Lack of control and some awkward story telling, make Jurassic Park the game a disappointing experience....
The whole story centers around the can of shaving cream from the first film. In this can are Dino embryos that a rival company of Ingen wants. You play as......well you play as a lot of different people throughout this journey. You see, once you start Jurassic Park the game you notice that well, this isn't really a game. Instead its technically a movie with quick time evens scatted all around. When I first noticed this, it sucked me right out of the experience. Knowing that I wasn't really in control of any one character was a real downer. This isn't all bad though. Quick time events did however work well for the action scenes. Pulling off a challenging QTE while fighting off your own nerves was a real joy.
That brings us to our next point, the action. Jurassic Park the game does a fantastic job at creating heart pounding action scenes that keep you on your toes. Missing a certain button press could mean a missed opportunity or certain death. Of which the death scenes are fun to see and you'll find yourself trying to see all of them. The reason that all this action is so great is due in part to the look of the game. Telltale did a great job creating the look of the dinosaurs who make you feel a sense of fear. The human characters on the other hand seemed stiff and kinda rushed.
The story is where i think the game fails. Without spoiling anything, it starts out great but slowly becomes blah. It didn't really connect me to any of the characters in the plot, and seeing as some of them tend to keep betraying one another, (sometimes on more than one occasion) I didn't really care what happened to them.
At the end of the day the game was just lackluster. Unless your a big Jurassic Park fan I wouldn't recommend this game. Lack of control and some awkward story telling, make Jurassic Park the game, a disappointing experience....