You base your AAA status on what others think due to some site giving you a number. For me a Game is only AAA when i like it enough to be just that.
I do not listen to reviewers who get extra money to give big devs that extra few points to hype a game to the mainstream gamers. (remember a reviewer being firered not to long ago for giving a so called AAA game a 6/10 while the dev. financed that months issue)