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Game Rankings is a website which keeps track of video game reviews from other sites, and combines them to present an average rating for each game. Similar services include Metacritic (also owned by CNET) and GameStats.

Rankings

Game Rankings collects and links to (but doesn't host) reviews from other websites and magazines and averages specific ones. While hundreds of reviews may get listed, only the ones that Game Rankings deems notable are used for the average. Scores are culled from numerous American and European sources. The site uses a percentage grade for all reviews in order to be able to calculate an average, however, because not all sites use the same scoring system (some rate out of 5 or 10, while others use a letter grade), Game Rankings changes all other types of scores into percentages using a relatively straightforward conversion process. At this time Gamerankings is going through some system adjustments and have been for 12 months. Their interactivity options as message boards, sign-ins and user reviews have been disabled. No notification on when it'll be enabled.

Top 10 ranked games

The following games have the highest average score of main sites as of May 19, 2008:

Grand Theft Auto IV - Xbox 360 (97.672%)
- Nintendo 64 (97.613%)
Grand Theft Auto IV - Playstation 3 (97.507%)
Super Mario Galaxy - Wii (97.337%)
The Orange Box - Xbox 360 (96.306%)
The Orange Box - PC (96.300%)
Metroid Prime - Nintendo GameCube (96.264%)
Soulcalibur - Dreamcast (96.259%)
Super Mario 64 - Nintendo 64 (95.905%)
Tekken 3 - PlayStation (95.804%)

The following games have the highest voting average as of May 10, 2008:

BioShock - Xbox 360 (9.3)

Resident Evil 4 - Nintendo GameCube (9.2)

Super Mario World - SNES (9.2)

- Xbox 360 (9.2)

GoldenEye 007 - Nintendo 64 (9.2)

- Wii (9.2)

Super Mario 64 - Nintendo 64 (9.2)

Chrono Trigger - SNES (9.2)

Mass Effect - Xbox 360 (9.2)

- SNES (9.1)

Other features

Along with averaging reviews for individual games, Game Rankings compares games (once a game has at least a certain number of reviews it's added to the listings) (see the page legend

). The description for games lists its position in the rankings for the specific console (multi-platform games have multiple records) as well as its ranking among all games in the database.

As of August 5, 2007, the database contained 22,497 titles. Each game page also contains links to external sites for news, downloads, and other gaming sites.

While not included in the rankings, the site also accepts user ratings. The site claims to have over 96,000 "active users".

The site also includes a searchable database, allowing parameters such as name, system, scores, etc. While registration isn't required, users can create accounts to get custom rankings, submit scores, reviews, and post to the message board.

Notes and references

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