Jurassic World: The Game has been released early in Australia this past week and fans lucky enough to live in that region have had the opportunity to test the game out before the rest of us over here in North America and the UK. From what we've seen so far, the game is very much like the previously successful Jurassic Park: Builder game for mobile devices. Like JP Builder, Jurassic World: The Game is an exclusively mobile title, currently available to iOS phones and tablets, however Android versions are on the way! The first trailer for the game has been released, which you can see here:
While we wait for the game to become available over here, the folks at JPLegacy have written up a very detailed first-impressions review of the game, listing off gameplay quality, sound quality, covering playable characters, Dinosaurs and much more! Here's an excerpt:
Jurassic World the Game is the movie tie-in/spiritual successor to Jurassic Park Builder, created by Ludia. Set on the luscious island of Isla Nublar. Like it’s predecessor, The objective of the game is simple. Create Dinosaurs, Challenge opponents in the Arena, Create your very own Jurassic World. Currently this game is exclusive to Mobile devices and looks to stay that way.
Ive only had hands on with the game for the last few hours, being available in Australia first, I will give a brief run down of what the game is about, the features, graphics and sound, List of species etc in the below Paragraphs.
Graphics and Sound
Overall the game is beautiful, Jurassic World has had a massive update graphically. The Dinosaurs are heavily detailed as is the Island and park building itself. Interesting enough the Island is actually shaped like Isla Nublar and is incredibly detailed for a mobile platform game. Some features include, Mountains, Streams, the current Jurassic World Visitor Area/center, an animated monorail display and for the hard core fans the Old Visitors centre in ruins up the top left corner of the Map. The music is reminiscent of Jurassic Park Builder and the Jurassic park franchise as a whole and would not surprise me if it is actually some of the sound material used within the movie itself. The sounds of the Dinosaurs leave a little more to be desired just like JPB the same generic Dinosaur sounds are used for all the species, Majungasaurus for example a new species to the game uses a lower toned bellow of a Tyrannosaur. Overall this does not take away from the experience of the game and personally has not bothered me thus far.
Gameplay
Gameplay is very similar to Jurassic Park Builder. The difference this time is that the unlocking of Dinosaurs is based heavily around advancing in the Arena. The game starts with a cinematic, a helicopter flying over Nublar with an animal cargo attached to it. It is dropped in the Arena and revealed as Majungasaur. Then it is up to you with your Faithful Triceratops to defeat the carnivore in the battle, after a small tutorial, defeating the animal unlocks it for purchase with the use of Dinosaur DNA points. This is a new currency introduced into the game used to search for additional animals after obtaining them in battle or Mystery packs ( I will explain them shortly). Food, Coins and Dinobucks make their return in the game, the only difference being with food not separated into Meat and Plants like the previous game. I feel this is a better option for the game as it was quite frustrating spending resources on upgrading both farms in the previous one when it could have been simplified with one. This will be further explained to you once you delve into the game during the feeding of the Dinosaurs. One of the animals is displayed in the enclosures at any given time but you can have up to 12 of each species in the exhibit. Leveling and evolving the Dinosaurs is relatively the same, with the exception of evolution. You must have two of the same Dinosaurs at the highest level in order to evolve one of them to the next level, the latter being sacrificed for the evolution. Each level of evolution has different colourations allowing you to switch between the colour displayed on the main gameplay screen.
Be sure to read their full write-up here and let us know what you think of the game so far if you've managed to score yourself a copy early as well!
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