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We appreciate dissenting opinion, but Maxim's review of BioShock is wrong in so many ways.

With the lowest scores coming in at 9/10, it's safe to say that BioShock has received near-unanimous praise. We did, however, come upon one outlet that disagreed with the majority--Maxim Magazine. In the September 2007 issue of the men's magazine, the game was scored three out of five stars--extrapolated to 60% on the Games.Net scale. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, though, right? Well, Maxim backs up its bold rating with the following review--shown at right. While the magazine has never been a bastion of gaming journalism, the bizarre rating--alongside other questionable reviews like Quake Wars which hasn't been provided for review to most media yet--makes you wonder how much gameplay goes into these one-sentence reviews. Maxim's online division gave the game a good review, so perhaps it's just a very unfortunate typo. Click on the travesty of a review at right to see the entirety of Maxim's magazine's gaming coverage


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VivaLeResistance VivaLeResistance

Posted at: 08/23/07 at 3:07 PM PST

the magazine is good to analize women..not games.

LMG LMG

Posted at: 08/28/07 at 9:58 AM PST

I can't read the article for some reason. It tells me to enter a password and username oh well. I don't trust non gaming magazines for gaming related news.

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