It is a difficult thing to distance yourself from something you’ve had a hand in creating when trying to be critical. That is especially true when you’re talking about a game you’ve spent months or even years of your life working on day after day. Knowing this, it would be hard to take a review of a game seriously that’s been written by someone who developed it. But what if you read a game review from one of that game’s developers and didn’t even know it?
That’s a situation Telltale Games is now dealing with after a pair of its staffers wrote user reviews for Jurassic Park: The Game on Metacritic where they heaped praise upon the game without noting who they were.