Well this game is certainly more recent than "Lost: Via Domus" (click for my review), as it came out just a few months ago. It didn't exactly open up to welcoming arms either, the game was ripped apart by most critics. I knew going in that this would be a pretty bad game. Here's the thing, I was feeling nostalgic. It's been roughly 18 years since the release of the first Jurassic Park film. It remains to be one of my favorite movies of all time, and part of me wanted to go back into that world so I decided to play the game.
The main story of the game occurs right after the characters from the first film escape the island. So apparently, according to this game, there were more people on the island that got left behind. It includes an INGEN worker and his daughter (our main hero's of the game), a researcher, a female mercenary, and three solders hired by INGEN. The story revolves around that canister that housed the dino embryo's in the first film that got lost in the mud when Dennis Nedry bit the dust. The Mercenary is out to collect that can and sell it for a lot of money. The soldiers are there initially to rescue any stragglers but get caught up in the scheme to sell the canister (at least one of them does). The INGEN employee and his daughter are just caught in the middle of this fiasco while also being stranded on an island full of crazy ass dinosaurs.
I appreciate that someone rehashed the lost canister storyline from the first film. But I feel like it was to little to late. There have been two movies since, and no one ever mentioned it. It was the main focal point of the games storyline and I liked that they didn't go crazy with multiple stories. But overall, it was just badly done. All the characters in this game are just awful and super annoying. You don't just play one of them, you play as all of them at least once. But none of them make for very interesting game characters. I didn't care if any of them died. In fact, sometimes I would screw up on purpose just to watch them die.
The biggest and most terrible drawback to this game is the horrendous game play. This is got to be the stupidest game I've ever played. You don't physically control the characters movements with the joystick. When action is occurring, the screen will tell you what button to press at that exact moment. So you have to press the corresponding button at that moment or else you fail. And it's not just one, you have to press and move several controls in a row at the right time just to make your character move or perform an action. This was the ONLY way to control whatever character and holy crap was it dumb. It was tedious and frustrating. I stopped caring about the story about 20 minutes into the game play when I realized this was how it was meant to be played.
So running from dinosaurs and fighting them off was completely uneventful and unexciting. You had no say in how you ran or fought, it was all precisely controlled. It took away from any potential fun you could have had. It all felt like an annoying task instead of fluid game play. The whole game was annoying. Even the conversations were terrible. You got to chose what you could say to people, but no matter what you said it had no affect on the course of the story. There wasn't multiple endings.
I think they intended to a good thing by bringing people back to the original Jurassic Park but failed miserably. This is the worst game play I've ever experienced. So bad.
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