![]() The landscapes are also more open in comparison to the first, enabling greater freedom in how you design and assemble your parks. ![]() The act of building enclosures feels easier thanks to smarter shortcuts, and you can now speed up time to accelerate the action when you’re waiting for tasks to be completed. This sequel bolsters the core gameplay with quality-of-life improvements and more mechanics to consider. When a dinosaur escapes, you can also take direct control with ranger cars or helicopters, to chase them down with tranquiliser darts, as the action zooms in on the fleeing masses running for shelters before a velociraptor pounces. Adverse weather conditions, like sandstorms or thunder, and bouts of disease can quickly flip the script against you. The game offers a certain level of satisfaction in maintaining a prosperous park, but it’s equally enjoyable to watch everything go south. Fail to do so and their comfort level drops, leading to agitation and dinosaur breakouts. ![]() It’s not as straightforward as scattering trees for herbivores and meat for carnivores (although the latter are much less fussy, albeit more aggressive), you have to plant specific foliage to generate fruits or nuts, or create specific environments like forest, rocks, or sand areas tailored to their liking. It’s rewarding when you’re familiar with the living requirements of a species. ![]() There are over 75 different species in the sequel, including flying and underwater creatures (which aren’t technically dinosaurs), which all have their own personality and preferences you have to accommodate, to prevent them from causing havoc. When you’re not deciding whether to sell doughnut or steaks you’re hiring scientists to venture on expeditions for fossils, extract DNA, modify genomes, and incubate dinosaurs to boost your park’s appeal. There’s greater customisation in the sequel, so you can alter the kinds of items your shops sell, or adjust their appearance based on the aesthetic you’re after.Īs you might expect, Jurassic World Evolution’s main selling point is managing the dinosaurs themselves. Like other games in the genre, your main goal is to build an attractive and stable park for your guests, ensuring there’s basics like shops, toilets, hotels, and attractions to keep the business ticking over at a profit. If you’re unfamiliar with the original, Jurassic World Evolution is basically a crisis management simulator. As a management sim in the same vein as theme park construction titles like RollerCoaster Tycoon, it was the perfect marriage of genre and license – marred only by some rough edges and repetitive design. As such, the wonder of dinosaurs feels stuck in the 1990s – a time where Dino Crisis and Turok briefly placed the reptile beasts next to zombies and Nazis in the premier tier of gaming villains.ĭinosaurs have barely featured in games in the 21st century (unless you count the robots in Horizon Zero Dawn), yet the main outlier – and best thing to come from the movie franchise reboot – was Jurassic World Evolution. Hollywood may have built a financially successful franchise beyond Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic, but each subsequent film has felt like a gradual descent into soulless popcorn fodder. It’s been almost three decades since Jurassic Park felt exciting. Jurassic World Evolution 2 – you probably should’ve spent more on the walls (pic: Frontier)Ī mix of theme park and zoo simulator seems like the perfect Jurassic Park game but can this sequel improve on the flawed original?
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