Mostly without disclosing they are Telltale employees...

http://uk.gamespot.com/features/jurassic-park-user-reviews-abused-6346288/

Come on people, have you learned nothing? Should you be allowed to state your opinion on your own project? Of course! But be honest about being involved in its creation!

More controversy from Telltale for this Jurassic Park game eh? Interesting.

The backlash from the users are already quite evident. I wonder how much vandalism that page is going to get. The Telltale people should have expected it though. It's one thing to be proud of your work and want to show it off, but it's another if they're being so sneaky about it. Only one of the reviewers admitted to be a Telltale employee. I actually kind of feel a little bad for them...

I do too, from the developer videos I watched they're deeply proud of this game and really, really excited (and even if it's a bunch of QTE does it make it that different from Uncharted 3?).

However, people should know better and they could have mitigated this almost entirely by sending out review copies (presuming the game is any good, that is).

Judging from the first reviews, the game seems to be crap. Which is probably why they didn't send out any early review copies.

I really don't understand why people review their own products. There's practically no upside and a huge downside when they get caught.

Well that's the second backslash Telltale gets regarding JP within a week, that's pretty amusing.

The first one, if you didn't know, was regarding them causing small damages to a collector's Jurassic Park jeep that was lent to them and then refusing to pay for the repairs needed.

Wooah, I hadn't heard about that!

One of those Jeeps from the movie with the godawful color scheme?

Oops.

There's even more to that story. The ex-Telltale employee responsible for the Jeep deal was massively mobbed by people from the internet after the above story broke:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/mcy7l/today_i_received_nonstop_phone_calls_and_emails/

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/mbydq/i_let_telltale_borrow_my_jurassic_park_jeep_and/

Edit 1: Hmm I appear to have been ninja'd. Well played spindown... well played...

Edit 2: Wait... maybe not. Not the same link at all. Cool.

Wow, guess Telltale bit more than they could chew.

I guess Back to the Future will be the last of their games that I purchase, at least until they get their act together.

Yeah, we posted different stories. Yours comes first chronologically in the unfolding drama of the Jurassic Park Jeep.

This is crazy, one of them has to be lying, is it that hard to figure out who?

Anyway, I've no idea, but she claims there were no issues at all with the unloading and it was 30 feet but she says nothing about the inspection.

Regardless calling someone's personal line and threatening them (hell, just threatening them, no matter how) for some shit like this is fucking deplorable.

What I don't like about this is they are written as user reviews not as employees so Telltale's claim that they were doing it on their own is looking dubious. It looks even worse for them when they come out and pull the same shit EA did with the whole "Hey everyone does it!". If companies are going to try abusing the system in their favor then they should expect a backlash.

This is really worrying!

I credit our games companies with more ability than this. If they can write a game, get it through all the production and publishing crap, you'd think they could game a really simple system with a bit more skill.

I think this really is just a few idiot employees, that genuinely are wanting their game to be a success.

If I were one of these companies, and my aim was to abuse metacritic. I'd have at least a few hundred fake accounts on the go, I'd have a number of templated reviews such that they could be customised automatically by these accounts to appear real. It really isn't that hard. It would require more work, but really? This crap is just rogue employees, any company gaming the system could do so much better.