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{{Video game reviews}} is a template which presents review aggregator and individual publication review scores in a video game article. It supports a game's reception section, which for released titles is necessary for an article to be broad in its coverage.

Things to remember:

• This template is not required.
• This template supplements the reception section; it does not replace it.
• Only include reviews if they are cited within the text.

Guidelines

{{Video game reviews}} is not required

Traditional reviews, or those that provide some type of score, may be few and far between for some games. If you only have a couple of such reviews which could be used to fill the table, consider foregoing the table and instead simply state these in the body of reception text.

All reviews must be referenced

Individual reviews should cite their original publication, not the aggregator truncated summary. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources.

Every single-site review source should be used within the reception section

The reviews table supports the text. It is not to replicate the function of external review aggregators.

Stay with the "usual suspects"

Aggregators present readers with a quick gauge of the critical consensus.

• Metacritic − Industry standard
• GameRankings − Particularly useful for games that pre-date Metacritic (limit to 2 significant figures, i.e., 83% instead of 83.46%)

The following sources comprise the most popular and influential voices in the games industry. It provides a core selection of reviews to build a reception section:

• IGN - Most popular English language games website
• GameSpot - Second most popular English language games website
• Game Informer − US magazine with the largest circulation
• Edge − UK's longest running print magazine
• Eurogamer - Most popular European English language games website (See below)

For older games, particularly fifth generation and earlier, web based publications lacked the reach and influence of print publications. Sources to consider include:

• Computer and Video Games - UK magazine first published in 1981
• Computer Gaming World - US PC magazine first published in 1981
• Electronic Gaming Monthly - US magazine first published in 1989 (See below)
• GamePro - US magazine first published in 1989
• These publications and others may be available from the reference library.

Single platform publications may offer specialist insight to platform-exclusive games, and allow readers to compare the reception across platforms of multiplatform games. Consider sources such as Nintendo Power, Official Xbox Magazine, PC Gamer, PlayStation Official Magazine, and others.

For niche genres, genre publications may offer specialist insight. Consider sources such as Adventure Gamers, RPGamer, PC Pilot, and others.

Games which have strong cultural ties to their country of origin should have reception from that same country. Japanese games for example are best served with a Famitsu review (See below).

Consider coverage from outside traditional video games media. High quality sources such as The New York Times, Wired, and the BBC, do not cater to a "gamer" audience, but may on occasion cover video games. Wikipedia is both a generalist and specialist encyclopedia. Opinions from these sources may be more accessible to a non-gamer audience and place the subject in a greater cultural and societal context than is possible at a narrowly focused video gaming publication.

Reviews without scores

Some publications, such as Eurogamer, Kotaku and Joystiq may not score their reviews. If instead of a score, the publication presents the game with a badge or award in its review, this can be included in the table. This is not necessary.

Consider the aggregate scoring breakdown

The review aggregators used in the table are considered reliable sources and are trusted to provide the critical consensus. However, some games may divide opinion and there may be no true consensus. This division of opinion may already have been captured following the guidelines above, but if not - consider including further reviews expressing these "outlier" opinions.

Publications such as Electronic Gaming Monthly and Famitsu review games among a group, with each reviewer offering their individual score. Using the average or cumulative score from these publications will result in the loss of that breakdown, so include the individual scores, either in the table itself or in a footnote.

Stars

If a review uses a stars instead of numbers, you may use the {{rating}} template. This is not required. Examples:

Code	Result
{{Rating|3|5}}
{{Rating|3.5|5}}
{{Rating|7|10}}

General

Usage

All of the following fields are optional:

title*

Can be used to provide a custom title for the table; otherwise, it will default to "Reception".

subtitle*

Used to add additional text before the collapsible section. This is necessary to add if want a longer title, as long titles via the "title" parameter will not center correctly.

state* [autocollapse, collapsed, expanded]

