More fascinating fodder for the 7-9 game review scale debates! Joystiq has posted a list of the top 10 games according to their aggregate review scores on Game Rankings. They are:

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64, Nintendo, 97.8 avg. review)
2. Soul Calibur (DC, Namco, 96.4 avg. review)
3. Metroid Prime (GC, Nintendo, 96.3 avg. review)
4. Tekken 3 (PSX, Namco, 96.3 avg. review)
5. GoldenEye 007 (N64, Nintendo, 96.0 avg. review)
6. Resident Evil 4 (GC, Capcom, 95.9 avg. review)
7. Super Mario 64 (N64, Nintendo, 95.8 avg. review)
8. Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox, Microsoft Game Studios, 95.7 avg. review)
9. Resident Evil 4 (PS2, Capcom, 95.7 avg. review)
10. Half-Life 2 (PC, VU Games, 95.6 avg. review)

As they note, what's interesting about the list is how few games from previous generations there are, or how no portable game makes this list. It looks to me as if reviewers tend to discount portable games as less serious, and therefore less worthy of a high score, than their console or PC counterparts.

So did the reviews for games of previous gens use a wider slice of the scale, or are games just objectively better now? What do you guys think? Florian Eckhardt

Current top 10 cumulative game rankings [Joystiq]

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