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The biggest attraction and money earner in Jurassic World Evolution are the dinosaurs, and they are by far the best aspect of the game. There are almost 70 different dinosaurs to unlock and add to the park and each one has specific needs like food, socialization, and entertainment that must be met to keep them healthy. One of the more interesting parts of the game is that players are able to acquire genetic traits to add to their dinosaurs in order to increase different stats. The player may want a dinosaur with a heartier constitution or maybe they want one...
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There have been a lot of Jurassic Park games produced over the past two-and-a-half decades, almost all of which have cast players as dino outbreak survivors like Dr. Alan Grant or armed park rangers/mercenaries. I’ve always found this a bit disappointing, though, because the Jurassic Park character I always wanted to be was John Hammond. The guy got to build the no-expenses-spared dinosaur park of his dreams! Sure, there were some pre-opening jitters, but when everybody else was running around screaming, Hammond got to chill out and clean up the ice cream. He’s obviously the guy to be.
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The game also features a pretty serious pacing problem. You’ll quickly learn when you move to each new island that the go-to strategy is to make a fossil center, go back to a previous island (where you’re already rich since money doesn’t transfer) to pay for an expedition, then return to your new island to sell the fossils. You’ll go in this rinse-repeat cycle until the new island is stable enough to pay for things on its own and by the time you get there you’re likely moving onto the next island you’ve unlocked. There’s no real incentive to stay...
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John Hammond, inventor of the dino-riddled theme park, is either the most naive character ever created, or a sick and twisted menace who knew exactly what he was doing when inviting guests to get close and personal with a ravenous T-Rex.
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While Jurassic World Evolution sometimes can be a bit unwieldy from the number of systems it is balancing at once, Frontier Developments mostly finds a nice middle ground in Evolution between depth and accessibility. As long as I get a few moments to zoom down in and marvel at the wonder of dinosaurs now and then, I'd give careful consideration to endorsing this park.
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Jurassic World Evolution provides plenty of options for fans of dinosaurs but offers little for fans of park management or real customization beyond splicing dino DNA.
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The Jurassic franchise is taking over the world! Dinosaurs are back in a big way, from the silver screen and now on your PC's with Jurassic World Evolution. It's been a long wait for another park management simulator set in the universe. Was it worth the wait or is this a genre better left extinct? Find out in the review below.
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Jurassic World: Evolution is an island-making sim where frustration and wait-times are scarier than any of the dinosaurs. The idea of creating 40 dinosaurs and their enclosures sounds like a real treat, but in this case, I'm sure Dr. Grant would have stayed at his dig site.
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Look I might be biased so let’s get that out of the way first, Jurassic Park is in my top 5 films of all time. So when word of a park simulator from the franchise was hinted at I couldn’t wait for the chance to right the wrongs of John Hammond, like seriously why were your grandchildren there mate? Jurassic World Evolution gives you that opportunity and has you as the new director as you attempt to revive the dinosaur menagerie for science, and so little Timmy can watch a T-Rex eat a goat.
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Somehow, even dinosaurs aren’t enough to save a disappointing and middling park sim that undermines its own fun with poor design choices.
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Dinosaur theme park, in terms of ideas, it doesn’t get much cooler than that. “I’m not worried. It’s just a zoo, Henry.” Well, for anyone that ever saw a Jurassic Park film, we know exactly how that all turned out. Even knowing that, we all still would want to give it a try. Frontier Developments, makers of the well-regarded management sim Planet Coaster, are giving players the chance to build their own dinosaur theme park in Jurassic World Evolution (Hubris not included). Management sim fans, dinosaur fans this is your chance to build your very own Jurassic Park.
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Probably the best ever use of the Jurassic Park licence in a video game, marred by repetition and exploitable systems.
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Jurassic World: Evolution might not be the deepest RTS out there in terms of options and mechanics, but as far as Jurassic Park experiences go, this is probably the best one that exists out there.
