Jurassic Park: The Game
Encyclopedia
Jurassic Park: The Game is an episodic, downloadable third-person adventure
video game developed by Telltale Games
that is based on the Jurassic Park franchise
. The game, which is the latest of several Universal/Telltale deals, was originally announced in June 2010 before being revealed in the February
issue of Game Informer
. The first episode was expected for release in April 2011, but instead was pushed back to November 15 along with the original Console (PlayStation 3/Xbox 360) release, resulting in a multi-platform release with all 4 episodes at once.
Meanwhile Gerry and Jess make their way to the port when they come across Nima who is now delirious from the bite and needs medical attention so they start to head to the visitor center. They are sidetracked by a Triceratops in the road and manage to get it back in its cage. But its mother appears and attacks, which also attracts a T-Rex. The two barely manage to escape with Nima into a supply shed as the dinosaurs fight, staying the night inside. Once morning arrives, they leave, getting a tow to the Visitor Center via the jeep tour thanks to a scientist named Lara Sorkin who was stranded on the island thanks to the the storm. She had spotted the three from the security office and sent the truck through the system. The three reach the center unaware that the surviving cast of the first movie had just recently flee the island. Once inside Gerry hears a radio trying to contact them, locating it he speaks with Sorkin who helps cure Nima of her ailment. A T-Rex attacks once again forcing the trio to avoid it the best they can, eventually managing to lure it away with the help of the tour jeep. The three regroup back inside the visitor center to catch their breaths. However when mention of a rescue is told to Nima. She pulls a gun on Gerry and Jess saying there will be none.
Yoder's team manage to see the smoke but a Pteranodon
hits their helicopter, forcing them to land. While D-Caf tries to get it fixed, Yoder and Oscar head into the jungle to locate their targets. Nima's group reaches an unfinished roller coaster which is the only way down to continue their path. However while riding it, some Herrerasaurus
attack them. They manage to ward them off but nearly ride off the tracks. Yoder and Oscar locate them and help them up, taking Nima's gun away though she seem to recognize Oscar. The group head back to the helicopter but find that D-Caf is no where to be found. A T-Rex starts to head for them, forcing Oscar to fix the chopper himself. They manage to get away just in time.
The last target to be rescued is Sorkin and they head to her lab to pick her up. En Route, Nima gets into a argument with Oscar, clearly having history with him, but the fight is stopped once they reach the lab and meet with Sorkin. However, she refuses to leave with them, forcing Yoder to convince her by exploiting her desire for Isla Nublar to become a preserve. She concedes but ask to at least put lysine in the water for the herbviores. As she, Gerry and Jess do this, Nima tries to hijack the helicopter and escape. Yoder and Oscar stop her but in the scuffle, a knife hits the controls. Meanwhile, Sorkin's group is attacked by Velociraptors, forcing Gerry, Jess and her up the tower. They spot the helicopter and calls for help, only for it to crash.
Meanwhile Gerry and Sorkin argue over the best way to treat the dinosaurs. As they do, Jess sneaks away grabbing Sorkin's cigarettes and intending to have a smoke. A raptor appears before she can forcing her to flee back to Gerry and Sorkin, leading the raptor pack right to them. They fight them off the best they can until Oscar arrives and scars one of the raptors scaring them off. Now regrouped, the group head to the power plant as they need to reset the power to keep it from overloading and blowing up half the island. During the trek, Gerry finds out about Jess's smoking habit and they have a family argument which is broken up as they're needed to get inside the plant. The group work together to get inside the plant but the doors malfunction shutting them in. But not before the raptors from before get inside, forcing the group to an upper level. Oscar volunteers to go to the lower lever to manually open the door. However upon reaching it the raptors attack and ultimately kill him but not before he manages to get the door open. Yoder visibly distraught at the loss of his friend. They run into a room and lock themselves in. However they also find the body of a man covered in what look like a nest. Yoder identifies him as D-Caf and its revealed he fell prey to to the poison Nima was affected with earlier. Hes still alive but now brain dead and the group find that eggs were laid in his abdomen. Sorkin reveals she knew that the Troodons (the dinosaurs with the glowing eyes from earlier) had gotten out prompting Yoder's anger before holding her at knifepoint.
