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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.

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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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.

best of jurrasic park

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

before i review i'm gonna tell you this,don't buy this if you don't take good care of your playstations,cause of the blue back of tha disc,it won't play on ps2s that are jacked up.anyway the game is...GREAT!a must have for jp fans,you can build your park,dig up fossils,create 9 dino exhibits,take picures,keep track of profits,tame your dinos,and be the owner of a5-star theme park,one of the best video game-experiences eva!

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis. . . What A Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Jurassic Park Operation Genesis is a really really cool game it is the best Jurassic park game I think. What you do is you make your own park, make Dinosaurs, make rides for people to see them, and take care of your Dinos. But you also have to take care of your park and your visitors. You call the shots and thats what makes this game great. The only thing I don't like about this game so far is you have to go on these Fossil hunts right so you can get DNA to make your Dinos but the thing I don't like is that you only get 3 dig sits to choose from and none of the three have
T-Rex or the slice and dice kings the Raptors. I soon to hope that I will get the other sits so I can have more Dinosaurs but ohter then that I love this game and will love it even more when I can get all Dinosaurs. So if your a big Jurassic Park fan and always wonderd what it would be like if Jurassic Park ever opened to the public you should play this game. The Park Is In Your Hands. . . Make It Happen.

Jurassic Park... the future of playstation gaming!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: August 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks! You have to play this because if you don't, that's a crime against yourself. This is the best Jurassic Park game ever! You can make kiosks for visitors, have sentry turrets to retire the dinosaurs if they go crazy, and personally one of my favorites is controlling the baloon, land cruiser, and ranger helicopter. So buy it now or never find out the true experience you'll find when you play this great game!

A game 65 million years in the making!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When Jurassic Park 3 came out, I went on a Jurassic Park fan site and saw that Vivendi Universal was making a Jurassic Park SIM game. Being the BIGGEST Jurassic Park fan in the world, I was in awe. Anyway, this game is based on a SIM version of Jurassic Park. You build John Hammond's dream theme park/zoo and make it the best theme park in the world. You have many things to do such as create JP, trainings, and missions. By completing everything (with the exception of Operation: Genesis) you unlock Site B: An island with dinosaurs to just enjoy and watch. When you build JP, you make fences and dinosaurs (duh!) plus kiosks, attractions and security things. The only problem is that you have a limit of things(like dig sites, dinosaurs etc.) and when you research things, they take a while and our obvious things (weather guard, ATM, gift shops, safari's, vaccines, etc.)but it is such a small complaint compared to all the other great things. This is the greatest game I have ever played and I hope they make an Operation: Genesis 2. Thanks for reading.

SOME CHEATS ONLY FOR THE PS2 VERSION!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have this game.I even got some cheats!CAUTION!:THESE CHEATS ARE ONLY FOR THE PS2!To get $ 250,000,R1,RIGHT,RIGHT,L1,R1,DOWN. NO TWISTERS,HOLD L1 and R1 and enter LEFT,RIGHT now let go of L1 and R1 and press L1 and R1 again.DINOSAURS WON'T GET SICK,UP,UP,R1,L1,DOWN,UP,DOWN.NO MORE RAMPAGES,L1,LEFT,UP,LEFT,UP,LEFT,L1.NO STORMS,R1,R1,RIGHTLEFT,UP,RIGHT.EVERYTHING UNLOCKED,R1,RIGHT,RIGHT,RIGHT,RIGHT,R1.MR.DNA R1,UP,R1,RIGHT,L1,DOWN.ISLA MUERETE,R1,R1,R1,L1,RIGHT.NOCOST WHEN TOURISTS DIE,L1,R1,LEFT,DOWN,DOWN,DOWN,DOWN.CHOOSE 3 DIG SITES WITH NO STARS NEEDED,LEFT,DOWN,RIGHT,L1,R1,L1,R1.EARN ONE STAR,RIGHT,L1,UP,L1,L1,DOWN.RAMPAGE TIME,L1,L1,L1,LEFT,LEFT,LEFT.CALL A TWISTER,LEFT,UP,RIGHT,DOWN,L1,R1.
ALL RESEARCH,DOWN,DOWN,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT,L1,DOWN,UP.
HOPE YOU ENJOY THE CHEATS!

Finally, a Jurassic Park game where you can build!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I'm 12 years old, and I received this game for my birthday a few days ago. I was so excited because ever since I saw Jurassic Park when I was about 3 years old, I've been a dino fan. Since the first movie, all of the Jurassic Park games released where action-based. I can't beleive that it took the wit of a foreign videogame company to finally come up with the idea of a Jurassic Park game that allows players to actually build their very own Jurassic Park. About 2 years before this release, Nintendo came out with Jurassic Park: Park Builder. The thing that made me so mad was that it was released on GameBoy!!! I mean, why the heck would Nintendo do this for GameBoy?! Seriously! Anyway, the game itself was entertaining. There are 4 types of gameplay: Operation Genesis, the main type of play similar to a sandbox scenario on a Command & Conquer. Excersise, which starts off with a few tutorials. After that, it turns into "advanced" mode, where you build a park with a specific goal, such as exhibiting a Tyrannosaurus. There is mission mode, where you can retire [kill] all the rampaging carnivores or take photos for a Jurassic Park calendar. Last but not least there is Site B, where the player creates dinosaurs with no fences or people. You get to sit back and watch the dinosaurs interact with one another. You can only play Site B by completing all of the missions. I think that the game has a lack of buildings, only around 15, including fences. I think that the game's variety of dinosaurs is great-25 species to be exact. The only dissapointing thing is that you can only have access to 3 digsites per game [out of 9]. This means that you can only have like 9 species of dinosaurs at a time. Overall I think the game is great for you hardcore dino fans.

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