What exactly is metascore?

[Gaestan_Ruze]

I've used steam before but this is new to me as I've simply only played a few games and stuck to them. Can someone please give me a full description of the point of this is? Lol. Would be alot of help, thanks.
(Also, any good games for 10$?)

[Loki]

Each movie, game, book and album featured on metacritic.com is assigned a METASCORE®, which is a weighted average of all of the scores assigned by individual critics to that movie, game, book or album. On a typical film page, for example, you will see the individual critic scores next to each of their quotes, while the overall METASCORE will be displayed at the top of the page. Book METASCORES are calculated slightly differently, but the underlying concept is the same.

METASCORES range from 0-100, with higher scores indicating better overall reviews, and lower scores indicating less favorable reviews from critics. Various ranges of METASCORES are also identified by different colors, so you can tell at a glance how critics felt: generally, green scores indicate favorable reviews, yellow scores denote mixed reviews, and red scores are used for unfavorable reviews.

Effectivley the METASCORE is the game, movie, book, album's rating.

Hope that helps

[LuckyFisher]

I just looked here so i could find out what a metascore is