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Grand Theft Auto IV (PC)
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Last Updated: Oct 3, 2017
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Overlapping Review History
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
I have a core I7 920, 6gb triple channel memory ... [Go to full review]
Aug 21, 2010
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Overrepresented word count (162 words)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 2.9)
Least Trusted Reviews
i really planned to buy this awesome game but when ... [Go to full review]
Dec 2, 2008
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- One-Hit Wonder
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 1 Review)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 1.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Rating Trend
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- 25%
- Created over 19 days
We counted 411 reviews for this product over the span of 3,138 days, an average of 0.1 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 2 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 19 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 104 reviews were created on just 19 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 1.9 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 3.2. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
65 of the 411 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Never-Verified Reviewers
167 of the 411 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. While this is more Never-Verified Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Take-Back Reviewers
6 of the 411 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. While this is more Take-Back Reviewers than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Take-Back Reviewers and reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Single-Day Reviewers
21 of the 411 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. The Single-Day reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.0 while all other reviewers rated this product an average of 2.8. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.
Fail Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
1% also reviewed:
Grand Theft Auto V by Rockstar
1% also reviewed:
Samsung MZ-750500BW 750 EVO 500 GB 2.5 inch Solid... by Samsung
9 of the 411 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.1 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 2.9. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.
Warn Unverified Purchases
270 of the 411 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Unverified purchases may be the result of Kindle Unlimited readers, buyers who didn't pay full price, or reviewers who did not purchase the product at Amazon. Read more about our Unverified Purchases test.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 60%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 1 participation group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 248 reviewers (or 60%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Word Count Comparison
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- 24%
- Have an overrepresented word count
In the graph above, we can see the distribution of review word counts for this product and the expected distribution for this category. We see the following 1 group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 98 reviews (or 24%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
49 of the 411 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Reviewer Ease
The ease score is the average rating for all reviews that a given reviewer submits. The average ease score for reviewers of this product is 3.5, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
3.5 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
1 of the 411 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
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- 0%
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
We didn't detect any reviews that used language indicating they were incentivized.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
Pass Deleted Reviews
- 0
- Reviews have been deleted
We have not discovered any deleted reviews for this product.
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
- We don't have a magic ability to collect every single deleted review; we can only identify reviews as deleted if we collect them on one date and then notice they are no longer visible on a subsequent date.
- We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
- We also don't know why these reviews were removed. It could be action from the platform, personal decision by the review author, part of an entire account closure, even some data error on our part, etc.