That's not really unusual, user reviews practically always look like that. I suspect it's why sites like youtube moved away from star rating systems and toward up/down voting instead since that's how most people treat the system anyway. Worth noting though that in spite of the messed up distribution the average score is…
The metacritic user reviews are pretty funny: I wonder what it looks like when you take away all the 1 and 10 scores. Metacritic should add a system to user reviews where you have to scan your UPC code to prove ownership.
Just curious, have you actually played a release build of The Order? Most of the reviews I read said the cover system worked well- Just that it was derivative. For the record, I have only played cover shooters for a combined 30 minutes of my life and they have never pulled me in.
Nope. Gears had a very very good take on the cover mechanic based shooter, varied gameplay with vehicle sections and boss fights and the train run and the swarming night creatures stuff and such. The vast majority of that 8 hours - although I remember more - was pure gameplay and not cinematics or QTE. And almost all of it…
It shows that 10 point scales don't really work. I think most games or movies fall under a system like this (no stars) Complete waste of time * Not good unless it's your niche and can look over the faults ** Mediocre, fans of the genre might like it *** Good, definitely worth the cost, fans of the genre will really enjoy…
And on top of that, it has actually worked flawlessly, the character is under your complete control all the time - whereas in The Order it's not nearly as good, unfortunately. Another good example is the first Mass Effect and it's sequel - the shooting and cover mechanics and AI in 1 are atrocious, but the rest of the game…