The groups reunite but Sorkin suddenly abandons them and goes on ahead. The others follow and overhear her arguing with InGen over bombing the island, using the others as hostages to disway them. When that doesn't seem to work, she goes to release the Mosasaur into open waters despite Gerry's pleading. No sooner then then Mosasaur is released, it slams into the facility knocking Sorkin into the ocean where she quickly eaten. With her gone Yoder calls his employers. However after doing so he turns on the Hardys seeing the rescue mission as a waste and now only caring about the embryos. He offers Nima to come with him but she sides with the Hardys. Thus he leaves up the faculty elevator leaving a grenade to explode and crack the glass letting water in. However he realizes too late that Jess swiped the embryos off him.
Trapped in the slowly flooding facility, Nima notices that the only way out is through a set of pipes in the ocean that'll lead them to some caves on the surface. Donning scuba gear, the three make their through the water while avoiding the Mosasaur. They manage and head for the docks but are attacked by Yoder. During the scuffle, the T-Rex locates them and they all stay still. Gerry kicks the embryo can to distract it but Yoder rushes for it giving himself away to the T-Rex and getting himself eaten. Gerry, Jess and Nima (the latter managing to grab the embryos) rush for the boats with Gerry distracting the T-Rex in a deadly game of cat and mouse to allow the latter two to escape. In the midst of it, the T-Rex knocks a platform with Nima and Jess on it with Jess hanging off the side. The embryo can also gets knocked to the ground as a result.
Its here the player is allowed to chose whether Nima goes to save Jess or the embryos. If she goes to save the embryos, Nima is eaten in her pursuit of it while Gerry and Jess escape the island on a boat with the former giving up his job to be a regular veterinarian and be close to Jess. He also mentions of taking care of Nima's daughter as well.
If the player decides that Nima should save Jess however, she pulls her up while the embryos are crushed by the T-Rex. Gerry, Jess and Nima escape the island together. However, Nima worries how to take care of her daughter without the payment the embryos could have provided. But Jess manages to find a bag of money in the boat as they sail off, implying that everything will work out in the end.
. However, Back to the Future was released first, on December 22, 2010.
On January 14, 2011, in an exclusive article for Game Informer
, Jurassic Park: The Game was officially unveiled. The game is set to have an original plot that takes place both concurrently and after the plot of the original Jurassic Park film and is set to resolve some loose ends of the film, such as the fate of Dennis Nedry's shaving-cream can and the embryos contained within. It was also announced that there will be new characters such as Dr. Gerry Harding - who appeared briefly in the movie - will make an appearance and that the characters from the original film will only be referenced.
There are also returning dinosaurs, which are the Tyrannosaurus
, Velociraptor
, Dilophosaurus
, Parasaurolophus
, and Triceratops
, as well as a new, nocturnal dinosaur with glowing eyes, which has been confirmed to be Troodon
that appears to be mutated, as they posses some kind of poison on their saliva, and Mosasaurus
that will be seen in Jurassic Park's marine facility. The game will also include dinosaurs, such as Herrerasaurus
and Compsognathus
, and also Pteranodon
that were known or speculated to have been in the park but were never shown.
It has been stated that the game will not be a shooter and instead focus more on its characters. The developers have described it as being similar to Heavy Rain
. It will also have decision-based objectives as well as quick-time events that affect gameplay as well as how the game's events play out, making it the first game by Telltale in which the player can be killed.
that the development staff wrote favourable user reviews for the game on Metacritic
without disclosing their affiliation to the game. Ratings on Metacritic reflected the development staff's view with a score of 10/10. Once users got a hold of this the ratings plummeted down to 3.1/10 as of the 19th of November.
Console release was confirmed for Fall 2011. A pre-order for the game is entitled to all 5 episodes delivered monthly, a collector's DVD at the end of the season, and special forums access to behind the scenes features/content (production art, game designer chats, etc.). On April 25, 2011, Telltale Games announced that the PC/Mac version would be delayed until Fall, resulting in a multi-platform release. All pre-orders up until April 24 will be refunded and a free game voucher was offered as compensation good for any Telltale game ever and in the future.
