IGN is a name that rarely needs introduction as one of the largest gaming news and review websites it has had ups and downs though the newest controversy is hardly surprising anymore. This doesn’t even start recently IGN has been going downhill for years and you barely even hear much from them unless their reviewers do something so outrageously stupid the rest of us can only laugh at them to the point they are just the biggest laughingstock now, but how can one website do this.

They really have no idea what they review anymore. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby were given 7/10 for too much water. In a game halfway covered in water in which you surf over it a total of 3-5 times short distances. They gave Mouse PI a 6/10 for not being a puzzle game and not being great at the LA Noir style, but anyone looking at the marketing will tell you it is a FPS with a cartoon mouse asthetic similar to old Micky Mouse or Felix the Cat. If that wasn’t bad enough they gave Highguard and Concord, games that were so bad and buggy they were removed higher scores.

I don’t think we need to share the same opinion on games in fact I think it is helpful if people don’t, but I don’t see how someone looked at Mouse PI as well as its marketing and thought a complex story, LA Noir, and puzzle game. I will be upfront here I don’t like shooters so I will not play or review Mouse PI as interesting and fun as it looks I know it isn’t something I will enjoy, but that also makes me wonder why IGN would ask someone who clearly wouldn’t enjoy this to review it. As big as they are not one reviewer who enjoyed FPS games played this? Could they pay someone who knows about shooting games to do this and outsource the review? Was this just an attempt to get views back on that site or something and they believed even if the review was bad the game was small so no one should care? It is precisely because this is a small indie game that people care and at the moment people on Steam and Metacritic are giving the game proper credit and reviewing it properly. Maybe all this will force IGN to start reviewing things properly again though I doubt it.