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Fun Sim

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Very fun Sim game, probably not for hardcore Sim players, but good for many hours of relaxing fun...even when you let the dinosaus eat the tourists. I think it has a huge amount of replayability, no park is probably gonna be the same.

Jurassic Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: May 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Jurassic Park was a great movie and now they have a great video game for it. Watch the T-Rex eat a goat for dinner. When a dino goes mad, jump in the helocopter and put him to sleep YOURSELF! Play fun-filled missions and create the island you want!

Great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I only have the demo and just that is great. I can't wait till' I get the full version. This is for sure worth your money.

Bad Experience with this purchase

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 24
Date: September 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off...this game was for the pc when we thought it was for the Sony Playstation 2; then after trying to load it onto the computer, it wouldn't work. After calling the tech support number given in the instruction booklet, we found that the distributor of the game no longer gave tech support for this particular game, and gave us no other avenue to pursue to resolve the problem. We are at a loss as to what to do now, and truly would like a refund of our purchase price for the game...Is there any way that we can get this done through Amazon or the originator of the game?

Jurassic Park : Operation Genesis

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a must for Jurassic Park lovers!it doesn't just give you "ultimate" control over the park there are other factors that try to break you down: like the annoying tormadoes that throw the dinosaurs around! with over 12 missions that challenge your abilities and the opportunity to create and care for over 25 different Dinosaurs this game will defintiley seem addicting. I totally reccomend this game especially if you enjoyed the films, it really gives you a "personal" insight into the magical world of Jurassic Park.

Best Dinosaur Park Sim

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've seen other "Dinosaur Park" Sims on the market, but this is certainly the original as well as the clear best.

Game play is fun and incredibly addicting. The graphics are wonderful and the dinosaurs themselves are exquisitely animated. The Brachiosaurs' bellies shake as the walk and the different species all have different AI's and behaviors.

The different "employees" of your park (such as Dr. Grant, Dr. Sattler and Dr. Wu and etc.) can sometimes be a little annoying in their insistence. And my only real complaint is that you can't "fire" dig teams, so once you find all the genetic material you need they just wander aimlessly. But that's just nit-picky and is a result of my having played it so much.

I've had this game awhile and have built many a park but I still find it fun each time.

A brilliant Sim, but is it a brilliant game?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