The game is now to be released on PC and consoles Nov 15. The game is up for pre-orders again, only this time, those who pre-ordered for the Xbox 360 version will get a pet avatar T-Rex, while PC and Mac players who pre-ordered those versions will get the deluxe edition of the game.
.
IGN
said of the game, "Jurassic Park is a meandering tale of forgettable characters getting lost in a park that is far less wondrous than the one we saw on the silver screen", giving it a 5.5 out of 10.
N00bAlert was decidedly more favorable assigning it a score of 7 out of 10 when reviewing the game saying, "...when you approach Jurassic Park more like an interactive movie than a modern game, it really is a lot of fun."
and MacOS X will be released as well as the PlayStation 3
and Xbox 360
versions simultaneously. However, the Xbox 360 will get a retail disc release, as opposed to the episodic release of the other platforms.
Adventure
An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome. The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports...
video game developed by Telltale Games
Telltale Games
Telltale Games is a leading independent digital first publisher and game developer founded in June 2004 as Telltale, Incorporated. Based in San Rafael, California, the studio includes designers formerly employed by LucasArts...
that is based on the Jurassic Park franchise
Jurassic Park (franchise)
The Jurassic Park franchise is a series of books, films, comics, and videos centering on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs...
. The game, which is the latest of several Universal/Telltale deals, was originally announced in June 2010 before being revealed in the February
February
February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years and 29 days in leap years...
issue of Game Informer
Game Informer
Game Informer is an American-based monthly magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of popular video games and associated consoles. It was formed in August 1991, when FuncoLand started publishing a six-page magazine, free in all its retail locations...
. The first episode was expected for release in April 2011, but instead was pushed back to November 15 along with the original Console (PlayStation 3/Xbox 360) release, resulting in a multi-platform release with all 4 episodes at once.
Episode 1
The plot of the game takes place at least during and sometime after the plot of the first movie though none of the game characters meet the main cast of the movie. The game starts with Gerry Harding, an employee and veterinarian of the park, whose showing his daughter Jess around the park. Its at this time that Dennis Nedry put his plan into motion to shut down the park and escape with the embryos. However his contact, Miles Chadwick and his hired assistant/smuggler, Nima Cruz, realizes he's late to meet them at the boat to take them off the island. They head into the park and find his body. They managed to find the embryos but are attacked by Dilophosaurus in which Miles is killed while Nima barley manages to escape but not before being bitten by an unknown dinosaur.Meanwhile Gerry and Jess make their way to the port when they come across Nima who is now delirious from the bite and needs medical attention so they start to head to the visitor center. They are sidetracked by a Triceratops in the road and manage to get it back in its cage. But its mother appears and attacks, which also attracts a T-Rex. The two barely manage to escape with Nima into a supply shed as the dinosaurs fight, staying the night inside. Once morning arrives, they leave, getting a tow to the Visitor Center via the jeep tour thanks to a scientist named Lara Sorkin who was stranded on the island thanks to the the storm. She had spotted the three from the security office and sent the truck through the system. The three reach the center unaware that the surviving cast of the first movie had just recently flee the island. Once inside Gerry hears a radio trying to contact them, locating it he speaks with Sorkin who helps cure Nima of her ailment. A T-Rex attacks once again forcing the trio to avoid it the best they can, eventually managing to lure it away with the help of the tour jeep. The three regroup back inside the visitor center to catch their breaths. However when mention of a rescue is told to Nima. She pulls a gun on Gerry and Jess saying there will be none.
Episode 2
Realizing there still some people unaccounted for on the island, InGen sends a rescue team to take them off the island. The team comprises Billy Yoder, Oscar Morales and Danny Cafaro, aka D-Caf. They head to visitor center to meet the Bravo team but when they try to radio all they hear is gunfire. Arrving at the site, they find the team dead save for one member, Vargas, whose gone crazy and tries to attack them. They subdue him and check the security cameras, spotting Nima holding Gerry and Jess hostage. The center is once again attacked by dinosaurs, resulting in Vargas' death while Oscar and Yoder rush back to the chopper. Meanwhile Nima, Gerry and Jess are hiking through the woods when they stop to take a break. Gerry starts a fire in hopes it'll signal someone while also distracting Nima with a conversation about her daughter. Jess manages to grab the radio away, slip away and contact Yoder but is found out by Nima who forces them to keep moving.Yoder's team manage to see the smoke but a Pteranodon
Pteranodon
Pteranodon , from the Late Cretaceous geological period of North America in present day Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota, was one of the largest pterosaur genera and had a maximum wingspan of over...
