A review is obviously just one person's opinion, so how do you deal with conflicting thoughts on a game, both for high and low scores? What if someone else on GameSpot thinks a game deserves a much higher (or lower) score? On the rare occasion when we publish a 10 review, that is our way of saying that no matter your preference for genre, developer, setting, or console, you owe it to yourself to find a way to play the game in question. It also means that games without obvious flaws may be scored below 10. That means you may see a game getting a 10 despite having issues.
In our opinion, no game can be considered perfect. What makes a game a 10, and has that definition changed over the years? Does a 10 mean it's 'perfect'?Ī 10 does not mean a game is perfect, but it does mean that it's a game we believe everyone should play. So without further ado, here is a list of all the games that we've scored with a 10/10! For more details on the review process and what a 10/10 means at GameSpot, check out our in-depth Q&A below. Regardless, a 10/10 review score is always determined by the personal opinion of its respective writer and always reflects as such. But to achieve a 10/10, a game needs to be essential, and it needs to have something so meaningful to offer us that it simply cannot be ignored. Since the site was founded in 1996, only 26 games have earned that rank. It isn't often that we give 10/10 review scores on GameSpot.