To start with, let me just make one obvious but highly important point: don't buy this game if you don't love dinosaurs, okay? If you don't like them then Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis isn't for you. Now. On to the review.
Well. JPOG is a sim, to begin with. There are missions and exercises, but the primary mode of the game is to construct and manage your very own Jurassic Park. Before I begin, I recommend you watch the introduction before you begin playing. It doesn't really tell you anything you didn't know, it's just satisfying to hear John Hammond say 'Ooh yes, you have a Tee-Rex!' in that lovely strong Welsh accent (no offence to any Welsh people reading this; I love that accent).
The interface is relatively simple to get to grips with. You've got Operation Genesis, Site B, Exercises, Missions, Options and 'Dinopedia' in the main menu. 'Dinopedia' is this useful little guide that tells you about the dinosaurs and tips for running the park, so it makes sense to have a flick through this before you unleash a 'starvin' 'ungry' Tyrannosaurus Rex into your park of slavering morons- I mean, er, happy visitors. Options is of course where you can customize your game- sound, controls, you get the picture. Exercises are practises to prepare you for some of the things that will inevitably go wrong in your park, e.g. giant carnivores going on rampages, twisters striking the island. Missions are obviously missions, where you play a sort of ranger in Hammond's park and must fulfill many carnage-filled tasks that the other staff couldn't be bothered to do- either that or they were all dead or stuck in emergency hampers (oh, how convenient...). And Operation Genesis is the main game itself. I'll come to Site B later on.
If I was you, I'd try the missions before you actually start building your own park. They just generally test your abilities to carry out varied tasks, ranging from saving the president of Dregovia from rampaging Velociraptors to mustering gentle herbivores into their paddocks. I think the best mission is the last one (you'll find that you've completed all the missions sooner than you'd think. I was confused when I couldn't click the 'next mission' button on the ending mission). Called 'Safari' (well, THAT'S an imaginative title...) you've gotta go round in your jeep taking photos of dinosaurs in different positions. However, you'll probably realise to late that when that T-Rex comes in your direction with a hungry look on his face he's actually charging at YOU.
Now. Onto the park. You start on your island, with nothing on it but trees, mountains and rivers. You start with 60 000 pounds, but this overwhelming amount whittles down surprisingly quickly. The expenses are used up on fences, ranger stations, cleaner stations, paths, benches, trash cans, park entrances and kiosks, and your debt will be announced by InGen leader Peter Ludlow's cries of 'you've run this park INTO THE GROUND!' Unless you can make profit instantly from your highly critical visitors, that is. I mean, come on- isn't it just a tad unfair to slag off a park about a bit of dirt or whatever, when, you know, THERE ARE REAL LIFE DINOSAURS, THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE DIED OUT 65 MILLIONS YEARS AGO?! Then again, I suppose the visitors do have a lot to complain about on certain occasions. You'll find that fatalities every now and then is the norm. There are some hazards that CAN be prevented, like a Spinosaurus breaking out of its low security enclosure and eating everything in site, and some that are unstoppable, like tornados. I remember thinking in my first twister alert: 'I know I SHOULD hit the emergency button, but...who cares.' The damage that the twisters make is just so cool! If you look at dinosaurs when they're up in the air, being whirled around by the wind, they're not actually panicking at all, simply making casual walking movements as if nothing is happening. But visitors do also get them killed in stupid ways also. I think one guy got so annoyed with my park that he commited suicide. I just remember the park ranger saying randomly on an ordinary, sunny day: 'FATALITY! £5000!' I tried to find the corpse and figure out its cause of death, only to find a man IN an Albertosaurus enclosure with no reasonable excuse of being in there. I can only assume he fell in there off a viewing vent or was pushed (...). I surprisingly 'Shaun of the Dead' style scene followed as Albertosaurs gathered round to feast on his flesh.
Graphics: Excellent. You'll need a good driver to run this brilliantly animated game. The water is reflective, grass and vegetation is brushed realistically to the side on impact, and most of all the dinosaurs are perfectly done. Their mouths open and close in cue to the sounds, and you can see their muscles rippling as they move. They even defecate, but I suppose that's not really graphics. I think the only problem are the humans. Their faces are ridiculous! Noses are non existant, and the cleaners look like they're made out of paper with completely triangular foreheads and mouths. But it's a good conversation piece, I suppose...
Sound: Perfect. All the sounds are excellent, and the dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park movies have their original distinct sounds- except the Dilophosaurus, which sounds more like a duck than a bloodthirsty meat eater. The new dinosaurs are also just as good, probably using roars of tigers and bears to create scary growls and roars. The rifle in the helicopter makes a nice realstic BANG, and there is a constant jungle ambience of the natural wildlife- birds, insects etc. The voice overs in the games are okay, but as always would have sounded better if done by the original actors themselves. Mr Arnold, the technician of the park, sounds similar enough, buy Dr Grant is way off, sounding more like a cheesy Elvis Presley impersonator than the leader of a fossil hunt.
AI: The AI is very good, but I wouldn't say excellent. The dinosaurs are brilliant, but the game falls down on the humans aspect. In the event of an emergency where everyone must evacuate into an emergency bunker, the stragglers who don't make it in time won't hide in another building, but will run in retarded fashions around the outside of the bunker for no particular reason. But, as I said, the dinosaurs are good. I think one, the Ceratosaurus, will actually turn its head around and sniff its own phosteria on occasion, and dinosaurs will drink and feed when they need to. If they are not fed, they will either go on Dino Rampages or go into comas. I think the coma is the easiest problem to deal with.
Overall: JPOG is an extroardinary game for those who enjoy dinosaurs. Its unique blend of exciting missions, massive varieties of dinosaurs and the ability to play in several different modes give it the edge over most sims, but there are some bugs, which will get slightly annoying- sometimes dinosaurs will forget to fall over when they die, and stand rotting for the rest of their time. But these aren't major issues, and I highly recommend that you give this game a try.

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A+ from me

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Just a little two easy, and not enough buildings

Every Thing else is A+! A must have for any park building sim lover. A great frist sim game! A great gift for a Jurassic Park Fan, or a Dino lover. The bast part of this game is that when you get bored building you still have plenty of other things to do. This game is a Park Building Sim, dinosaur breeding, frist person shotter/picture taking, dino herding, and a vister rescue game all rolled up into one $15-$20 game!

A little to easy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

One of the best games i've played in a cupple of years. They got a few good dinosaurs in there but it would have been better if they put some water dwelling dinosaurs in there like Meglodon. But i'll still give it a five!

Dino population

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

the game is fun exept for the only way for the dinosaurs to repopulate is to create more with a hatchery,they cant breed.I meen site B{a place were the dinnosaurs can be out in the wild},when the dinosaurs are out in the wild, why cant they breed?It would be fun to have baby dinos.That way you wont have all of these buildings all over the place so you can actuly have dinosaurs in the wild,but becides that the game is fun.I like it when the t-rex picks up the goat and eats him in one bite!

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