It's not about the score that I'm upset with his review, it's the fact the review is a bad review. Let me show you some parts of it.
"The game is too hard" - Haven't you played the original trilogy? MK games are hard, they're supposed to be hard. That's the whole point. It's a throwback. It wouldn't be MK without a hard boss.
"When the original MK came out-" - He said he was too young so he didn't get the whole nostalgia factor that comes with the game. It's a throwback towards the original, easter eggs of course. IGN rates other games higher for nostalgia but MK cannot do that because it's reviewer doesn't get it.
"The story is weak" - What other fighting game has a good story in general? Other fighters this gen don't really piece toward great stories outside of Blazblue, also MK's story is classic MK. It's style, humor, basically everything, if you'd play the original MKs you'd understand this. Besides saying "I don't know the lore well" wouldn't really help in those regards. Since the beginning of this game's announcement they've stated it was a throwback, get someone who's actually played the originals to determine how the game truly is.
"The meter is divided into four segments" - Alright, we know for a fact you didn't truly get into the game but this is ridiculous....
"I was bewildered by the imbalances found in the single-player modes. You're very often thrown into two-on-one matches and confronted with bosses that actually break the game's rules" - Play MK1.....this is a common part of MK......you shouldn't have been surprised....even happened in the more recent Deception...
"Whenever I voiced my frustrations to other IGN editors, the response was always the same: "Sounds like typical Mortal Kombat." Sticking to tradition isn't a good excuse" - *sigh*
"Furthermore, there's some odd presentation issues that I wouldn't have expected from Mortal Kombat. Chief among them is your inability to pause or skip cutscenes in the story mode. There isn't even a chapter select of any kind. It's a terrible setup." - False, you can pause the cutscenes in story mode.
Then you factor in more of his comments such as graphics. Even though he said the characters look amazing and environments look bad he gives it a 7.5 when previous for his Tekken 6 review he gave the game the same score in graphics with a worst comment? Presentation is horrible for the amount of modes and extras it has adding to it, I've only see this praised everywhere else. It's crazy. The guy isn't the kind of person who'd even like MK so really it's like throwing a strategy gamer in a review for the latest NASCAR game.
Honestly he's the only person I've seen do this and that's why I can't accept a 8/10. If he knew what he was talking about it would have been different but the fact is that he doesn't.