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Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
Steam User 65
I am mihajlo i am 6 , and i love this game very much and it is very special for me.
Steam User 35
Jurassic World: Evolution – Premium Edition ...is a tycoon-style business manager. Take over the latest attempt at creating a dinosaur-themed zoo across the multiple islands of the Muertes Archipelago, balancing your attention between InGen's competing divisions while avoiding the mistakes of the past. This review is based on the game with all DLCs.
⚙ Game Description & Mechanics ⚙
Starting with an arrival point, you construct your park with paths, buildings and enclosures. You build expedition and research facilities to get more dinosaurs and buildings, ranger stations and ACU centers to keep your dinosaurs in check, various amenities to maintain your visitors' food, drink, fun, shopping and restroom needs, bunkers and storm defense stations for protection, and more. Almost all buildings must be connected to a path and be powered through a series of electrical substations and pylons from your power stations.
Dinosaur enclosures are built from a variety of fences (some electrified) which address the needs of the dinosaurs held within. Each dinosaur requires a certain enclosure size with enough grass, forest and water for its liking, and has a specific minimum and maximum tolerance of same-species dinosaurs and total enclosure population. They also have their own diet, herbivores even getting rating-boosting Jurassic plants once Paleobotany is unlocked. Visitors must be able to see your dinosaurs, whether from a viewing gallery or platform, a nearby hotel or a guided-vehicle tour, and the more visibility they have, the more money you make.
In addition to making money from visitors and investing in research and development, you must balance your attention between three competing departments: the science, entertainment and security divisions, which will regularly offer randomly generated contracts with specific objectives to achieve. Each successful contract increases your reputation with that faction (which unlocks new stuff and missions), while slightly decreasing the others'. If you ignore one too much, you'll be plagued with sabotaged power stations and enclosure doors mysteriously left opened.
☺ What I enjoyed ☺
The developers really knew what the most important part of a Jurassic World game had to be: the dinosaurs. Each of the 68 species (including 5 hybrids such as the Indominus Rex) was meticulously designed and animated down to the last detail: how they move, eat, look around, sleep, yawn, growl, blink their eyes. Even their behavior was considered: Velociraptors will stand in circles to socialize, Dilophosaurus will display their frills to intimidate the others and become their group's alpha, Triceratops will charge your truck if you overstay your welcome in their enclosure. Yes, Alan, those Parasaurolophuses do indeed move in herds!
Rarely have I seen so much attention given to the source material outside the more fanbase-heavy intellectual properties. Everything is a reference to the movies: the way genetic manipulation is handled, how dinosaurs get sick from modern common diseases, transportation systems such as monorails and gyrospheres, the tropical storms and how they make the roads slippery and might damage your electrical grid, every pixel of aesthetics (even more so in the Return to Jurassic Park campaign). You're modifying the color pattern of a Stegosaurus? Do you want default skin, one of the patterns from genes you researched, or one of the five specific patterns exactly as seen in The Lost World? It's there!
☹ What bothered me ☹
I wish there was much more physical changes possible to dinosaurs through genetic manipulation, but you're limited to their color scheme (speaking of which, why would zebra genes change a dinosaur's scales to striped black and white? Zebras have black skin, it is merely the fur that is striped). The movies made a point to explain that their dinosaurs aren't the chubby, feathered fellows modern science knows them to have been because they used frog DNA to fill the gaps in their genetic makeup, resulting in the reptilian, scaly look they have. In this case, why doesn't introducing bear, dragonfly, crow or cockroach genes have any impact whatsoever in their appearance? The only hybrids are those you unlock with Dr. Wu in the campaign.
While the game rightfully put a lot of time and effort focusing on the dinosaurs, the park management and customization are lacking. To keep visitors happy, you'll always combine the same three buildings and repeat them every once in a while across your park. There are no decorations, no color customization of anything you build, and the few scenery objects available are terribly finicky to place. Unless you flatten the entire build area, putting nearby buildings on different land heights will create sharp hills and crooked roads you can barely drive your ranger vehicle on.
My Verdict: ★★★★☆ - "Next on your list!"
Overall, Jurassic World: Evolution is a very good tycoon game and an excellent Jurassic World game, assuming you go through all the DLC campaigns to unlock everything, but that's what's holding it back from perfection. If building a park is what you want and don't actually care that much about dinosaurs, stick to Planet Zoo from the same developers.
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This was just my opinion.
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Steam User 42
Nobody asks me what my favourite dinosaur is anymore. It’s a triceratops, in case you were wondering. This game lets me fill my park with them, so 10/10. What’s your favourite dino?
Steam User 57
Surprisingly fun park management game! Liked it enough to go buy the sequel. My advice? Don't buy the sequel.
Steam User 65
dont play if scared of dinosaur (warning: dinosaur in game)
Steam User 31
dinosaurs
Steam User 24
Needs to be played just for Jeff Goldblum's snarky comments.
Seriously though, there's not a huge amount different here from hundreds of other "park / hotel / hospital / theme park / ant colony etc etc" sims. But what does differentiate it is that it's really nicely tied in to the "Expanded" Jurassic Park Universe. By expanded, I mean all the Jurassic World and Camp Cretacious cartoon parts of the series. Unlike certain other franchises whose continuity people need to be taken out and hung by their nuts till they confess their sins, the people working on this game did a fantastic job of making the buildings look like in-universe buildings, and the cinematography match that of the movies and cartoons.
Frontier have done a fantastic job with this, and I love jumping into the jeeps and rushing around the park catching dinos etc.
There IS a learning curve, and you DO need to look up some walkthroughs from time to time. I only have two complaints, really.
1. Sometimes a shop just will not get visitors. At All. Ever. Period. Nada. And there's no reason for it. It's powered, it's connected to a path, there are hundreds of visitors, but because the game engine has an invisible line that says "beyond this people, nobody wants a snack", the shop gets nobody.
2. Sometimes the dinos are restless and there's no real hint why. In one case, it was because there was ONE too many trees in their enclosure, which led to them battering the fence down every two minutes. I deleted the tree (on advice found on a discussion forum) and hey presto, they're happy as clams.
So, I guess the moral here is that the game is lacking park advisors who can help you sweat the small stuff. There's advisors for science and economy and stuff who give you missions, but if you're scratching your head about why something barmy is occurring, you just need to save, and then start bulldozing until you find the culprit.. then reload your save, and fix it without the mass destruction.
Saying all that, the kids and I have put in a LOT of time into the game and we love it. You just have to learn the mechanics, and then you're off! :D