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Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 16
Date: January 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It brings me great delight to know that a game based firmly off the first and slightly the second movie is a blast.
First of all, more then 80 percent of the game invovles you either making your own park, or playing 10-12 fantastic, action-packed missions. But, it also has some to do with the second Jurassic film. This is the Site B feature, where you can drop dinosaurs on an island and watch them interact with one another.
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Great Potential ^-^

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: March 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is going to be a great game. I LOVE jurassic park, and a playstation game where you can build your own park is going to be fun.. very different from the sims games ^-^

Great little theme park manager, fantastic Dinosaur life sim

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 27
Date: March 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Okay, here's the gameplay:

First you have to deal with basic park-building: Build an entrance, burger stall, toilets next to it, some viewing/photo platforms and fences. Lots of fences. (You'll later research more buildings: Visitor shelters, balloon rides, jeep safaris, souvenir shops, plus many upgrades for dino handling facilities.

Once you've hatched a few dinos and got the park running, you can basically do as you please! It's great fun to watch the Dinosaurs: The artificial intelligence is BRILLIANT! The dino behavior patterns were taken from palaeontology researchers/teachers (Jurassic Park Institute), so you have herds of plant-eaters (some aggressive and playful, others shy, some a bit boring but impressive (Brachiosaurus!). Some of the early Carnivores (hunters) are rather dumb, spending most of their time in show-off combat for territory and eating cows (out of the park's food dispensers). But the small Velociraptors hunt in packs and can bring down any enemy in record time... and they don't eat cow or goat either. Actually, the only thing a Velociraptor loves more than hunting and eating dinosaurs is hunting and eating humans...

... which brings us to the action missions: Dino hunt (control a helicopter and the sniper rifle... sometimes to shoot vaccine, sometomes bullets) Photo safari (cruise around in a jeep, make good dinosaur photos, sell them), Rescue (a visiting VIP crash-landed in the Carnivore Cage....) and so on. You can even set the dinosaurs loose on visitors - just make sure your Velociraptors are starving, and then delete the right fences and security turrets :)

Overall, I would have preferred a more complex park economics simulation, but that would have distracted from the main attraction of the game: Beautifully animated dinosaurs with lifelike behaviour AI.

ANOTHER Jurrasic Park game!? Ugh.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 40
Date: March 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think Universals got to give up makeing these abseloutely retarted Jurrasic Park games. The movie came out 10 years ago and is about as prehistoric as the dinousaurs themselves. Anyway as far as the game goes, it looks craptacular. It looks so boring it's not even funny. I'd rather ram my head into a stop sign then play this.

Jurassic Park Operation Genesis

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: March 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game rocks i havent got it yet but it looks so awsome
i cant get the demo to work but ile get the game soon
i reconment this game to any one who likes jurassic park and the rollercoaster tycoon series. Give a review if u really like this game
right on!

Jurassic Classic!!![.]

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: April 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Jurassic Park:Operation Genises for the PS2 is by far the best game i've ever played, especially if you're into the Jurassic Park Trilogy. This game is the first JP game for PS2 and packs a adventure like no other game! There is multiple ways of playing this game, the first mode is Operation Genises. In Operation Genises you're goal is to make a 5 star theme park full of dinosaurs! you're park should include basic things any other theme park needs for example, Attractions,Security, Resturants, Rest Rooms, and one very big difference, Enclosesures for the dinosaurs so they can't hurt the visitors! You do that and you'll be one famous manager! the second mode of playing is exercises. These will help you get prepared for operation genises so you know what you're doing when you're making a park! The third mode of playing is Missions. you do rescue missions, safari missions, all sorts of missions! the last mode of playing is Site B. In this you get to fill you're island with dinosaurs with no enclosesures and watch them roam free. The best part of all is there's no visitors allowed! (note: you must defeat all missions before unlocking site B!) The dinosaurs are amazing, the graphics are amazing, this game lives up to the Trilogy's! Dream It! Build It! Survive It! Jurassic Park:Operation Genises! Rated T for Teen for violence, Blood and gore.

A Walk In The Park

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: April 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis isn't really a unique game. It follows a formula that's actually pretty old. Simulation games have covered everything from building cities and theme parks, to every day living at home. However, Operation Genesis is a little different, and those differences prevent the game from being bland.

Basically, you're running a zoo. A zoo where the animals range from the size of a small cat to the size of a blue whale. But instead of just buying animals and attractions and setting them up in your park, you have to research them first. You have to put money in to dig up fossils, then once you have the fossils you have to give them to the genetics lab and have them extract the DNA. But here's the kicker: you have to have at least 50% of the dinosaur's genome in order to clone one. Also, the higher percentage of the genome you have, the longer your dinosaur will live. At low percentages, the dinos live for a few months, at higher percentages they last up to four or five years. If they're going to be around that long, you have to keep them somwhere - electric fences. You have to build the fences, build attractions so that visitors can see into the enclosures, and build security devices to keep those nasty carnivores from making lunch out of tourists.

