Lair - Friend or Foe?

Over the past few weeks there has been many reviews of the highly anticipated Playstation 3 game Lair.  It started with Play Magazine which gave lair a score of 9/10, when that score came out, people were like "I don't trust them" or "PLAY is not a reliable source" blah blah.  Then when EGM released there review they gave it a 5/10, 5.5/10, and a 6/10 and everyone was like "O Lair sucks," "I knew this game wasn't good," "PS3 sucks'" blah blah blah, even though EGM and 1up are payed by Microsoft.  But no one took the time to read those reviews.  Here are quotes from the PLAY review "

"If gliding over a beautiful starlit ocean to the haunting strains of opera doesn't’t impress you, you’re dead inside"
"It also says all frame rate issues have been fixed."
"The only negatives were that objectives weren't explained well enough and confusing navigation sometimes."
"They say that some of the confusion is because it combines nearly 6 genres into one game…but once you get use to it, it is a game with incredible depth."
"It also says that replay value is extremely high–you can receive higher ranks and that unlocks amazing stuff such as new dragons, etc. to kick butt with".

Now here are quotes from EGM's review

GOOD
They said motion control was cool.
The ground combat was well done.
No mention of frame rate indicating it was stable.
They liked the epic scope of the game.

BAD
They thought the dragon was a re- skinned x-wing
The dragon shooting fireballs was odd and wasn't’t realistic enough
The game had no map and someone asked if the graphics were good and he said “its High Def” and he didn't’t like the colors used,everything was brown and Grey. They didn't’t like the art style and said the game lacked innovation.

So it seems to me that EGM's review was base off of opinion and not how good or bad the game really is.  It's amazing how quickly one bad review can spark negative criticisms over the web.  The next review was the rumored EDGE review which gave Lair a 9/10 but that review was ignored do to Lairs delay.  Then Gamepro gave it a 3.75/5 which is not bad but its not good either and here are Quotes from the review:

Pros: Gorgeous graphics, amazing orchestral soundtrack, dragon based action is fun.

Cons: The decision to use a SixAxis only control scheme hurts more than it helps.

Some random quotes from the review…

ON THE CONTROL SCHEME ISSUES:
“To be fair, the motion sensing is pretty accurate but requiring you to constantly move your hands around while fiddling with buttons over the course of a fairly long game is asking too much. It’s unfortunate that the game relies so heavily on a gimmicky feature that no one has been able to get a true grasp of (pun intended).”

So once again it seems like the only bad thing about the game is based on opinion. then comes the GamerTV review which gives it a 3/5.  And there reasons for such an average score was because it didn't have a Multiplayer mode.  Bioshock doesn't have a multiplayer mode but no one is holding that against it.  Then there was PSW's Review which gave Lair an 8/10 and here are quotes from there review:

+ Always so much going on
+ Stunning attention to detail
+ Intuitive control set-up
- Not the longest of games

So it seems like the game was good enough for them to want more.  So before you base you opinions on whether or not you should get Lair don't base it off of reviews.  Be your own reviewer and judge for yourself.  How can a game that looks this good be bad?