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Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis

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Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis<tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center;"></td></tr>
Developer(s) Blue Tongue Entertainment

<tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Publisher(s)</th><td>Vivendi Universal</td></tr><tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Engine</th><td>TOSHI</td></tr>

Release date(s) March 11, 2003
Genre(s) Simulation
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer

<tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Rating(s)</th><td>ESRB: Teen</td></tr>

Platform(s) PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is a video game for the PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 based on the novel and film series Jurassic Park.

Contents

[edit] Overview

The main point of the game is to recreate Jurassic Park - building a 5 star theme park with dinosaurs, and turning John Hammond's dream into a reality. In the park, the player builds paths, amenities for food and toiletries, and security measures such as ranger stations or cameras. Fossil hunters are sent to one of nine dig sites where they find bones or amber, from which the player can extract a certain amount of DNA from a particular species of dinosaur (each dig site features three species of dinosaur, and some species appear at more than one site). 50% of the creature's DNA code strand is needed to breed a dinosaur, and the more complete the DNA strand is, the longer the dinosaur will live. Up to 25 different kinds of dinosaurs can be used, and the player can also add attractions similar to those seen in the real movie such as a Safari Ride. (The cars look just like the ones in the movie.)

[edit] Dinosaurs

[edit] Species

The dinosaurs in the game are divided into four categories: Small Herbivores, Large Herbivores, Small Carnivores and Large Carnivores. Each dinosaur also has a star rating out of 5, based on their popularity with the virtual visitors. The game features most of the dinosaurs featured in the three films, as well as some additional species:

In addition there were many unused dinosaurs, including Alioramus, Deinonychus, Baryonyx, Ornithomimus, Yangchuanosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Iguanodon, Maiasaura, Panoplosaurus, Thescelosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Wuerhosaurus, and Chasmosaurus. There were also other features and buildings planned, such as a Hunting Platform, a Dino Vet Depot, a visitors' hotel, the ability to position fences diagonally, and the ability to use drugs to modify your dinosaur's behavior.

[edit] Behavior

Aside from basic behavior (hunting/grazing when hungry, panicking when seeing predators) shared by all creatures, some behaviors are typical for (but not limited to) dinosaurs specific to one of the four categories. Most but not all herbivores typically stick together to form herds, while most carnivores (the most notable exception being Velociraptor) are solitary creatures.

  • Large Carnivores (and Velociraptor) express an immediate need to hunt when they are released from the Hatchery, and will rampage when stressed. Rampaging large carnivores will kill anything in their way and also break through fences before eventually falling into a coma. They are also highly territorial (Acrocanthosaurus and Allosaurus to a lesser degree, Velociraptor is not territorial at all) and will greet any other large predator with intimidating roars, sometimes even fighting to the death. Most large carnivores require high security and often attack jeeps touring the enclosures. They all have 4 or 5 star ratings.
  • Small Carnivores (except Velociraptor) do not need to hunt right after being released from the Hatchery. Most of them are afraid of large herbivores such as Brachiosaurus. When stressed, small carnivores will fall into a coma (except Velociraptor, which will rampage before that). Small carnivores require low or medium security and generally have 2-3 star ratings (except Velociraptor, which has 5 stars).
  • Some Large Herbivores (Triceratops, Ankylosaurus and Stegosaurus) will defend themselves using their horns, spikes or tail clubs, injuring any predator that strays too close. When stressed, they fall into a coma. Torosaurus is the only large herbivore which is territorial; the creatures often lock horns in power struggles (this is probably an homage to an episode of the famous series Walking With Dinosaurs in which two Torosaurus locked horns when fighting). All large herbivores require low security, except Triceratops, which needs medium security because it sometimes attacks safari jeeps. Large herbivores have ratings of 3 to 5 stars.
  • Small Herbivores are the lowest-rated dinosaurs, usually having 2-3 stars (the small herbivore Dryosaurus is the only creature in the game with a 1 star rating). They are generally harmless creatures; all of them require only low security. Pachycephalosaurus is the most aggressive and the only small herbivore to occasionally retaliate against predators, knocking them down with its thickened skull. It is also the only territorial one; they often literally butt heads with each other. For some reason Kentrosaurus is afraid of some large herbivores (in addition to carnivores). Except for Pachycephalosaurus and Styracosaurus it is the only small herbivore which can hurt predators, which injure themselves on its shoulder spikes when attacking. Small herbivores lapse into a coma when stressed.

[edit] Visitors

[edit] Types

Like the dinosaurs, visitors are divided into four categories: Mainstream, Thrill Seekers, Fun Lovers and Dino Nerds.

  • Mainstream, the general audience, are easy to please and simply want to see dinosaurs.
  • Thrill Seekers like to see carnivores and herbivores fighting.
  • Fun Lovers like to see herbivores playing.
  • Dino Nerds want to see authenticity- they like dinosaurs from similar timezones and areas to be placed in the same enclosures, and are also impressed when prehistoric trees are placed in the enclosures.

[edit] Behavior

Visitors will want to see dinosaurs and also find something to eat and drink in kiosks. They will also need to use the toilet frequently, and rest in special Rest Areas. Visitors will become frustrated when these luxuries are not around, and also get irritated during storms when there are no umbrellas available (the Weather Guard, a research item, can provide umbrellas). They will also rate the park security; the security rating will drop when visitors see damaged buildings or loose carnivores (herbivores don't seem to frighten them), and it will rise when a Ranger Station is built. Dinosaur attacks on safari Land Cruisers cause a dramatic drop in security ratings.

[edit] Missions and Site B

The game also has 10 missions the player can complete - they feature taking photographs of dinosaurs, darting a number of dangerous dinosaurs within a time limit, and guiding herbivorous dinosaurs into a certain area. After all 10 are completed, a Site B option unlocks which allows the player to build an island without any fences or people, and simply release and watch dinosaurs.

[edit] PC version

Thanks to the PC version's modular file structure, the game is very easy to modify with nothing more than a regular text editor. It is possible to create almost completely new missions and exercises as well. Thanks to this open ended design, a small community of fans have come together to work to improve realism, unlock unreleased features, and design new things to be included. A group of people have formed the Community Expansion Team, which takes previous modifications and designs new ones for release in a patch for the overall community. Some plans for future expansion include new dinosaurs and buildings, when the proprietary model and texture formats used for the game are made editable.

Some unreleased features were Hunting Platforms, Vet Depots, and various ranger weapons.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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