2012-07-26, 10:46 AM
Recently played Jurassic Park: The Game.
It was really cool, i liked the way it fit with the plot of the the film and even provided a link between the first film and the sequel in a way that i didn't expect. The scenes were fast paced and the characters were all interesting.
There were lots of HOLY pomegranate moments too, like when the T-rex showed up near the start and you had to button mash like crazy to get out of the fence you were trapped under, or when you are playing as the little girl as she tries to get around the T-rex to get to some medicine. And i literally said Holy pomegranate when i saw the guy stalking the Velociraptors rather than the other way around.
The only things i didn't like about this game was that the T-rex was used far too much. I started calling it the Deux Rex Machina by the end. And some of the commands were too fast and too complicated, to the point where you would only get 100% (and not die many times) if you had played the game before and knew what commands were coming.
...Or maybe i just have pomegranatety reflexes.
Anyway, i love how they had new dinosaurs in this game too, not just the ones shown in the film. They even introduced something more deadly than Velociraptors, which i was surprised about, because i expected the raptors to show up a lot more in the game, rather than just the third episode. They also cleared up problems people had with the film (such as the Velociraptors being too big, which was explained in the journal as being an error in their DNA)
The puzzles were mostly fun and interesting (the puzzle where you have to work out what intersection you are at by looking at blueprints for example). some weren't so great (the one with the mating calls for example).
But overall i enjoyed it immensely and the fanboy in me was really happy to get back into Jurassic Park again.
It was really cool, i liked the way it fit with the plot of the the film and even provided a link between the first film and the sequel in a way that i didn't expect. The scenes were fast paced and the characters were all interesting.
There were lots of HOLY pomegranate moments too, like when the T-rex showed up near the start and you had to button mash like crazy to get out of the fence you were trapped under, or when you are playing as the little girl as she tries to get around the T-rex to get to some medicine. And i literally said Holy pomegranate when i saw the guy stalking the Velociraptors rather than the other way around.
The only things i didn't like about this game was that the T-rex was used far too much. I started calling it the Deux Rex Machina by the end. And some of the commands were too fast and too complicated, to the point where you would only get 100% (and not die many times) if you had played the game before and knew what commands were coming.
...Or maybe i just have pomegranatety reflexes.
Anyway, i love how they had new dinosaurs in this game too, not just the ones shown in the film. They even introduced something more deadly than Velociraptors, which i was surprised about, because i expected the raptors to show up a lot more in the game, rather than just the third episode. They also cleared up problems people had with the film (such as the Velociraptors being too big, which was explained in the journal as being an error in their DNA)
The puzzles were mostly fun and interesting (the puzzle where you have to work out what intersection you are at by looking at blueprints for example). some weren't so great (the one with the mating calls for example).
But overall i enjoyed it immensely and the fanboy in me was really happy to get back into Jurassic Park again.