PS5 Exclusive Flop Caught With Fake-Positive Metacritic Reviews

A PS5 exclusive dubbed a “Dino Crisis spiritual successor” by the community, at least initially, faces allegations of manipulating the Metacritic user reviews.

Alongside the ever-popular Resident Evil and Street Fighter series, for years, fans have longed for a new Dino Crisis game. At this point, we don't care if it's a new game or a remake.

In my humble opinion, considering that it’s been 27 years since the original release of Dino Crisis on PlayStation, I feel that a full remake from the ground up is the way to go. This would not only be a perfect way for veteran fans to get acquainted, but it would also be a perfect way to introduce a legion of new fans.

Capcom has at least shown some vague interest in reviving Dino Crisis, but that’s been via questionnaires asking if fans would like to see it return. I would assume that tons of fans would love to see that happen.

Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be anything concrete that Dino Crisis is making an official return, especially with Capcom being busy getting ready for the launch of Resident Evil Requiem on 27 February 2026, not to mention the other rumoured Resident Evil remakes.

We Want the Dino Crisis Series to Return!

So, with the desire for a triumphant Dino Crisis return still burning, over the years, indie developers have been creating their own dinosaur horror games.

The most recent one is Code Violet on the PlayStation 5.

Sadly, Code Violet hasn't been all that well-received by the community, with reports of unpolished visuals and outdated gameplay. Code Violet is a PlayStation 5 exclusive, and the reason why it never arrived on PC, apparently, is because the developers didn't want the community to create “vulgar” mods for the game.

However, some of the community speculated that the reason why Code Violet was only released on PlayStation 5 is that it’s much more difficult to get a refund from Sony, compared to the likes of Valve and Microsoft.

At the time of writing, Code Violet has scored just 32 from critics and 2.4 from users on the aggregate website, Metacritic.

Allegations Have Been Made

Yet, despite what the Metacritic scores say now, as brought to our attention by the Twitter user JayViper, Code Violet had perfect 10 user review scores pre-launch. This feels strange on its own, but even more so when these user reviews appeared days before the game's release on 10 January 2026.

Later in the Twitter thread, JayViper suggested that Code Violet may have been delayed internally and did not inform Metacritic of this change. Thus, meaning that user reviews could be published ahead of time with Metacritic, with the assumption that nothing has changed.

When it comes to critic reviews, they can be published on Metacritic before release. However, user reviews must wait until at least 36 hours have passed since the release date, which makes the early user review scores suspicious.

In a later post, JayViper updated his followers to say that the early user reviews for Code Violet had been removed or at least, hidden.

One would assume this was following the activity being brought to Metacritic’s attention. The scores now reflect what was mentioned earlier in this article. A far contrast to the perfect 10’s.

I have reached out to TeamKill Media for comment on these allegations, but am yet to hear a response. If we get an answer, we'll be sure to update this article!