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Addictive, rewarding, immersive- Jurassic World Evolution is the dinosaur management game we've been dreaming of for years, but never quite believed we'd ever get the chance to play. Frontier have created something truly special.
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Jurassic World Evolution may not be the deepest management sim ever, but it embraces its subject matter with gusto. I defy you not to gawp in wonder as your first carnivore emerges into the daylight or feel a tweak of pride as your park income hits the $5,000,000 mark. Claw your way through Jurassic World Evolution‘s quirks and you’ll discover an engaging, exciting and sometimes brutal take on the theme-park management genre.
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Despite all this, after playing over fifty hours of Evolution, I still certainly had my fair share of fun. The dinosaurs are absolutely the star of the show here and surprisingly enough, the controller support for Evolution is spot on and really intuitive. But if you’re looking for a solid dinosaur-themed tycoon or business sim, then you might wanna keep looking. Because sadly, Evolution just comes off feeling like it was rushed out the door. Here’s hoping Frontier Developments continues to support the game in the coming months because what’s here right now is just a skeleton of a game...
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May it be the likes of Shadow of the Colossus or Metal Gear Solid, if it’s quite there but not enough to push the boundaries, it’s still an awesome game.
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From your opening moments creating a small park with a handful of dinosaurs while you listen to Jeff Goldblum give appropriately cheeky warnings to deadly dinosaur breakouts and jealous sabotage efforts later, Jurassic World Evolution is true to its franchise roots.
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Jurassic World Evolution is an okay game. There is plenty of fun to be had testing your ability to create large pens of dinosaurs living in harmony. Watching a Velociraptor stalk its prey, the first time you hear the iconic roar of the Tyrannosaurus Rex...it does the Jurassic franchise proud. However, Jurassic World Evolution could have been an amazing game if the developers had just used some of the staple elements of park simulation games from the past. You know, like that Theme Park game that launched in 1994?
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Jurassic World Evolution strikes a chord with me, and that’s evident in the amount of time I’ve sunk into it. The presentation is gorgeous, the mechanics are engrossing, and balancing your veggiesauraces and meatysauraces has never been fun. There’s a handful of bugs to shake loose, but based on Frontier’s track record I’m fairly certain that these can be shaken out post launch.
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Besides the fact that there’s absolutely no evolution involved in it, Jurassic World: Evolution is a bad game because it’s just a bore of a park sim. Sure, the dinosaurs look nice enough, but the process of unlocking new species is beyond tedious and actually running the business is shallow and quickly gets stale. It beats getting mauled by raptors, but after careful consideration, I’ve decided not to endorse this park.
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Just because you can make a tycoon game about Jurassic Park doesn't mean you should.
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Jurassic World Evolution is a simply gorgeous and robust game. This multilayered gameplay experience takes place in a beautifully crafted world with lush terrain, changing weather patterns, and an incredible amount of control. Even the musical score awakens that sense of wonder and the gravity of what you are doing - you get to run Jurassic World! It is an outlier in the long line of movie-based video games, standing as a beacon of hope that it is possible for them to actually be good while s...
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Business management games don’t come much cooler than Jurassic World Evolution, and as subject matter goes it has done the the franchise proud. The dinosaurs look fantastic, the park building is easy and coherent, and the ensuing chaos when it goes a little bit off the rails can be frantic and enthralling. It’s pacing where the game struggles a little, with a few too many sedentary moments stretching your patience, but you’re not likely to get any closer to building your own park packed with once extinct animals than this.
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Despite some opaque game mechanics and missing tutorials, turns out running a dinosaur park is brilliant fun and the best time sink you can play.
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Jurassic World: Evolution may not have all the options most management gamers would expect, but it makes up for it with the best dinosaurs of any game. It’s missing quite a lot of features that have been standard in sim games since Theme Park, such as staff and guest interaction and park customisation options. But Evolution isn’t a game about making the tourists happy - it’s a game about making the dinosaurs happy. Find them, incubate them, cater to their needs, it takes up all of your ...
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