never trusted scores... not from gamming sites.. and even less from user scores, and even less from metacritic.

I think it's cause it was overhyped, like most games these days. Personally I like the game, it's not revolutionary and I hate how my high end pc can't run it on max cause of the optimalization issues. But it's a nice game I would give it 8/10

its just as with Rome 2. It was release buggy and unplayable, but critic reviews had like 90% while user reviews score were at 30-40. And users were right!

I do not recognize Metacritic as a legitimate website for game reviews. In fact, I don't recognize a lot of gaming websites as legitimate reviewers. Just as well, decimal ratings and 1(0)-100 ratings are the worst kinds of ratings and they don't deserve a place in a review of anything. When you have such a large amount of numbers to rate something, what's the difference between a 95 and a 96? And decimal ratings; What's the difference between 7.9 and 8? Not a damn thing, it's just foolishness.

TBH guys...I were so hyped for the game,then ingame...WELL its obviously not as much fun as I'd expect :/ I find the stomping land and the forest WAY more enjoyable ...

Agreed with others, Metacritic in the past has proven to be easily gotten into by anyone to just flood a game with good or bad reviews. Try gamerankings as it just gathers all the game journalism sites with it's ratings to see how something is.

http://www.gamerankings.com/ps4/704529-watch-dogs/index.html

Then again by now you shouldn't get over hyped for a game as they will rarely meet whatever expectations you might have.

The reason for it is that users give games 1 score because they don't like the nose of the main character, or because they ate too much potato salad.

That score is understandable. While performance wise it's fine for my system, the forced mouse acceleration has made it unplayable for me. We need a patch soon and I'm glad to know they are in the process of making one (I just wish they could have had it ready by release...).

Well. this have teach me to never preorder a game anymore. ALSO F***K YOU UBISOFT!

recently i just give a fast look on metacritic score... and mostly look on user's reviews on steam and overall rating of user's voting, cause for me it seems more reliable cause game get updates and stuff but metacritic score remains same ^^

I've just played through Watch_Dogs on my Xbox One.. Although it was locked to 30fps and some of the missions were mind-bendingly boring. I really enjoyed the majority of it... The MP is awesome though. I can see me playing it for a while xD

Who ever invented stealth driving should be fired instantly though lol

Scores are a bad system, users are idiots (every game has a bunch of honest reviews buried under a barrage of 0/10 and 10/10 for no reason), Metacritic is a bad way to decide whether you want to buy a game or not.

People complain about how hyped this game is, yet they are totally part of it. Complain about how bad the game (in your opinion) is and it will only make more people try the game.
You will always have over the top good and bad reviews. In the end you will always have to test it yourself. You can read all the reviews if you have the time, or just go ahead and read a handful of good, bad and middle reviews to give you a short summary. But in the end you will have to play it yourself. Like it? Go ahead and buy it. Don't like it? Uninstall. Move on.

Metacritic sucks and should die. The sooner the better. It helps people to make wrong assumptions, gets people fired from their jobs and lowers their wage. You can give your + or -, but you can not balance those for arbitrary score.
As proven again and again, do not trust review sites, plenty of them are bought. Users are somehow better but you have to watch out for overly positive or negative opinions, why usually show what the users want to believe rather than what he really does feel.

I'd say about 75% of the negative reviews are just people who are mad that it is badly optimized and forget that the game itself isn't bad, it's quite fun actually. And with the patch coming soon, I guess the ratings will go up a bit.

I'm having a blast playing it, couldn't care less for metacritic (or any other) score.

massive butthurt about "game doesnt run over ninethousand FPS on my geekfart PC" giving a score of zero. Fanbturd on the other end, amagawd haxx 11/10. If those even out the game won't go any higher than 75.

This game is really terrible and who say no it have to be unassuming console player. They have tons of trash and say it is good :D

It's funny because people say it's hard to drive in the game, It's so easy to drive. Maybe because they're so reckless when they drive?

Read the reviews!!!! Not the number at the end.

red reviews and not scores, the metascore can't be trusted, those are paid reviews. user score can't be trusted people love bandwagons and stampeding with the herd/flock

look up gameplay videos(hopefully you can find a lp that tags which videos contain major spoilers and isn't horribly obnoxious(you can at least mute for the later) ect.

never preorder anything

People get so butt hurt over the stupidest shit. Reviews don't mean shit. Play the game yourself and then decide. I haven't played it yet but two friends at work have been playing it and they said they have had a lot of fun with it. I'll buy it later when it's on sale.

I'm also tired of hearing the "Elite PC Race" crap. Get over yourself. Games are meant to be played to have fun not for fighting each other over who's machine is better. I use to be all console before I realized how much cheaper you could get games on PC. Yes they do look better but who really gives a shit. If it's fun then enjoy it and quit crying. I also still play games on console because there are some awesome exclusives that will never come to PC.

That's what happens to overhyped games that fail to deliver. I mean, if it was just a random game that popped out of nowhere, it would be quite a good game. But the exaggerated hype, the massive amount of $ involved, coupled with continuous delays (to "make it better"), for an average, non-polished, quite buggy game made people go berserk.

Most of its defects would be easily forgivable if it was released by a small indie-ish studio and priced accordingly. But you expect much more from a $70 would-be AAA title.