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I'm curious about the comment on Sega's endorsement affecting the magazine's criticism, especially given that [http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/world/ctw/mags2-dc.htm|an independent review of UK Dreamcast magazines] in CTW found it to give the lowest average score of the lot. Was this really Sega dictating editorial standards, or was the magazine just keen to stress balance? --[[User:NiktheGreek|NiktheGreek]] 10:42, 26 March 2012 (CDT)
:I subscribed to ODM back in the day, but the balance thing was information I took from elsewhere so it's someone else's judgement. I don't really have any other DC mags to compare it to, so it could be completely wrong.
:Average scores don't really work in this instance though - over the course of two years the magazine only awarded full marks (i.e. 10/10) to two games - SoulCalibur and Shenmue (I think), whereas other magazines were much more liberal about that sort of thing. But at the same time, I don't recall any 0/10s or 1/10s. 2s and 3s were rarer than 8s and 9s, and from what I can remember, scores gravitated towards the 7s and 8s in most cases, whereas you'd expect it to be closer to 5.
:Regardless I don't think they were in the business of slagging games off without highlighting any positives, which stands as good journalism.
:But it's difficult to judge because obviously most Dreamcast games missed PAL region and the magazine folded mid-2001 (and quite a bit of crap showed up after then), so you could possibly argue there were no truly bad PAL Dreamcast games -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] 11:35, 26 March 2012 (CDT)