A new Jurassic Park game looks like it’s finally going to do justice to the original movie, with thankfully no sign of Chris Pratt.
The global conspiracy about preventing dinosaurs from appearing in video games is one we will never understand. Capcom do what they can, short of making an actual new Dino Crisis game, but otherwise we’re left picking over the crumbs, with games like Ark: Survival Evolved and 30 years of mediocre Jurassic Park tie-ins.
The recent Jurassic World Evolution management sims have been pretty good but there’s never really been a quality action game; so we’re really hoping that Jurassic Park: Survival will be different.
The trailer below appeared without warning during The Game Awards and even though the majority of it is pre-rendered, it does seem to understand the full potential of a first person Jurassic Park game.
The game casts you as new character Dr Maya Joshi, an InGen scientist who gets left behind on Isla Nublar during the events of the first film – which is not a dissimilar set-up to Telltale Games’ disappointing attempt at a tie-in.
It’s not clear whether it’s supposed to be a survival game in the traditional sense, but the official website talks about using ‘your ingenuity through distraction and stealth’ and utilising ‘all the resources at your disposal to find intelligent solutions to endure the many threats.’
It’s clearly not a shooter, but while the pre-rendered part of the trailer just tries to recreate sequences from the film, such as the hide and seek in the kitchen and the first T-Rex encounter, the few seconds of gameplay at the end do promise plenty of unique set pieces.
There are certainly a lot of questions though, not least who is making the game. The trailer and website feature the Saber Interactive logo, but they have over a dozen subsidiaries that include everyone from Pinball FX maker Zen Studios to Metro Exodus developer 4A Games.
As long as the game is good it doesn’t matter but we’d hate to get all excited like this and find out that the trailer was the best part. As has happened with so many of the movie sequels.
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