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Gerry Harding, Sarah Harding's father, is the chief veterinarian for the Jurassic Park dinosaur theme park, owned by InGen and located on the tropical island of Isla Nublar. The player controls various characters throughout the game, which is played across four portions known as "episodes." The game has decision-based objectives as well as quick-time events that affect gameplay as well as how the game's events play out. (That’s a problem that may also afflict you, incidentally, should you choose to end your play session before hitting one of the often-arbitrary autosave points – there being no option whatsoever to manually save progress.Jurassic Park: The Game is a point-and-click adventure game in which the player uses a combination of buttons to progress. The “press X not to die” action sequences don’t generally last very long – but you may find yourself repeating them over and over again should you not manage to hit the right crucial button at the right crucial moment. The game’s episodes are divided into a number of individual scenarios, which generally fall into one of two gameplay types – and it’s hard to say which is the more frustrating. It’s not until the very end of the game that one of two possible outcomes depends on the player’s actions.
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Any illusion of interactivity – such as the moment a non-player character dies suddenly and early as a result of a decision you make – is shattered by going back and replaying the scene, only to find that a different decision leads to exactly the same result. You’re never called upon to determine the direction the game goes in – you’re simply determining whether or not it continues. But the difference here is that while in Heavy Rain the results of all the quick time events affected the story’s outcome, in Jurassic Park they’re simply an obstacle to overcome before moving on to the next scene.
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The developers have cited Heavy Rain as an influence – and superficially, it’s an understandable comparison.
Jurassic park the game series#
It’s an almost entirely prescriptive adventure, in which a series of frustrating mini games must be overcome in order to progress the story.
Jurassic park the game movie#
Simply put, it isn’t really a game at all – in fact, somewhat appropriately, given the early 90s origin of its source material, it dredges up the spectre of the late and not-in-the-slightest-bit-lamented CD-ROM interactive movie genre. The gameplay problems are dealt with more easily. As such, it’s far less likely to appeal either to curious gamers or to fans of Spielberg’s film. Unfortunately, while those earlier-mentioned games were able to mask slightly underwhelming and formulaic game mechanics by feeling like genuine and immersive sequels to their respective films, Jurassic Park is both a weaker game and a less convincing franchise addition. And following recent years’ efforts such as Ghostbusters and their own Back To The Future, developer Telltale Games has now decided to shift attention from the 80s to the 90s with its take on the universally-beloved Jurassic Park. The trend for exploiting the nostalgia many of us have for fondly-regarded sci-fi blockbusters in videogame form shows no sign of abating.