1. autocollapse  –  The table will start out collapsed if there are two or more tables on the same page that use other collapsible tables. Otherwise, the table will be expanded. For the technically minded, see MediaWiki:Common.js.
2. collapsed  –  The table will be collapsed (hidden) by default. This is useful for very long tables.
3. expanded  –  The table will be expanded (shown) by default. This is useful if autocollapse is not showing the table in a section that it wouldn't matter.
4. If undefined or set to blank, the table will not be collapsible.

align*

1. right  –  Displays the table on the right. This is default.
2. left  –  Displays the table on the left.
3. inherit  –  Specifies that the value of the float property should be inherited from the parent element.
4. none  –  The table is not aligned, and will be displayed just where it occurs in the text on the page.

Code

Predefined Aggregator Fields Aggregator Code Rating system example GameRankings GR 84% Metacritic MC 83/100

Reviewer Code Rating system example 1UP.com 1UP A+ to D− Adventure Gamers AdvGamers Allgame Allgame Amstrad Action AAction Amtix! Amtix Computer Gaming World CWG Computer and Video Games CVG 9.2 (0.0 to 10.0) Crash CRASH Destructoid Destruct Dragon Dragon Edge Edge 1 to 10 Electronic Gaming Monthly EGM 9.5 (0.0 to 10.0) Eurogamer EuroG Stopped scoring reviews on 10 February 2015 Famitsu Fam 0 to 40 G4 G4 GameFan GameFan Game Informer GI GamePro GamePro Game Revolution GameRev A to D− (1996-2012); adapted 5-star rating system in 2012 GamesMaster GMaster GameSpot GSpot

Reviewer Code Rating system example GameSpy GSpy GamesRadar GRadar GamesTM GTM GameTrailers GT GameZone GameZone Giant Bomb GB Hyper Hyper IGN IGN Joystiq Joystiq No longer scoring reviews after Jan. 2015 Maximum PC MaxPC Nintendo Gamer NG NGC Magazine N64 or NGC NintendoLife NLife Nintendo Power NP Nintendo World Report NWR Official Nintendo Magazine ONM Official PlayStation Magazine (US) OPM Official PlayStation Magazine (UK) OPMUK Official PlayStation Magazine (Australia) OPMAU Official Xbox Magazine OXM

Reviewer Code Rating system example Official Xbox Magazine (UK) OXMUK PALGN PALGN PC Format PCF PC Gamer (UK) PCGUK PC Gamer (US) PCGUS PC PowerPlay PCPP PC Zone PCZone Play Play Polygon Poly PSM PSM PSM3 PSM3 Sinclair User SUser TeamXbox TX VideoGamer.com VG X-Play XPlay Your Sinclair YSinclair

Award layout

Usage

Documentation Template
For testing
Awards Publication Award BAFTA PC Game of the Year (2000) PC Zone Best PC Game of All Time

award_n*

These are for the title of the awards that the title has won.

award_nPub*

These are the publishers that provided the award for the title.

Code

Example Blank Template

{{Video game reviews
| title      = 
| subtitle   = 
<!--Formatting-->
| state      = <!--plain/collapsible-->
| align      = <!--left/right/none/inherit-->
<!-- Awards No limit -->
| award1Pub  = 
| award1     = 
| award2Pub  = 
| award2     = 
}}

Single-Platform/Column layout

Usage

award_n*

These are for the title of the awards that the title has won.

award_nPub*

These are the publishers that provided the award for the title.

rev_n*

These are for custom reviewers. Use with rev_nScore.

rev_nScore*

These are for custom reviewers scores for each Platform. Use with rev_n.

agg_n*

These are for custom aggregate. Use with agg_nScore.

agg_nScore*

These are for custom aggregate scores for each Platform. Use with agg_n.

