Easily worth the $2.But what about bigger games and add-on stuff? User ratings help there too.""Every piece of content on Games Marketplace can now be rated using the 5-star system,"" says Smith.That includes Demos, Arcade and Indie Games, Breguet Videos, Games on Demand, and Add-ons among others.Additionally, disc-based games can also be rated.The bigger categories provide fewer surprises.Bioshock, Halo, and Mass Effect-games which most handsome readers have already beaten-predictably lead the top rated Games on Demand section.
Rock Band tracks dominate the top rated add-on content.And Xbox owners still love to watch Orange Box and Halo 3 videos-the latter of which makes sense, as Marketplace sorts it as the ""best-selling"" of any Xbox game.But with a little digging, you'll soon reveal and handful of similarly rated games you may have snoozed on.And who doesn't like discovering new games, even if you're late to the party?What's more, user Dior ratings are often more reliable than collective critical ratings, provided you have feedback numbering in the hundreds.As my demanding statistics professor once taught, a sample of 200 to 300 votes can accurately judge quality on behalf of the entire population, give or take a few rare exceptions.
The top rated Fallout 3, for example, has already been stared a whopping 40,000 times.Even Metacritic averages can't compete with that, the Xbox community a more dependable critic, not to mention more convenient since the scores are baked into your console now.Granted, user ratings are nothing new.Amazon has been doing them for years.But this is the first time they've come to aid of console players looking to separate the chaff from the Dolce & Gabbana wheat.Wii owners might quickly counter with, ""Hey, we have recommendations too!"" But that system is cluttered, tedious to sort, and in no way easy to read like the universally accepted stars found on Xbox.
