PSW magazine was my bible in the ps2 days. It let me know about God of War, Shadow of the Colossus etc, even got me into FFX (best game ever obviously), I stopped getting it when I got the internet and a good computer though. Mostly because they changed some staff though and the new staff were giving World at War 10/10 while saying other shooters lost marks for being unoriginal. The old staff were perfect; funny and reasonable, they could spot a good game for sure and had no trouble telling you if a game they thought would be great didn't live up to it. Having checked now the magazine was closed a few months after I stopped
There was also one issue of Nintendo (something or other) I got ages ago which gave a huge review of Wind Waker. It was saying things like "is this the best game ever" 10/10 etc. My impressionable mind back then took it as a factual statement, that it was in fact the best game ever, decided due to proof, and that I should go get it :p Things were cool when they were black and white... Wind Waker was epic