I've stopped buying and reading game magazines and I never visit the big gaming websites any more. The entire review system has been screwed for years. There is the stupidity of an "average" score being pegged at a 85% but also none of the reviews for multiplayer heavy games are conducted on public loaded servers so the reviews are totally inaccurate or misleading. I trust a handful of small independent websites that don't play the crazy game you described and the opinions of a small group of friends whose gaming taste I trust. I never pre-order and would rather wait till the game is in the wild and the various bugs have appeared and (hopefully) the developers have fixed them.