User blog comment:JetCell/New reviewing templates (guidelines to come)/@comment-5065259-20120912233531/@comment-1585211-20120913014020

I still think that Gimmick/Execution might be a good idea, cause gimmicks are also one of the reasons why people buy blasters, and they can either improve or lower a score. We could actually have reliability be different from gimmicks like this, and no longer would we need to give blasters a 9/10 in reliability because the light is faulty.

The only reason I included most of the other categories was because of an idea I had a while ago to have ten categories and have a total score out of 100 to make things more even. It didn't work out, as I couldn't find up to ten useful categories. I can still see things like appearance used in personal reviews though.

I do agree with Jet on accuracy tests, very seldom do people actually do them now. I have no idea what the accuracy on most blasters after 2000 is, which is probably why most of them end up getting a 7-10. I just think it's a bit odd to not include accuracy and to keep capacity. I think everyone can say lots of pre-NStrike blasters got usually better performance, but because of things like capacity and limited accuracy tests, they get ranked higher.