March has arrived, bringing with it some great new games. SSX is out tomorrow, so far I have only watched my brother play the demo but from what I have seen it looks impressive visually and fun in terms of gameplay with lots of tricks and combos to pull off on your snowboard. The big one (mass effect 3) is out next week on march 9th so there is lots to look forward to this month.
What I would like to talk about in todays blog post however is Jurassic park: the game. The reason being I noticed steam have lowered the price an incredible 66%, from £21.99 down to £7.47. And for this price it is worth checking out, I have completed the game myself a few weeks back and despite it being more of an interactive story than a game it does a good job of telling a story. You see the game through the eyes of more than one character, by being able to switch between them to complete tasks, such as distracting an almighty t-Rex by pushing crates off of a ledge to cause it to turn around, it then once it's distracted you switch to the other character who now is free to run away.
As i mentioned, it is more Of an interactive story, requiring mostly just mouse clicks or keyboard presses at the appropriate time (known as quick time events) such as pushing a dilophosaurus (the dinosaur that spits poison in dennis nedry's face in the first movie) trying to devour you, off of your chest. The other parts of the game that are not quick time events, are mainly conversations and investigations, such as following blood trails and things to that extent. The game lasts around 6 hours covering 4 chapters, the last chapter was definitely the best though featuring plenty of plot twists, betrayals and deaths!
Jurassic park: the game tells a good story in typical Jurassic park fashion, a group of strangers stranded on an island full of rampaging dinosaurs which have escaped their enclosures. But then again, the gameplay is so minimal and the story is so heavily focused on that it almost is trying to be an interactive Jurassic park movie, and people are paying for what they are told is a game which is slightly misleading.
Some people may say, in the words of Ian Malcolm, "that is one big pile of sh*t" but in my opinion, the admission fee of £7.47 to enter Jurassic park is worth it, for the achievements, the film references, to experience the great story, and the incredibly cinematic moments such as escaping velociraptors and a tyrannosaurus in a barely functioning helicopter.
I hope I have convinced a few people to pick up this game, because it really is a good offer on steam, and will probably have ended by tomorrow.
So thanks for reading and see you tomorrow
Ryan
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