I finally found some time to look at the Great Games Experiment today. It’s actually quite fun. It’s a social network but geared around gaming. The website has a pretty clean layout and it’s really easy to find the games you like, if they’re already listed. You can rate and comment on games at the click of a button without all that tedious Click To Confirm rubbish that Facebook and MySpace seem to love.

On the other hand, it’s also very open to rubbish and abuse. Spore has managed to rack up 69 ratings with a score of 4.7 despite not yet being launched. There really needs to be a separate section for games in development. For some reason you need to say that you’ve played the game in order to review it, but not to rate it. Where’s the sense in that? Is rating based on pure hype acceptable these days? Along this same vein, there should be a way to report the inevitable griefers. It’s all happy and nice so far but really, we’ve all seen what happens when someone even hints at PSP vs DS.
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