Enhanced Edition on Metacritic

[klesh]

Almost 2 months after the release of the Enhanced Edition for consoles, it's score on Metacritic is actually worse than that of the original console edition; the edition that was so bad, it needed to be replaced in full.

 

Original console edition:   PS4: 77 , XboxOne: 74

Enhanced Edition: PS4: 64, XBoxOne: No Score - Too few reviews (though the average of the 2 posted reviews is 66)

As an aside, the score for the PC version is 88.

Links:

Spoiler

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/kerbal-space-program

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/kerbal-space-program

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/kerbal-space-program-enhanced-edition

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/kerbal-space-program-enhanced-edition

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/kerbal-space-program

 

 

Part of this is that there are still very few reviews on the Enhanced Edition.  With only 7 professional reviews of the PS4 version, the 2 scores in the 40's are bound to have more weight.  There's not enough reviews of the XBox version to even generate a score.  This seems strange to me, that there is so little coverage of the Enhanced Edition.

I don't trust individual game reviews very much, but Metacritic seems to be a decent place to get an amalgamation of reviews and a sense for how a game is being received.  From, what I have read, the Enhanced Edition is actually better than the initial console offering, so why the bad reviews, or lack of reviews (by individuals, or game websites/professional reviewers) in general?

[klgraham1013]

There were reviewers of KSP1.0 that gave it very high scores and then stated they hadn't even made it to the Mun.  I don't put much stock in these numbers.

[Gaarst]

The original ports were rated for being KSP first and broken second. EE didn't have the argument of novelty so it was mostly rated for failing to correct all the mistakes of the original ports.

[Kaskel2000]

It’s a shame as it’s an amazing game. I’d admit I was put off by the graphics of the trailer for the enhanced edition at first (and that I knew nothing of the game). Then last week I bought it as a random purchase and become utterly addicted. To the stage I’ve now also bought it for my Mac while abroad on holiday!  £80 spent in a week. That’d be my review!