It's not rocket science - the ratings built up slowly as LV owners got their machines and rated it highly because - surprise - it IS a very good game. When it hit 30 ratings, because the people (who actually owned it and played it properly) rated it favourably, it hit #1. Cue a sudden deluge of 4s and 5s because this game cannot possibly top the list for any amount of time. I'm sure this has happened before to various other games.

As more people played it and rated it, I'm sure it would have settled naturally into its own spot, but people just can't be patient and dragged it down artificially.

Go play and decide for yourself, but personally I really just don't get anyone who is into pinball thinking this is a crappy game. If you love the Alien theme it's absolutely brilliant.

It is hard to rate any pin a perfect 10 - lets face it these reviews are always gonna be subjective to some degree, and it's almost impossible for a pin to do everything absolutely perfectly (shots, layout, code, art, sound) there are always improvements that can be made, no matter how small. This one is almost there for me personally, but there's just one or two minor things I think could have been done better. Same with Deadpool and Iron Maiden, to me they play perfectly - just so amazingly well designed, but again just one or two things in other areas fall short.

But some criticisms of this are just a bit strange. Bad lighting? On the LV? Even objectively I don't really get that, it's damn near perfectly lit for the theme. Also the shots, I mean, it's got an absolute tonne of shots - the orbits are smooth, the ramp shots aren't clunky, the scoops don't reject and the hypersleep lock is an amazingly satisfying shot. It shoots damn different to my Sterns I'll give you that but that doesn't make it worse.

I dunno, I just think some go into a pin with an intense pre-conceived dislike and nothing's gonna change it.

I do have to agree on one thing - the game definitely does lock up, rarely during play but if left in attract mode for an amount of time it will happen, which is basically broken for operators I guess. I really want them to fix that.