89 is a bit high, but more like what this game deserves if you assume that all multiplayer issue will get solves and stats will work. I think if the release had been delayed a bit to fix these issues and add a bit more content, 87 would have been the average review. I hope that the bad early reviews do not limit stardocks support of the game. I would like to see them "re-release" the game in the fall for the christmas season with a Demigod - Pantheon Extreme Edition. This edition would hopefully get re-reviewed with multiplayer fixed, new maps, new demigods, and possibly a single player tutorial and short campaign or something of the sorts for $50. This game really deserves better reviews that it got, and I would hate to see it die, because of early issues.
The average score on Gamespot is 77% for 400+ votes.
Better, but how many of these were from the first week. All of them. As stated above, I think the average review from players, even without a tutorial or campaign, would be 85-89% if connectivity and bugs were taken care of. Ho0pefully people are patient and don't give up on this one.