Jurassic Park

ShaneU

This game looks awful, delayed for god knows how long, the extra time didn't do it any good. From a company with the track record of TellTale you'd expect a lot better. Suspiciously, the game got 4 10/10 user reviews on Metacritic on the day of release :pac:

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/jurassic-park-the-game/user-reviews

So desperate that they had to stoop to that.

jaykhunter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97GtJ1u9zv8

Here's some gameplay footage. Surprised Telltale did a bad job; but I guess it is a shameless movie-game ti....wait, where's Jurassic Park 4?! :mad:

Helix

Review tomorrow, it's actually decent enough

jaykhunter

Just checked there, IGN's review is up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKLCrtBqRdM

Score :

5.5/10

Helix

yeah thats about right

not a mess by any chance, and fans of the series will get something out of it

Mr E

Seems like some TellTale employees were caught red handed posting positive reviews of their own game ... (iOS version) ... Shame.

johnny_ultimate

Telltale's schtick is getting a little old at this point. Sure, it's nice they can rush these games out efficiently with recycled assets and all, but it works for some games much, much better than others.

Jurassic Park could make an amazing big budget adventure game. A point-and-click adventure doesn't doesn't have the same appeal. Alas.

Overheal

Making your own fake reviews is worse than shilling on these here boards.

jaykhunter

It should be illegal for someone who worked on the game to write a review for it before release. I'd even extend that to first degree relatives. Otherwise it's basically an advertisement, conning the reader into thinking it's a legitimate, considered appraisal.

At bare minimum, there should be a disclaimer before the review that fully discloses the vested interest the writer has in the product.

Ross_Mahon

I've seen the same thing been done with movies, chancers

ShaneU

I mentioned the fake reviews in the first post, did no-one read it?

Oafley Jones

I love the last line...

Our proposed solution? Turn to the pros. All professional game review websites worth their salt actively try to maintain a critical distance from the games they review.

I also love how this story has come from Gamespot. Facepalm.gif

Stev_o

jaykhunter wrote: »

It should be illegal for someone who worked on the game to write a review for it before release. I'd even extend that to first degree relatives. Otherwise it's basically an advertisement, conning the reader into thinking it's a legitimate, considered appraisal.

At bare minimum, there should be a disclaimer before the review that fully discloses the vested interest the writer has in the product.

Should it be illegal for then for someone to write a review for a game they never played then too :rolleyes:

jaykhunter

Stev_o wrote: »

Should it be illegal for then for someone to write a review for a game they never played then too :rolleyes:

Anything to declare, Stev_o? What kind of idiot reviews a game without playing it? Or are you confusing 'review' with 'dismissal'?

Helix

jaykhunter wrote: »

What kind of idiot reviews a game without playing it?

youd be very, very surprised

Helix

finally got around to finishing this and getting my review up today

http://clickonline.com/games/jurassic-park-the-game/4424/

disappointed, but fans will get something out of it if they wait til it drops under a tenner

Stev_o

jaykhunter wrote: »

Anything to declare, Stev_o? What kind of idiot reviews a game without playing it? Or are you confusing 'review' with 'dismissal'?

This is the internet! The breeding ground of idiots. Hell half the reviews on MC are done by people who don't play the games on stupid principles but deem that they have enough experience to write a 0 review up.

jaykhunter

surely this talk of idiots blindly reviewing games doesn't apply to boards.ie.......very happy with this part of the woods! never mind the rest of the youtube-commenting world! we're irish, not american teens over xbox live!