neurasthenya: the last part of your comment is pure nonsense.
It is about production my dear, instead of going on and on digressing and talking bollocks you write those bollocks down and produce a decent video.
Pure nonsense? Silly?
What about this review, a token example of why scripted reviews are horribly fake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5cAKE-3VrI Here are just a few ridiculous quotations that typify that whole review (emphasis mine):
...“knowing full-well you are in control, despite your
relatively diminutive stature.”
“For a game that manages to handle complex systems in real-time
with aplomb...”
"Nevertheless, when the controls
seep into your sub-conscious, heroic displays of cunning, might, and fearlessness lend Aloy a super-human quality."
No one talks like that in real-life. The script writer(s) clearly heavily edited their original draft, after consulting a thesaurus and liberally replacing their original words as many times as possible, with whatever thesaurus words sounded the most fancy & pretentious. As a result, that scripted review inherently sounds way more like bollocks than would someone going offtopic in an unscripted review sound like bollocks.
Likewise, that scripted review (like most others) also sounds like bollocks because reading scripts credibly requires acting ability, and that script reader has none (nor do most other scripted youtubers). Any listener of that Gamespot review can easily hear the very bad acting that infuses every sentence.
Finally, If the reviewer really knew what he was talking about, if he really had expertise in the subject, then he'd be able to talk spontaneously off the top of his head just fine. Good Professors do exactly that all the time, every time they give lectures. If a game reviewer is unable to wing it for a review, then that bespeaks his or her lack of knowledge about said game, and also therefore his or her lack of qualification to offer a sound review of it.
Now, contrast that scripted Gamespot review with the unscripted Mack/Worth A Buy review of the same game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tViQ4xTSaJo Sure, Mack goes off topic all the time, but it doesn't matter, his reviews are
still better than any scripted reviews. Because Mack's sincerity is self-evident.
In contrast, the Gamespot review makes self-evident that the script-reader doesn't believe any darn word he's saying....because he is just
performing them, and they aren't even his own words! (and that still holds true even if he is the same person also wrote the script based on words he looked up in a thesaurus).