Code

Example Blank Template

{{Video game reviews
| title      = 
| subtitle   = 
<!--Formatting-->
| state      = <!--plain/collapsible-->
| align      = <!--left/right/none/inherit-->
<!-- Aggregators -->
| MC         = 
<!-- Reviewers -->
| XPlay      = 
| IGN        = 
<!-- Custom aggregators limit is set to 10 -->
| agg1      = 
| agg1Score = 
| agg2      = 
| agg2Score = 
<!-- Custom Reviewers limit is set to 10-->
| rev1       = 
| rev1Score  = 
| rev2       = 
| rev2Score  = 
<!-- Awards No limit -->
| award1Pub  = 
| award1     = 
| award2Pub  = 
| award2     = 
}}

Multi-platform

Usage

na*

This will set a fill of N/A grayed out.

award_n*

These are for the title of the awards that the title has won.

award_nPub*

These are the publishers that provided the award for the title.

rev_n*

These are for custom reviewers. Use with rev_nPlatform.

rev_nPlatform*

These are for custom reviewers scores for each Platform. Use with rev_n.

Code

You first need to put any platforms that are being used: The code to use is as follows:
Enter true into any platform used.
If not used, set to non-true value, leave blank, or delete the parameter.

Example Blank Template {{Video game reviews | title = | subtitle = <!--Formatting--> | state = <!--plain/collapsible--> | align = <!--left/right/none/inherit--> | na = true/false; default is false can be omitted. <!-- Turn on platform etc. --> | DS = true | iOS = false <!-- Aggregators etc. --> | MC_DS = | MC_iOS = <!-- Reviewers etc. --> | XPlay_iOS = | IGN_X360 = <!-- Custom Reviewers limit is set to 10--> | rev1 = | rev1_PC = | rev1_X360 = | rev2 = | rev2_PC = <!-- Awards no limit--> | award1Pub = | award1 = | award2Pub = | award2 = }}

Predefined System Type System Code Atari 2600 A2600 Atari Lynx LYNX ColecoVision CV Nintendo DS DS Game Boy GB Game Boy Advance GBA Game Boy Color GBC General ~~ If review is broad. GEN iOS iOS Macintosh MAC N-Gage (device) N-G Nintendo 64 N64 Nintendo Entertainment System NES GameCube NGC Nvidia Shield NSHI Personal Computer PC PlayStation PS PlayStation 2 PS2 PlayStation 3 PS3 PlayStation 4 PS4 PlayStation Portable PSP Dreamcast SDC Sega Game Gear SGG Super Nintendo Entertainment System SNES Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) SMD Master System SMS Sega Saturn SSAT TurboGrafx-16 TG16 PlayStation Vita VITA Xbox XBOX Xbox One XONE Xbox 360 X360 Wii WII Wii U WIIU Nintendo 3DS 3DS

How to add a new platform

Go to Module:Video game reviews/data and add {'wiki url/title', 'short code for the system'} within the system array.

• Define a code for the new platform (eg. “PS2” for PlayStation 2)
• Determine its alphabetical order, and the platform code preceding and succeeding it. (eg. For PS2, the PS precedes, and the PS3 succeeds)

How to add a new reviewer

Go to Module: Video game reviews and add {'wikilink/title', 'short code for the reviewer'} within the reviewer array.

• Define a code into the appropriate place (alphabetically) of the existing code.
• Be sure to provide an appropriate wikilink if available.

Template revisions

Style changes

Here's a record of previous styles that were very different from one another:

• Removed bounding box on title.
• Added color to aggregator and reviewer title rows.

Template Data

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Video game reviews

A template to show the review scores, aggregator scores, and awards given to a title.

Template parameters

Параметр		Тавзеҳот	Type	Status
title	title	Title of the template. Пешфарз Reception	String	optional
subtitle	subtitle	Subtitle of the template. Пешфарз	String	optional
state	state	The tables collapsable settings. Пешфарз expanded	String	optional
align	align	The tables horizontal alignment settings. Пешфарз right	String	optional
na	na	This will set a fill of N/A grayed out. Пешфарз true	String	optional

See also

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources
• Template:Album ratings (backlinks edit)
• Template:Video game requirements (backlinks edit)
• Template:Video game series reviews (backlinks edit) for video games in a series.
• Template:Rating (backlinks edit)