GameSpot reports on some shenanigans on the
Jurassic Park: The Game Metacritic Page, where they spotted what they cleverly call "telltale signs" that Telltale employees submitted user reviews giving the recently released movie tie-in perfect 10/10 scores. GameSpot, no stranger to
review controversy, explains what aroused their suspicions: "Between the reviewers' constant lionizing of Telltale Games, complete sentences, proper punctuation, and paucity of spelling errors, we began to suspect that the user reviews were not the product of actual players, but of Telltale representatives. Sure enough, a cursory Google search on the reviewers' user names backed up our suspicions. One of the reviewers was a user interface artist at Telltale; another was a cinematic artist. According to their LinkedIn profiles, both were relatively new to the studio, but they should have more than enough experience in the industry to understand this was a bad idea."
This recalls a controversy
earlier this year when a BioWare employee submitted a positive user review for Dragon Age II, and GameSpot received the following explanation from Telltale on their policy in matters like this: "Telltale Games do not censor or muzzle its employees in what they post on the internet. However, it is being communicated internally that anyone who posts in an industry forum will acknowledge that they are a Telltale employee. In this instance, two people who were proud of the game they worked on, posted positively on Metacritic under recognizable online forum and XBLA account names." Both GameSpot and Metacritic are properties of CBS Interactive.
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Calwen wrote on Nov 18, 2011, 15:39: Just out of curiosity, does anyone here actually read the Metacritic user reviews -- other than to validate their own opinions?
They often feel like a long, quantified Youtube comment. Sometimes... especially if I'm on the fence about buying a game. I try to read a handful of both the higher scores and lower scores, and determine if anything mentioned is something I would like or dislike. I then try to read a few of the average scores. Obviously I don't read every comment.
The thing is... you can't just read "all good" or "all bad" scores alone and get a decent idea of whether a game is worth purchasing. You really need to read both and see if anything that "stood out" that the commenters mentioned, would "stand out" for you.
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