While normally I aim for perfection in every game I play, I just couldn’t resist the temptation to mess up on purpose. It all started when I didn’t hit down as I approached a tree limb and banged my character’s head. From that point on, when a dinosaur would attack I would purposefully miss my cues to see the various ways that the movie would play out. I have been bitten, swallowed whole, stepped on, thrown, pounced, crushed, and maimed.
While there is minimal blood to keep the game playable for kids, the game will surprisingly show the teenage girl get eaten if you fail. I know without a doubt that I will get a second play through from Jurassic Park as I try for the gold medal on every level, and I am sure you will too because the temptation to feed your characters to the animals it too great to resist.
Jurassic Park the Game: Graphical Issues
Jurassic Park is new territory for Telltale. While they have dealt with 3D animation in Back to the Future, the art style was “cartoony”. Jurassic Park is supposed to look realistic and as such I have a lot less forgiveness for errors.
The facial animation was pitiful to say the least. When the characters would speak with anger their faces would look indifferent. Other times I would see the bottom of their teeth rip through their bottom lip.
Other graphical issues are, what I would consider, unforgivable. And I got screenshots of most of them.
Three glitches, Part of the rescue team holding an invisible AK-47, silhouettes of dinosaurs with no applied textures, a knife handle sticking through a man’s wrist. These are just 3 examples of the dozens of glitches in the game. At this point, I don’t know if these issues can be fixed with a patch because the game is mostly cut scenes.
Conclusion
Even with the many issues in the game, Jurassic Park was remarkably enjoyable. If Telltale can convince me, one of their biggest critics, to love this game, then that speaks volumes to the amount of improvement that they have displayed this year. The $30 price tag is a little steep, but this game is a must have for anyone who loves Jurassic Park because it does more justice to the franchise than the last two movies did.
