{"id":9316,"date":"2026-05-14T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=9316"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:04:29","slug":"rest-in-peace-party-animals-review-bombed-over-ai-video-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/rest-in-peace-party-animals-review-bombed-over-ai-video-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rest in Peace&#8217; \u2014 Party Animals Review-Bombed Over AI Video Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Co-op game Party Animals has been spammed with hundreds of negative reviews after it announced a $15,000 AI video contest.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">As detailed on the game&#8217;s official website, Recreate Games is running a competition, inviting short films, drama series, animations, music videos, and more on any theme as long as it&#8217;s &#8220;positive&#8221; and connected to the Party Animals game.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">So far, so what, right? Well, it&#8217;s the next bit of the rules that&#8217;s caused a little commotion.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;[AI-generated content] must be the core creative tool, including but not limited to AI-generated images, video, music, voiceovers, 3D assets, etc.,&#8221; the competition insists. The winner secures a whopping $15,000, with cash awards of $1,500-4,500 also available for runner-ups.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">While Party Animals maintains a &#8220;very positive&#8221; Steam user review rating for all English reviews, recent reviews are now &#8220;mostly negative&#8221; after over 800 negative reviews were left since the competition was announced. &#8220;Rest in peace, loved this game but they&#8217;re leaning into AI now so I will no longer support this company,&#8221; reads the &#8220;most helpful review,&#8221; posted by someone with over 26 hours on record.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;I genuinely wonder if any company ever takes even a single glance online, to see what the general consensus is around AI, before they do something like this,&#8221; commented one unhappy player.<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">The 10 Best Co-Op Games<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Some of the best memories playing games are those you share with others. In honor of that and to help you make new ones, we've created a list of what we believe are the 10 best co-op games of all time.\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2021719738 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rest-in-peace-party-animals-review-bombed-over-ai-video-contest.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Another more moderate take said: &#8220;I think the general consensus is not the same as a vocal minority. The general consensus still just views AI as a novelty with no strong feelings for or against it.&#8221; Another replied: &#8220;This is similar to the massive push of gambling in and around all sports things. They want to normalize it so more and more of their potential customer base doesn&#8217;t know a world where it wasn&#8217;t ubiquitous to some degree.&#8221; Someone else wrote: &#8220;We saw this exact same song and dance when NFTs were the hot new buzzword.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-theme=\"light\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Party Animals AI Video Contest is about to begin!<\/p>\n<p>What wild ideas have you had for Party Animals? Join the &#8220;Golden Paw Awards&#8221; now \u2014 Party Animals 1st AI Video Contest!<\/p>\n<p>A short film you&#8217;ve been dreaming of making, a story that breaks all the rules, a character tribute to your\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/kWgY4zvQT0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Party Animals (@party_animals) May 13, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;The rules are pretty funny too,&#8221; pointed out another commenter. &#8220;&#8216;Any plagiarism or unauthorized used of others&#8217; work will result in disqualification. Like, do y&#8217;all know how generative AI even works&#8230;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Developer Recreate Games has yet to respond to the complaints.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The issue of generative AI&#8217;s impact on the creative industries remains one of the hottest topics in all entertainment, and some are all-in on the emerging tech. The CEO of Genvid \u2014 the company behind choose-your-own-adventure interactive series like Silent Hill Ascension \u2014 recently claimed &#8220;consumers generally do not care&#8221; about generative AI, and stated that: &#8220;Gen Z loves AI slop.&#8221; EA CEO Andrew Wilson has said AI is &#8220;the very core of our business,&#8221; and Square Enix recently implemented mass layoffs and reorganized, saying it needed to be &#8220;aggressive in applying AI.&#8221; Dead Space creator Glen Schofield also recently detailed his plans to \u201cfix\u201d the industry in part via the use of generative AI in game development, and former God of War dev Meghan Morgan Juinio said: &#8220;&#8230; if we don\u2019t embrace [AI], I think we\u2019re selling ourselves short.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Strauss Zelnick, boss of Rockstar parent company Take-Two, however, recently called the idea of AI making games like GTA 6 &#8220;laughable.&#8221; Reflecting on the reception to Google&#8217;s Project Genie, which can generate interactive worlds from a text prompt \u2014 the tech demo for which briefly sent game company share prices tumbling \u2014 Zelnick insisted: &#8220;These tools may help you create assets, but that won\u2019t help you create hits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world&#8217;s biggest gaming sites and publications. 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