While an 8.2 isn't really a bad score, looking at their negative points of the game is reminiscent of the Pokemon ORAS review, where they cited the game as having "too much water". Now in AA, they put auto-save only and unforgiving manpower system. These things seem to be a trend of knocking good games for troll-like unrealistic exceptions, which amazingly was not a problem previously and isn't really a problem at all. If you look at the COH2 review, they put "evil flamethrowers" and "few new ideas". I guess even then those are pretty stupid too, but I feel like it's getting worse now.
This is important because IGN receives a lot of views, which can impact the flow of new players to the game, which in turn affects how much coh content gets approved for development.
AA Review
COH 2 Review
Pokemon ORAS review
