Current rating systems/critics are great, but like movie critics they are often looking at movies much differently than the public. How many times have you gone to a movie the critics hated and you liked? Or the movie got a great review but you thought it sucked! This phenomenon happens with video games. After reading many video game reviews that said how great the video game was, you go out and dropped $60 plus dollars and came home beat the game in a couple of hours and got bored with it. You took back to the retailer a couple of days later and got $20 for it. So you're out 40 bucks...not cool.

At Gamer Rated our goal is for the Gamers to inform and discuss the video game in their own words and to have a rating system that doesn't get bogged down in a lot of technical bias garbage. Most gamers want to know if it's a good video game worth the money which usually means does the game have "replay value" or does it suck.