Tag: Jurassic Park

Taking place during the movie, but never crossing over with the main characters, Jurassic Park: The Game follows the story of the can of dinosaur embryos Dennis Nedry tried to smuggle off the island. There are eight characters involved with the storyline but being completely honest, they're on an island where dinosaurs are running amuck, so expect some deaths to occur, including yours. That's right - in a telltale games rarity, it is now possible for your character to die in the game. It's one of the better parts of the game actually. Watching characters getting eaten by all the different dinosaurs helps deal with the painful lack of gameplay.

That is not to say that you don't do anything. When the player is involved it's generally little more than a bunch of button mashing and watching for Heavy Rain inspired directional buttons, all to make your character slowly turn their head. The limited level of actual interactivity involved here is tragic. There are certain points in the game where you can walk away from the computer and come back several minutes later and it is as though you've never left; the game will gone on without the player. Sure, they've thrown a handful of QTE type buttons that need to be pushed here and there but unless the gold medallion pops up in the upper right hand corner of your screen the worst that will happen is that your character will stumble a bit and look a tad stupid, but it doesn't make a difference in the end. For the scenes where it does matter, the gold medal will change down to silver, bronze and eventually no medal at all depending on how many times you die or screw up the button sequences. Each episode is divided into scenarios so once you've played through you can go back and redo sections if you want to improve your medal standing. Controls consist either of the keyboard (arrows keys or WASD) or a gamepad.

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