10 Video Game Review Scores Fans Lost Their MINDS Over

Gran Turismo 7 was released to a highly respectable 87 Metascore - higher than the two previous main games in the series, if not reaching the stratospheric highs of the original racing simulator trilogy.

Fans were elated, then, until the game was actually released and they realised that Sony had pulled something of a dirty trick.

The final retail build of Gran Turismo 7 featured aggressive microtransaction implementation, creating an unreasonable currency grind in an attempt to persuade players to part with real world money for the sake of "saving time" and getting a leg up.

Worse still, developers Polyphony Digital even patched the grind to be even grindier post-release. The cheek.

But the version of the game played by the press during the review period featured no such nonsense, and if it had, that precious Metascore would've surely been massively lower.

In this case there's certainly not any blame that can be reasonably levelled against critics, who simply assessed the version of the game with which they were presented.

But Sony, in moving the goalposts so transparently in the pursuit of rave reviews, seriously dented the trust they'd built up from players and critics alike.

Of all the review controversies actually worth getting pissed off about, this one's right at the top.