hits their helicopter, forcing them to land. While D-Caf tries to get it fixed, Yoder and Oscar head into the jungle to locate their targets. Nima's group reaches an unfinished roller coaster which is the only way down to continue their path. However while riding it, some Herrerasaurus
Herrerasaurus
Herrerasaurus was one of the earliest dinosaurs. All known specimens of this carnivore have been discovered in rocks of late Ladinian age in northwestern Argentina...
attack them. They manage to ward them off but nearly ride off the tracks. Yoder and Oscar locate them and help them up, taking Nima's gun away though she seem to recognize Oscar. The group head back to the helicopter but find that D-Caf is no where to be found. A T-Rex starts to head for them, forcing Oscar to fix the chopper himself. They manage to get away just in time.
The last target to be rescued is Sorkin and they head to her lab to pick her up. En Route, Nima gets into a argument with Oscar, clearly having history with him, but the fight is stopped once they reach the lab and meet with Sorkin. However, she refuses to leave with them, forcing Yoder to convince her by exploiting her desire for Isla Nublar to become a preserve. She concedes but ask to at least put lysine in the water for the herbviores. As she, Gerry and Jess do this, Nima tries to hijack the helicopter and escape. Yoder and Oscar stop her but in the scuffle, a knife hits the controls. Meanwhile, Sorkin's group is attacked by Velociraptors, forcing Gerry, Jess and her up the tower. They spot the helicopter and calls for help, only for it to crash.
Episode 3
Sorkin's group manage to escape the falling tower then get down the rest of the way, outrunning the raptors into a tunnel entrance. Nima, Yoder and Oscar survive the crash with Yoder finding the shaving can and the embryos inside. Oscar scouts ahead and see the raptors managing to open to the door to the tunnels and go inside, he follows after. Nima and Yoder strike up a deal to split the profit from the embryo delivery. A T-Rex comes into their area while chasing a Parasaurolophus forcing the two to run to the tunnels. Yoder drops the can in the process and thus must go back out and get it with the T-Rex still prowling around. Nima and he continue through the tunnels when she spot glowing eyes in the dark and refuses to go further without more light. Yoder messes with the power source while Oscar, in another tunnel, is tracking a raptor. He manages to kill it after a brief fight and meets up with the two who reveal the plan for the embyros. Oscar, while hesitant, agrees to go along with it and they search for a way to contact a helicopter.Meanwhile Gerry and Sorkin argue over the best way to treat the dinosaurs. As they do, Jess sneaks away grabbing Sorkin's cigarettes and intending to have a smoke. A raptor appears before she can forcing her to flee back to Gerry and Sorkin, leading the raptor pack right to them. They fight them off the best they can until Oscar arrives and scars one of the raptors scaring them off. Now regrouped, the group head to the power plant as they need to reset the power to keep it from overloading and blowing up half the island. During the trek, Gerry finds out about Jess's smoking habit and they have a family argument which is broken up as they're needed to get inside the plant. The group work together to get inside the plant but the doors malfunction shutting them in. But not before the raptors from before get inside, forcing the group to an upper level. Oscar volunteers to go to the lower lever to manually open the door. However upon reaching it the raptors attack and ultimately kill him but not before he manages to get the door open. Yoder visibly distraught at the loss of his friend. They run into a room and lock themselves in. However they also find the body of a man covered in what look like a nest. Yoder identifies him as D-Caf and its revealed he fell prey to to the poison Nima was affected with earlier. Hes still alive but now brain dead and the group find that eggs were laid in his abdomen. Sorkin reveals she knew that the Troodons (the dinosaurs with the glowing eyes from earlier) had gotten out prompting Yoder's anger before holding her at knifepoint.
