Jurassic Park: The Game

I don't write many reviews, however I feel this diamond in the rough deserves some praise. By now most of us are privy to the world that is telltale games, and all though this is another entry in that list, it is one of the first. Just like The Wolf Among us, this game is worth a play! It fiils in some crucial gaps and uncaptured areas from the original Jurassic Park film, it still retains a lot of that old school charm that we all know and love. If you can spare the money and the less than 10 hours it takes to finish this game, I say GO for it!

I recently went through a playthrough of the game and I think a lot of people take for granted the story that's being told, especially in consideration of what the new Jurassic world films are like. If you can get a hold of this game, I'd 100% recommend to give it a try and to have some fun with it. The story is a really nice expansion of the Jurassic Park 1 (Which the Game has become weirdly "Soft-canon" now) and I think that most people will come to enjoy it, especially if you're a fan of the Jurassic park films. I do feel that you have to already have seen the film and at least enjoyed it to be playing the game. There is only one big problem with the game, it has 100% Aged. Most games from the 2000s and very early 2010s can age pretty nicely but this one has really aged poorly with its animations, but if you can get besides that, then its a solid game and a really nice expansion of the JP world before Jurassic World came out in 2015.

I like this.

Welcome to the Jurassic world of dinosaurs. Early days of telltale games where the episodic prowess started. Nice story and definitely Recommended!!!

It's a good thing you can't buy this game on Steam any longer. I'd say this has not aged well, but I think this would have been classified as jank right after it got released. The writing must have been done by a 12 year old. There's hardly any depth and the quips and jokes are pretty lame all throughout. Animation is stiff and limbs and weapons are stuck in weird poses sometimes. The quick-time events are borderline impossible to do correctly the first time, because of how fast you have to follow them and when there are scenes where the camera changes in quick-time events the game stutters making it even harder to push the right buttons. The worst thing is that the game sometimes just kind of soft crashes back to the menu half way or almost at the end of an episode, making you repeat the whole thing, because you can't save manually ... and you can't skip dialog. Please do yourself a favor and just skip this game. It made me angry more time than I could count and I didn't enjoy playing it much. It deserves the negative reviews. It's a mess.

I'm a fan of Tell Tale's The Walking Dead and later narrative adventure games so I expected this to be similar fair. Unfortunately, the gameplay is overwhelmingly QTE based and dialogue is more a means to puzzle resolution than a way to influence the flow of the narrative. I forced my way through episode 1 because I was at least intrigued by the plot hooks. Spoilers for the beginning of episode 2 if you care. ... In the opening of episode 2, the company mercenary crew display such a shocking lack of competence or professionalism in the face of both each other and what I believe are compsognathus, or compies,of book fame, that it put the final nail in the coffin. I'm not a fan of QTEs at the best of times, but this game is made of them and the moment the narrative stopped entertaining me I lost any incentive to finish it. Your mileage may vary.