Many games change significantly enough in their lifetimes that reading reviews written months or years ago can be misleading. You could be faced with a page of negative reviews complaining about problems that, in the time since they were written, were fixed. Similarly you could be looking at reviews written while a game was in an unfinished, Early Access state.Steam had this problem; as of yesterday, Valve hopes it doesn't.
Steam has made alterations to better expose recent reviews - that is, reviews written in the last 30 days. Steam now generates a separate recent review score and pulls out Most Helpful Reviews from reviews written in this period.
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