Episode 4
Just as Yoder is about to kill Sorkin he stopped by Gerry who convinces him to let her go. Jess discovers a grate leading to the marine facility and the group go to smash it open. However the Toodons try to enter their room. Yoder blocks them as as the group get the gate open. They manage and the group head though the tunnels with the Troodons still in pursuit. Gerry and Nima manage to find a ladder and make their way to the surface with the others still trapped in the tunnels. Gerry tries to go back but Nima convinces him they can take care of themselves much to his reluctance. During the small break the two talk with Nima revealing thar Isla Nubar was actually the home island of her family before InGen brought it out and converted it and that she trying to provide for her daughter. A passing tour car gets their attention and they use it to head for the marine facility.The groups reunite but Sorkin suddenly abandons them and goes on ahead. The others follow and overhear her arguing with InGen over bombing the island, using the others as hostages to disway them. When that doesn't seem to work, she goes to release the Mosasaur into open waters despite Gerry's pleading. No sooner then then Mosasaur is released, it slams into the facility knocking Sorkin into the ocean where she quickly eaten. With her gone Yoder calls his employers. However after doing so he turns on the Hardys seeing the rescue mission as a waste and now only caring about the embryos. He offers Nima to come with him but she sides with the Hardys. Thus he leaves up the faculty elevator leaving a grenade to explode and crack the glass letting water in. However he realizes too late that Jess swiped the embryos off him.
Trapped in the slowly flooding facility, Nima notices that the only way out is through a set of pipes in the ocean that'll lead them to some caves on the surface. Donning scuba gear, the three make their through the water while avoiding the Mosasaur. They manage and head for the docks but are attacked by Yoder. During the scuffle, the T-Rex locates them and they all stay still. Gerry kicks the embryo can to distract it but Yoder rushes for it giving himself away to the T-Rex and getting himself eaten. Gerry, Jess and Nima (the latter managing to grab the embryos) rush for the boats with Gerry distracting the T-Rex in a deadly game of cat and mouse to allow the latter two to escape. In the midst of it, the T-Rex knocks a platform with Nima and Jess on it with Jess hanging off the side. The embryo can also gets knocked to the ground as a result.
Its here the player is allowed to chose whether Nima goes to save Jess or the embryos. If she goes to save the embryos, Nima is eaten in her pursuit of it while Gerry and Jess escape the island on a boat with the former giving up his job to be a regular veterinarian and be close to Jess. He also mentions of taking care of Nima's daughter as well.
If the player decides that Nima should save Jess however, she pulls her up while the embryos are crushed by the T-Rex. Gerry, Jess and Nima escape the island together. However, Nima worries how to take care of her daughter without the payment the embryos could have provided. But Jess manages to find a bag of money in the boat as they sail off, implying that everything will work out in the end.
Development
The game was originally announced on June 8, 2010 along with Back to the Future: The GameBack to the Future: The Game
Back to the Future: The Game is a graphic adventure video game based on the Back to the Future film franchise. The game was developed by Telltale Games as part of a licensing deal with Universal Pictures. Bob Gale, co-creator, co-writer and co-producer of the film trilogy, assisted Telltale in...
. However, Back to the Future was released first, on December 22, 2010.
On January 14, 2011, in an exclusive article for Game Informer
Game Informer
Game Informer is an American-based monthly magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of popular video games and associated consoles. It was formed in August 1991, when FuncoLand started publishing a six-page magazine, free in all its retail locations...
, Jurassic Park: The Game was officially unveiled. The game is set to have an original plot that takes place both concurrently and after the plot of the original Jurassic Park film and is set to resolve some loose ends of the film, such as the fate of Dennis Nedry's shaving-cream can and the embryos contained within. It was also announced that there will be new characters such as Dr. Gerry Harding - who appeared briefly in the movie - will make an appearance and that the characters from the original film will only be referenced.
There are also returning dinosaurs, which are the Tyrannosaurus
Tyrannosaurus
Tyrannosaurus meaning "tyrant," and sauros meaning "lizard") is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex , commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is a fixture in popular culture. It lived throughout what is now western North America, with a much wider range than other...
, Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. The type species is V. mongoliensis; fossils...
, Dilophosaurus
Dilophosaurus
Dilophosaurus was a theropod dinosaur from the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic Period, about 193 million years ago. The first specimens were described in 1954, but it was not until over a decade later that the genus received its current name...
