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Who else would buy a decent Jurassic Park game 10 times

Jacobi

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With high production values, the art design of the first movie, a free island with loose objectives (kinda like in Trespasser, but more fleshed out), the dinosaurs living their own life... Put some stealth in it, like the MGS3 camouflage outfits so you can check out what the dinosaurs are doing safely... Please Spielberg, if you are reading this PUT THIS GAME OUT I'LL BUY IT AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE :( Make it happen :(
 
Death_Born said:
Who needs Jurassic Park when we have Spore? Genetically engineering aliens > dinosaurs

I was just about to post that. Especially since your genetically creatures can look dinosaurish if you want...AND fly spaceships.
 
Jacobi said:
With high production values, the art design of the first movie, a free island with loose objectives (kinda like in Trespasser, but more fleshed out), the dinosaurs living their own life... Put some stealth in it, like the MGS3 camouflage outfits so you can check out what the dinosaurs are doing safely... Please Spielberg, if you are reading this PUT THIS GAME OUT I'LL BUY IT AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE :( Make it happen :(

The genesis version is still one of my favorite games, and I liked the first PS2 one a lot too.. cept for the human portions.
 
The SNES version is one of the most underrated games for the system.
 
As long as Velociraptors would kick your ass if they ganged up on you (semi-automatic heat-seeking plasma nuker = no), I'd be all over it.
 
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I only had it once though.
 
Teknoman said:
I was just about to post that. Especially since your genetically creatures can look dinosaurish if you want...AND fly spaceships.
No -_- no matter how long you'll engineer they won't look as fly as JP dinosaurs (even the Turok ones always looked SO MUCH inferior) and they won't behave "realistically" also probably

Byakuya769 said:
The genesis version is still one of my favorite games, and I liked the first PS2 one a lot too.. cept for the human portions.
PS2 one? You mean the PSX one?
 
I'm hoping for a proper Dino Crisis sequel using the Frameworks Engine but I know deep inside it'll never happen and that makes me sad.
 
Nah. After playing Turok I'm pretty much done with dinosaurs :D. Maybe some Crysis enhanced graphical feast with some Uncharted 3rd person gameplay mixed in but beyond that I'm done.
 
Cardon said:
I'm hoping for a proper Dino Crisis sequel using the Frameworks Engine but I know deep inside it'll never happen and that makes me sad.

Same. Dino Crisis RE4 style would kick so much ass.
 
Cardon said:
I'm hoping for a proper Dino Crisis sequel using the Frameworks Engine but I know deep inside it'll never happen and that makes me sad.
It will happen but it'll be bastard dino-humans with robotic submarine cybernetic guns (who are space ninjas) who live in an underwater base
 
Jacobi said:
Cool, I didn't know there was another JP game on the SNES apart from the top-down one

wth are the dinos tho :lol

In that one your playing the role of spoiler basically. The competitor company comes to the island to steal dinosaurs etc since they didn't get them embryos.

Most of the game is fighting Humans though plenty of dinosaur action mixed in.

Jurassic Park 1 Game was great and was one of those big accomplishment games to actually complete the whole thing
 
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. I want a good Jurassic Park game so much - a first person shooter, or maybe an adventure game like Uncharted. Something with very smart dinosaur AI. I want to genuinely feel like I'm being hunted. I'm sort of a closet Jurassic Park fan - one of my favorite movies of all time. I even enjoy The Lost World and Jurassic Park 3.

Jurassic Park SNES was good. It kind of grew long in the tooth near the end and desperately needed a save game feature (seriously, even if you haul ass, that's a four hour game), but for an isometric adventure game with shooty bits, it's still pretty enjoyable.

Jurassic Park Genesis was good for it's time, but nowadays it's garbage. Choppy animation, ugly levels, questionable music. Something that I do find remarkably interesting though is the lengths they went to in programming the Velociraptor AI when you play as Grant. They are some of the smartest enemies I've seen in a side scrolling game - smart enough to navigate levels almost as well as you do, which makes for a great feeling of tension as a Raptor chases you through a level every step of the way.

Jurassic Park Sega CD is... eh. I'm not one for point-and-click Adventure games. And, of all places, the Sega CD? It's not terrible, I suppose, but I never got very far.

Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues on the SNES is trash. It's sort of like Contra lite, but without the intensity. Velociraptors in this game often get the drop on you and this eventually ends up with you dying because a Raptor leapt at you from off screen and you couldn't kill it before it sank it's claws in to you. Not fun.

Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition on the Genesis is more of the same from the original Genesis game, but with a greater focus on playing as the Raptor this time. Still wasn't very fun.

Jurassic Park: Trespasser on the PC is ultra-bleeding-edge stuff for it's era. It attempted technology and gameplay that most PC games didn't try to do for nearly five or six years after it's release. It boasted something like 16 square miles of jungle terrain (the size of a real island), sophisticated emotion-based artifical intelligence, inverse kinematics animation, physics, bump mapping, specular highlighting, a dynamic foley engine (that could, theoretically, produce the sound of any object hitting another object by mixing from a library of sounds on-the-fly), voice acting by A-list Hollywood celebrities... all of this for a game developed in 1998. Unfortunately, the cost of being so bleeding edge was very, very, very high - Trespasser went heavily overbudget and was delayed many times. The game that shipped was almost too buggy to play. I had heard that the game was originally intended to be a hyper-realistic survival horror/adventure game set on Site B, but after so much money was sunk in to it, Dreamworks cut their losses and retooled the game to be a straight forward shooter (as a result of the team's original goal for total realism, however, actually shooting anything accurately is extremely difficult). This game begs for a remake in something like Crysis now that technology has caught up to the concepts Trespasser was trying to unsuccessfully implement all those years ago.

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (PC/Xbox/PS2) is probably the best of the lot, in a way. Think of it like Zoo Tycoon with Dinosaurs. It was originally billed as a theme park simulator with "action game segments" (I believe early screenshots showed a human character with a tranquilizer gun tromping through the park on foot), it eventually became more theme park simulator than action game. And it's pretty good at it - not perfect, but fun enough that every now and then (once every year or so) I get an itch to play it and install it for about a week before I get frustrated that another hurricane has left my park in shambles.
 
I unknowingly bought Trespasser, therefore I've essentially paid for the right to be absolutely and completely skeptical about anything with the words "Jurassic Park" in the title. That game had potential and was ambitious... unfortunately that's all it was.
 
I really liked the GEN version when I was a kid. It was fun rampaging as the raptor, and while Grant's gameplay was a bit deeper, that river level was an absolute bitch. Had pretty realistic graphics for the time too.

One of the few licensed movie games with some actual effort behind it.
 
Sega1991 said:
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. I want a good Jurassic Park game so much - a first person shooter, or maybe an adventure game like Uncharted. Something with very smart dinosaur AI. I want to genuinely feel like I'm being hunted. I'm sort of a closet Jurassic Park fan - one of my favorite movies of all time. I even enjoy The Lost World and Jurassic Park 3.

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (PC/Xbox/PS2) is probably the best of the lot, in a way. Think of it like Zoo Tycoon with Dinosaurs. It was originally billed as a theme park simulator with "action game segments" (I believe early screenshots showed a human character with a tranquilizer gun tromping through the park on foot), it eventually became more theme park simulator than action game. And it's pretty good at it - not perfect, but fun enough that every now and then (once every year or so) I get an itch to play it and install it for about a week before I get frustrated that another hurricane has left my park in shambles.

Awesome. :D I'm also a gigantic Jurassic Park fan! OG was pretty much the game I wanted since I was 15 and begging for a Genesis game like SimCity on SNES where you can make a Jurassic Park.

I would buy multiple copies of this game. Imagine the Unreal engine at play with this. I remember playing Gears of War, the scene where you run through the rain to the station, and thinking how it reminded me of the T-rex attack on the cruisers from the first movie/book. How fucking amazing would a FPS survival horror game ala Bioshock be with this game as the source material?

I'm geek-gasming...
 
Teknoman said:
I was just about to post that. Especially since your genetically creatures can look dinosaurish if you want...AND fly spaceships.

beaten. gawd damn it... i even got it wrong.
 
Well IS based on a movie, closest in my movie to feel like a good "jurassic park" though it wasn't, completely different series, was "Dino Crisis", they did it all right there (in my view)
 
Coincidentally, I saw the original JP 10 times in the theater. So, YES. I'm a complete dinosaur nut.


I want Dinosaur Hunter, too. I can't believe it was a Japan-only Xbox 1 game--what kind of accounting is that? Must've been a tax write-off for the publisher or something. *grumble grumble*
 
Did anyone actually make it through the genny version with the raptor? Me and my brother spent the better part of our childhood trying to kill Grant, but never could figure out how.
 
I thought it couldn't be done. Then I played Far Cry.

Been waiting for a Jurassic Park kick-ass game ever since. Any day now... ( :( )


(I haven't played Trespasser, but the Carnivore games also did kinda well for me)
 
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