Review bombing, for the uninitiated, is when users go to sites like Metacritic and post overwhelmingly negative user reviews in an effort to bring down a game’s overall score. Sometimes review bombing efforts go the opposite direction and see people flood sites with overwhelmingly positive reviews, but in the case of God of War Ragnarok, the game is being hit by a series of absurd 0/10 scores.
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The God of War Ragnarok review bombing effort has dragged its PS5 user score down to a 7.9, while the PS4 version is currently at 6.1. For comparison, the critic score for God of War Ragnarok is an impressive 94 overall rating. The negative reviews seem to mainly complain about the game’s narrative-focus and cinematics, though some cite technical issues. Bizarrely enough, some of the 0/10 scores actually praise the game, so it’s unclear exactly what’s going on.
Multiple negative reviews bring up how God of War Ragnarok is a potential GOTY contender, which could shed some light as to why some users have decided to start posting 0/10 reviews for the game. God of War Ragnarok is up for the coveted Game of the Year award at The Game Awards this year, and it seems some of these individuals would rather see Elden Ring win the prize over Ragnarok.
The Game Awards have led to all kinds of drama this year. Besides God of War Ragnarok being review bombed, there’s been a huge conflict over the Player’s Voice award, with Genshin Impact and Sonic Frontiers fans fighting over which game should win. It’s gotten pretty ugly, with fans harassing each other online and accusing each side of using bots or other nefarious means to inflate the votes. The Game Awards was showing the live results of voting for the Player’s Voice award, but it’s no longer doing so, possibly as a result of all the toxicity that has surrounded the category this year.
God of War Ragnarok is out now for PS4 and PS5.
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