World of Goo beats out Zelda and Gears of War

Metacritic.com takes the review scores from over 30 different websites and work out an average score, to get above 90 on Metacritic is a real achievement, which makes it all the more surprising when the previously unheard of 'World of Goo' for Wiiware is ranked as the 2nd best Wii game to date...

[Lord Shuhei Yoshida]

Looks like a game about Goo destroyed Tears of Bore.Good to know.

However Wii games and 360 games are fighting for casual kids dollars while the PS3 is a gaming rig only for the hardcore gamers

[Dark Collosis]

Funny thing there is WoGoo ALSO beats out the PS3s ONLY exclusive AAA games (Metal loading Movie 4 and LittleBigwebkin).. Even more comical is your second comment on wii and 360 competing over casual kids dollar.. WHEN the PS3s BEST GAME is one where you play with little Kiddie SACKS on a 2d platformer that should be on the WII..... ROFLOL Pony boys are just that phony..

[Captain_Sony]

I cannot believe any PS3 owner could be so stupid but you my poor delusional friend are a top notch idiot.. Right when Sony launches Little Kids PLanet for KIDS and CASUALS, you have to come on here talking about how Sony is only hardcore.. We as PS3 owners need people like you to be banned. You make the rest of us look stupid with poorly thought comments like that.. If Singstar,Eye Pet,Fat Princess, LBP are you idea of hardcore, then you are a casual gamer who only thinks they are hardcore. Nothing hardcore about any of those games.

[Pennywise]

It must be the best game ever. Time to buy a Wii and flail my arms like a moron to get entertainment. Good thing is if I dont pass the controller my friends can watch me for entertainment swinging my arms like an idiot.

[Maxned]

Youre not a lord, youre just a giant douche.
A biased douche, at that.

[Pennywise]

Lets all be unbiased and hold hands.

Not gonna happen. The resident xbots on this site waged a war years ago on anyone who liked anything Sony. Its now backfired and everyone cries about it. Xtards started this mess instead of just being gamers.... so now the backlash is here and it isnt going anywhere.

I didnt do anything to these kids to deserve the bullcrap they say about me for owning a PS3. They have provoked me to be a d!ck to all of them. I am okay with this ;)

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Little Big Planet has Sex, Drugs, Violence, Fire, Lasers, and anything else you can imagine.

Sounds like a kids game to me...

[sleepbox]

I'd say all the consoles are trying to appeal to casual gamers.

[Amsterdaam]

And well deserved!

[heyheyhey]

Metacritic is broken full stop...

take reviews from publications you trust.. and work out that average

Meta includes dozens of sites you probably don't care about

[Pennywise]

Not to burst bubbles, but that metacritic score is based on 7 reviews.

MSG 94% with 78 reviews
LBP 95% with 28 reviews

This story is true in the sense 96% is the score as of now. False saying its 30+ reviews.

[Qfragger]

I have it for the PC and it's simply stunning...

[M_Prime]

the wii version is $5 cheaper then the PC one..

[blackbeld]

This game sucks... stupid game. also dont get it how could they give high score for this game. IGN who cares about that site.

[Cheeseknight28]

While World of Goo certainly isn't the greatest game ever, it's still a great game.

Try the damn demo before you bash it.

[M_Prime]

Its a good game.. worth the $15 but a lil short unless your obsessive compulsive.. and kinda has an online leaderboard, a very casual leaderboard

[crygester]

World of Goo 96% based on 7 reviews . . .
Twilight Princess 95% based on 73 reviews

[Pennywise]

Like I said in open zone. This article lies. Once world of poo gets 30+ reviews I highly doubt this short little game will even be close.

[SL1M DADDY]

The article fails and is full of lies. Sorry, but this is just one of those moments where I feel compelled to hit the reject article button.

Sure it's a fun game but the article is a bit misleading.

[Mahr]

"This article lies."

Do you even know what a lie *is*? It's a statement which is factually untrue.

"According to Metacritic the previously unheard of 'World of Goo' for Wiiware is ranked as the 2nd best Wii game to date."

Which is -- currently anyway -- the truth. According to the metacritic rating system, World of Goo is ranked second.

You can argue that basing something off of X number of reviews isn't quite sound, but that's an issue with Metacritic and to a larger extent Game ratings websites overall -- all of which are trivial in the larger sense. Oh no! Based off of a bunch of reviews, game Y has a .1 higher rating than Game Z! What an accomplishment!

"Once world of poo gets 30+ reviews I highly doubt this short little game will even be close."

So, you think it's just a major coincidence that pretty much everyone who've actually played the game are throwing around words like "absolutely phenomenal", "incredible", "brilliant", and all manner of superlatives to describe it?

[cruckel]

well worth the money. Great puzzler with a comic side.

Only thing flawed is there is no in game options (resolution, volume, etc...). It wouldn't be a problem, but i have a widescreen flatpanel lcd moniter, which doesn't scale well. A little config editing and the resolution is fixed and still looks good, and it is 16:10 :D

short, sweet, and reply is very high.

[BrotherNick]

Complain complain, it's a great game. Maybe you should try the game. It's really good.

[ReTarDedFisHy]

...WTF is with this. Although I have a pro-Sony agenda, there's no way WoG is better than Zelda or GeoW.
This crap is based on 7 reviews. This is ridiculous.

[bigshynepo]

When this game has more than 20 reviews, then we'll talk.

[sleepbox]

World of Goo is the best indie game ever made...period.

All the haters, how does it feel to know that, odds are, you will probably never achieve such a creative feat in your entire life?

It deserves every bit of praise it is receiving in that TWO people made this game and it's better than most games made by teams of hundreds.

[kunit22c]

thought it ment in like sales, i was like NO WAY! but now that i see it is this, its more realistsic