This is a great article over on Destructoid about the gaming press being scared of its readers. I agree with about 99% of the article and I suggest you check it out. Please keep in mind though there maybe some language that some people may not want to hear. Here is the gist of the article:

Earlier this week, I was having a conversation with ScrewAttack’s Destin L about the gaming press, most notably about how so many videogames lately are getting incredibly high review scores, with nearly every major release apparently able to do no wrong, even though gamers themselves later come out to say such games weren’t even all that good.

As we theorized why this could be, I came upon the possible conclusion that positive press was being motivated by fear, and the more I think about it, the more likely it seems. As I scan the gamer community and find what seems to be a rabid and possibly deranged army of quasi-human attack dogs, it’s difficult to not draw a correlation between rampant fanboys going off the rails and a gaming press that doesn’t want to step out of line and say bad things about a game.

Source: Destructoid