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Bo-oring!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Back in 1993 Sega released a dull, lackluster video game of one of the biggest films of all time. Quickly realizing their mistake they hashed out a different version of the game, claiming it would be bigger, tougher and better.

It isn't. It's a slow, boring game.

You can choose to be either Dr. Alan Grant or...a Raptor. Both have their problems. Why would Dr. Grant go around killing all those army guys (just what are they doing in the game)? And why a Raptor be killing other Raptors? Weird.

Obviously not learning from their first mistake Sega really dropped the ball on this so-called Rampage Edition. One of the slowest, sluggish and dullest platformers I have ever played.

WTF?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Remember the moment in the movie Jurassic park when Dr. Grant raced across the plains of the jungle on the back of a galimums while shooting his machine gun at attacking helicopters? How about when he trecked through ancient aztec ruins while shooting flame thrower equiped janitors? And don't forget the time he ran around on a cargo ship while blowing up floors and engines with his arsenal of grenades.

What? You don't recall those action packed moments? Neither do I, but that's what's presented in the sega genesis game "Jurassic park: Rampage edition."

Jurassic park rampage edition (JPRE) takes an alternate, more action paced look at the classic story of dinosaurs gone amok on a jungle island. Where in the books and the movies Grant was a quiet paleontologist who just wanted to dig up ancient bones in the desert, here he's become a super military commando who makes Rambo look like Ronald McDonald. Where in the movie and books Grant was focused on getting off the island without becoming dinosaur food, here he's shooting everyone and everything in sight...which isn't necessarily a bad thing, due to the fact that everyone and everything on the island is out to kill him.

It should be said up front right now. JPRE is the most unintentionally silliest games i've ever played. All the little factors add up to create an experience that is so silly and so dorky in all it's aspects that one can't help but chuckle when you look back on the experience.

Where to begin? Well, let's start with the other humans. For some reason, Jurassic park is populated with thousands of soliders and janitors, both who are equipped with military weapons and are, for some reason, out to kill you. No matter where you go, you'll find dozens of soldiers and janitors shooting at you and chucking grenades in your direction (Luckily, Grant can survive multiple grenade hits, so it's not too much of a problem). It's a mystery why these guys are out to kill you when there's no logical reason to it. Furthermore, they seemed to have made an alliance with the local dinosaurs because they never attack them, and the dinosaurs never attack them as well. It seems that poor Grant is under the crosshairs of every single living thing on the island.

Every stage you go through in the game (with the exception of Grant's final level) is packed to the brim with a riddiculous number of soldiers, janitors, raptors, compys, spitters, and even a triceratops or two. How do you deal with these threats? Here's a hint. You run. You run your stubbly little legs as fast as you can. While the whole point of JPRE is to be an action packed game where you shoot every living thing in sight, it's simply much more efficent to just run and jump your way to the exit (with this method, you can finish the game in about twenty minutes).

If you want, you can go through the game and try to kill everything with your enormous arsenal of weapons (more on those later), it's simply not really worth the effort. For one thing, you'll probably get hit a lot trying to inflict damage on your enemies. Trying to kill raptors is a pain in the butt due to faulty hit detection. A raptor (or two) will jump next to you and start bitting and whacking away with thier tails as you frantically fire your shotgun over and over again trying to hit them, yet they take no damage. So you leap away and start firing, and finally kill them after several shots. As a result of not being able to hit them at point blank range, you've lost 3/4th of your health and a lot of ammo has been wasted. When attacking kamikazie soldiers and janitors, it's very common to have several grenades chucked in your direction before you even get a shot off. Result? Loose health before you even take out one guy.

And let's not even talk about the wackiest enemy in the game. Attack helicopters! Yes, that's right. When going through the savanna level, Grant is constantly being assaulted by attack helicopters that fire rockets at him! When I saw one coming onto the scren for the first time, I had to pause the game because I was laughing too much to keep going. Here I was, just trying to get across that blasted savanna, being attacked by grenade chucking soldiers and machine gun equipped janitors, and here i'm being attacked by an attack helicopter?! What kind of psycho island is this?! Thankfully, these helicopters can be driven away by shooting...of all things...tranquilizer darts into them. Whee!

Fortunitly, to counter the threat of attack helicopters and flame-thrower equipped janitors, you have an enormous arsenal of military grade weapons at your disposal. No longer satisfied with gas grenades and puny tranquilizer pistols (from the original Jurassic park game on the Sega genesis), Grant has an arsenal of death dealing weaponry, ranging from shotguns to machine guns, to rockets and death dealing grenades. All of these get the job done, but the greatest satisfaction comes from using the greatest weapon in the history of video games: The electric gun (or as I call it, the zappy gun). This amazingly fun weapon doesn't just kill bad guys, it disintigrates them! Simply fire the gun, watch the bolt of electricity go out, and when it hits the janitor, he'll go "Ogh!", briefly turn into a skeleton, and vanish into thin air. It sounds brutal, but it's absoloutly hilarious to watch! (and let's face it, disintigrating an incredibly annoying enemey is tremendously satisfying!). As an added bonus, it also does the disentigration effect on dinosaurs as well!

If one wants to have lots of gunning and running action while shooting dinosaurs, then you'll certianlly get it while playing this game. Going through each level pits you against literally hundreds of soliders and dinosaurs, so much so that at times it's easy to get overwhelmed. Fortunitly, the game does include a desperatly needed checkpoint system (which was missing in the first genesis game). This is the kind of game that you can play two ways. You can run and try to survive to get to the end, or you can take your time and kill everything you come across, so you do get a bit of freedom when it comes to how you play.

But even with all the guns, the sillyness of the game, and even the checkpoints...JPRE just isn't much fun to play. As I said earlier, it's fairly easy to be overwhelmed by enemies in some levels, but the game eventually just boils down to "run and shoot" or just "run". There are items you collect for points, but those points don't do anything.

At it's core, JPRE is a simple, run around and shoot em up shooter. It has good graphics, some nice music (I do like the jazz/rock theme), but whether you like it or not is really up to personal taste. If you like mindless action games with guns...lots of guns...then you might like this. With many emulators on the internet, why not try downloading it and giving it a try? You just might find yourself getting a laugh or two messing around with those crazy janitors.

Jurassic park rampage

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Jurassic Park Rampage is one of the best games I have played on sega. The graphics are one of the best on sega so are the controls. The guns are the best I have seen on sega and when you play as a raptor it is so fun seeing the dinos screem and the people and when you play as grant you get shot guns and flam throwers when you use them on teradactals they burn to ashes in mid air. There are also people in the game you fight. When you play as grant you get to ride a dinosour and you have shot things as you run by them. Then there is one part were you are on a bout being chased by a t-rex.

Where's Billy???

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Better than the first game, needs more levels and good graphics.

best sega game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Man, I loved this game when it was in the vid stores. I didnt get very far on grant or the raptor, but they had the best graphics on a 2-d game that I have ever seen. I love the exact charactoristics of the raptor. The only drawback is that there are no save points but thats acceptible for a sega game.

Dino-mite!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The first game was great. This game is better than the because you have new weapons and new raptor moves and new levels. You gotta buy this game. it needs more levels though. But other than that this game has fast intense arcade gameplay. Buy it.

If you've enjoyed the first game, you're enjoy this

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The 1993 Jurassic Park game for the Sega Genesis was such a huge sucess that the company ordered to make a sequel. The result : Jurassic Park Rampage Edtion. Although the orignal was slighly better, this game has new areas to explore, new raptor moves etc. Chances are if you've liked the first game, more than likely you will like this.

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