A bit of searching on Test Freaks though reveals that Half-Life 2 only gets a ‘Freak Score’ of 5.2, comparatively the same game is the top PC game on Metacritic, doesn’t this strike you as a bit odd?

These anomalies show that review aggregate sites are not the perfect way of seeing a break down of top scoring games. The same applies for other forms of entertainment, take Rotten Tomatos for example. Of course different sites have different ways of balancing out the review scores they take into account, as such what we see on these sites should be taken with an understanding of how they work.