Editing PC PowerPlay (section)

== Scoring system ==
Each review of a game or product is given a score out of ten. ''PC PowerPlay'' has given 10/10 scores to a number of games including:
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* ''[[Psychonauts]]''
* ''[[Civilization IV]]''
* ''[[Half-Life 2: Episode One]]''
* ''[[Medieval II: Total War]]''
* ''[[BioShock]]''
* ''[[Crysis]]''
* ''[[The Witcher: Enhanced Edition]]''
* ''[[Far Cry 2]]''
* ''[[Fallout (franchise)|The Fallout Collection]]'' (Featured in the "Bargain Bin" section.)
* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''
* ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]] ''
* ''[[Minecraft]]''
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]''
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A 10/10 game is connoted not as a perfect game but as a "masterpiece with flaws", and replaced the previous score out of 100. The reasoning for the switch was "What is the difference between a game which gets 95% and a game that gets 96%?"

Under the previous percentage system, only ''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]'' ever received 100% (retroactively via a re-release in 1998 since the game was originally released prior to ''PC PowerPlay''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s first issue). That 100% was converted to 10/10 when printed in review score summaries in later issues, while the next closest score, 98%, was given to:
* ''[[Deus Ex (video game)|Deus Ex]]''
* ''[[Falcon 4.0]]''
* ''[[Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life]]''
* ''[[System Shock 2]]''
* ''[[Total Annihilation]]''
* ''[[Unreal (1998 video game)|Unreal]]''

The lowest score given to a game by ''PC PowerPlay'' was [[Mindscape (company)|Mindscape]]'s ''Howzat World Cricket Quest''. It was given a score of 2% in March 1998.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Howzat Review |last=Jones |first=Gareth |date=March 1998 |issue=22 |page=92 |magazine=[[PC Powerplay]] |url=https://archive.org/details/PCPowerplay-022-1998-03/page/n91 |access-date=September 4, 2023}}</ref>