just pointed me to his interesting review system. Instead of writing a single review at the end of his experience, Seth Giammanco writes up a series of reviews at pivotal moments in the game.
For instance with Metroid Prime, he wrote separate reviews about what he thought of the game so far three times while going through the Sanctuary Fortress. The cool thing is that these sort of mini reviews are then combined and averaged to give you a better sense of what the entire game was like. While this is a much more work intensive process, it does help point out the highlights and low points of a game and probably give you a more accurate overall picture of the game as a whole. I'm liking the idea, but not all the reading it takes to get to the points.
Interestingly, Seth uses the same system for games that don't really change. For instance he wrote two reviews of Electroplankton, one for right after he got it and another much later in the game. The game's review dropped a bit, but still held up to scrutiny and that's important to know.
Electroplankton
First play [The Game Chair]
