Making a game review show.

I'm in the pre-production stage of making a video game review show. I may expand to include reviews of peripherals and anime as well but for now, it's just video games. It will be about 5-10 minutes long per episode and cover one specific game.

I'm sort of stuck as for a review formula though. I was thinking of making it a good review/bad review thing where one person gives all of good things and says it's a good game. The other anchor will say all the bad things about it and give it a poor review. Then they can bicker back and forth about it.

I'm just not sure how well something like that would work out and want some opinions. So, against my better judgement, I'll ask 4chan.

What do you think, 4chan?

I like the idea of showcasting those who liked the game against those who didn't. Argument, however, is not necessary. As long as you don't put the words of the commentators out of context, people can judge for themselves - the reviewers can be as opinionated as they want - speaking from their heart, which is important.

The most basic way to pull it off over the internet, would be to have players speak their comment into audio files, then put it together with trailers of the games or video scenes that you captured yourself. If others are willing to invest more time and have the appropriate hardware, they can create demos or videos with fraps which demonstrates what they're commenting about the game. They should however not put video and audio stream together - the balancing is your job. The more time *you* are willing to invest, the more video/audio material you can encourage them to create - such as keeping the microphone on while playing the game. Emotional speech allows to get a better feel of how the player related to the game.

You can ask your fans to submit their audio files & captures, which means you'll have more and more choice to put together a balanced view of the game. In the amount of featured players, you have to find a balance between having all sides somewhat represented and viewers getting a feel for the invididual reviewers perspective.

What I don't want to see is creators showing off, wanting to look cool on camera. You suck, i hate you, show me the game! Also, i don't want to see demo dramatizations with cheap video effects and super-annoying music played on top of it, such as is the case with lots of world of warcraft movies. I want to hear the game as it sounds when you play it. I want to hear about the game mechanics, about what makes this game special, about what you haven't seen anywhere before.

Gags & witty remarks are great in theory, but X-Play goes over the top when for a dramatic review they obfuscate how they decided on their rating. Anyway, i don't think it's really necessary - listening to gamers who care about a game creates its own tension.