, Parasaurolophus
Parasaurolophus
Parasaurolophus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 76.5–73 million years ago. It was an herbivore that walked both as a biped and a quadruped. Three species are recognized: P. walkeri , P. tubicen, and the...
, and Triceratops
Triceratops
Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous–Paleogene...
, as well as a new, nocturnal dinosaur with glowing eyes, which has been confirmed to be Troodon
Troodon
Troodon is a genus of relatively small, bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period . Discovered in 1855, it was among the first dinosaurs found in North America...
that appears to be mutated, as they posses some kind of poison on their saliva, and Mosasaurus
Mosasaurus
Mosasaurus is a genus of mosasaur, carnivorous, aquatic lizards, somewhat resembling flippered crocodiles, with elongated heavy jaws. The genus existed during the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous period , around 70-65 millions years ago in the area of modern Western Europe and North America...
that will be seen in Jurassic Park's marine facility. The game will also include dinosaurs, such as Herrerasaurus
Herrerasaurus
Herrerasaurus was one of the earliest dinosaurs. All known specimens of this carnivore have been discovered in rocks of late Ladinian age in northwestern Argentina...
and Compsognathus
Compsognathus
Compsognathus was a small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. The animal was the size of a turkey and lived around 150 million years ago, the early Tithonian stage of the late Jurassic Period, in what is now Europe. Paleontologists have found two well-preserved fossils, one in Germany...
, and also Pteranodon
Pteranodon
Pteranodon , from the Late Cretaceous geological period of North America in present day Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota, was one of the largest pterosaur genera and had a maximum wingspan of over...
that were known or speculated to have been in the park but were never shown.
It has been stated that the game will not be a shooter and instead focus more on its characters. The developers have described it as being similar to Heavy Rain
Heavy Rain
Heavy Rain is an interactive drama psychological thriller video game created by Quantic Dream exclusively for the PlayStation 3. The game is written and directed by Quantic Dream's founder and CEO David Cage....
. It will also have decision-based objectives as well as quick-time events that affect gameplay as well as how the game's events play out, making it the first game by Telltale in which the player can be killed.
Controversy
It was reported by 1UP.com1UP.com
1UP.com is a video game website owned by IGN Entertainment, a division of News Corporation. Previously, the site was owned by Ziff Davis before being sold to UGO Entertainment in 2009....
that the development staff wrote favourable user reviews for the game on Metacritic
Metacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
without disclosing their affiliation to the game. Ratings on Metacritic reflected the development staff's view with a score of 10/10. Once users got a hold of this the ratings plummeted down to 3.1/10 as of the 19th of November.
Release
In a reveal trailer released February 2011, Jurassic Park: The Game was confirmed for April 2011.Console release was confirmed for Fall 2011. A pre-order for the game is entitled to all 5 episodes delivered monthly, a collector's DVD at the end of the season, and special forums access to behind the scenes features/content (production art, game designer chats, etc.). On April 25, 2011, Telltale Games announced that the PC/Mac version would be delayed until Fall, resulting in a multi-platform release. All pre-orders up until April 24 will be refunded and a free game voucher was offered as compensation good for any Telltale game ever and in the future.
The game is now to be released on PC and consoles Nov 15. The game is up for pre-orders again, only this time, those who pre-ordered for the Xbox 360 version will get a pet avatar T-Rex, while PC and Mac players who pre-ordered those versions will get the deluxe edition of the game.
Reception
Jurassic Park The Game has been met with mixed reviews currently holding scores of 57% for the Xbox 360 version, 56% for the PS3 and 56% for the PC version from MetacriticMetacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
.
IGN
IGN
IGN is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media. IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites or "channels", each occupying a subdomain and covering a specific area of entertainment...
said of the game, "Jurassic Park is a meandering tale of forgettable characters getting lost in a park that is far less wondrous than the one we saw on the silver screen", giving it a 5.5 out of 10.
N00bAlert was decidedly more favorable assigning it a score of 7 out of 10 when reviewing the game saying, "...when you approach Jurassic Park more like an interactive movie than a modern game, it really is a lot of fun."
Platforms
Episodes for Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
and MacOS X will be released as well as the PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
and Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
versions simultaneously. However, the Xbox 360 will get a retail disc release, as opposed to the episodic release of the other platforms.