The central gameplay is keeping your tourists happy, your dinos healthy, and your wallet full. But there are complications. There are different types of tourists with different needs and expectations. Dinosaurs often get sick and you have to research vaccines or quarantine sick dinos to stop an outbreak. And to add to your aggrevation, natural disasters often damage your park, forcing you to rebuild fences, find dinosaurs, bring them back to their enclosures, and keep tourists alive. As it was said in the first movie "every theme park has its problems", but as Ian Malcom then pointed out that in Disney Land "When the Pirates of the Carribean broke down, the pirates didn't eat the tourists." You'll be expected to check buildings and fences once in a while to keep up with maintenance

The game is divided into several sections. There's "Operation Genesis" which is the main theme park part of the game, "Missions" which allows you to go on safari tours of a park to complete an objective, and "Site B" which is a lot like the Site B from the movie in that there's no theme park, just dinosaurs running amuck and interacting with each other.

For all the ups in the game, there are a few downs. I don't know about the other platforms, but on PS2 there were times when the game would freeze (mostly from hitting buttons too fast). You can only unlock 3 digsites to find fossils - meaning you'll never be able to get every species of dinosaur in a single game. And most annoying of all - emails. People working in your park constantly email you to update you on things. Here's an example: say your T-Rex is giving you trouble and you want to get rid of it. What do you do? Well, you could kill it with a park ranger helicopter. But the second the Rex is dead, you get an email from your dino expert telling you that the T-Rex died. What's worse, say you created seven brachiosaurus at once. When their time comes and they've lasted four years or however long they're expected to live, you get seven individual emails telling you your dinosaurs have died. Another annoyance factor is dinosaur illness. At one point in the game, I literally had twenty dinosaurs (different species) that either died or went into a coma, all within five minutes of gameplay. The game picks the worst time to spring disasters on you.

Taking all of that into account, it's still a great game. If you like simulation games and dinosaurs (or either one), this is a good game for you. But as with most games, I recommend that you try it before you buy it. Rent the game or borrow it from a friend first, because it may not be for everyone.

Jurassic park: operation genesis by Vivendi Unerversal

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was really exited about this game and I had a good reasen to be because it is a pretty good game.It's not anything like any of the films thuogh.I have the game on a ps2 format and the grafics are alright but nothing amazing.I sugest that you hire it out first because this game is't for evryone it is a bit slow but once you get into it then it's alright.It has a variaty of 25 diffrent diosaurs including all the dinosaurs that you see in the films with the exeption of the compsognathus longpies (compes) there the little green ones in jurassic park 2.And the pteranodon longiceps the big flying one in that you see at the end of jurassic park 2 and in jurassic park 3.Sadly no marien dino's eather.I wuld give it an 3 and a half.

Good but repetitive

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the first sim game I have ever bothered with, and although it is very creative, I have also found myself sighing with boredom at times while playing due the redundant gameplay. The dinosaurs are interestng to observe, provided you are not busy performing park maintenance or reading the staff emails which seems to encompass at least 90% of the game. Overall I think it is a good game although I recommend renting it first as I think you can experience everything the game has to offer within a week of playing it.

A Fun, Challenging and Overall Brilliantly Well Done Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is first and foremost a god-game, the kind of game where you control everything from a commanding perspective. Yet this game has so much to offer and a heap load of things to accomplish and do it never gets old. First the graphics are very solid. Great textures, great enviormental effects and very, VERY realistic dinosaurs. This is one of the best aspects of the game because it feels and looks so realistic you can't help but take it seriously. They are by no means perfet however. Little glitches such as dinosaurs walking through one another and sometimes blocky shapes do frequently occur but aren't serious enough to effect the overall greatness of the game. There are many modes to the game, including Operation Genesis which is the main chunk of the game. This is where you research, build and maintain the park which is never a problem and always fresh and exciting. Despite this modes endless replay value, it also comes (as well as the entire game comes)with a very versitle camera system. It allows you to see what the visitors see, what the helicopters see as well as mostly anything else you could ever want to see from any angle and perspective. Another great mode is Missions Mode. Here you can have some serious fun, from taking money making pictures of dinos and herding large qauntities of them to sniping and taking them out, they are all fun. Depending on how skilled a gamer you are, theese may take you quite a while to complete or a short amount of time, but they are fun diversions from the park mode. (Park mode also can have some intense dinosaur sequences if you don't build the park well enough.) Tutorials, Dinopedia and Site B are other modes that really increase the longivety and pleasing effect to the game. All in all, JPOG is an incredible game that can appeal to anyone-from thrill seekers, world builders and even a combination of both. There is simply so much to do and learn and master and create that it really has no bounds to what you can do. 5 out of 5 stars all the way!

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