well its a tradition now to make games with good graphics, preferably for consoles, and then add little to no story, make a shoddy replicated port to PC, some pathetic AI to counter graphics and then unfinished parts with plethora of bugs. Thats it stalker for this time.
GAMESPOT and other friggin sites just sucks. It's kinda pay per review thing. You know they ware so lenient to give some game 10/10 and for some point out retarded flaws and rate'em down.
I find it better to read reviews by users or in blogs.