Their health and wellbeing are your number one priority, including treating the various diseases they can catch. Nor do you need to worry about micro-construction tasks such as benches, trash cans or toilets.ĭinosaurs do have their own needs and requirements though. You can’t, for example, click on a visitor and find out what their specific needs are.
Visitors needs are all captured into a single star rating interface. Those looking for an in-depth park management simulation will find Jurassic World Evolution a bit on the thin side. And while each island does present its own unique obstacles, the main hurdle will be finding space to put down all the buildings and facilities you need. Cash balance and island ratings are unique to each island, but you otherwise share research, tech and knowledge between each island. But you still need to have researched all the dinosaurs to have access to them in the sandbox mode too. A seventh island is open as a Sandbox mode. Jurassic World Evolution features six main islands to play the campaign on. And while 48 dinosaur species sounds a lot (5 of which are only in the Deluxe Edition), you will fairly quickly run through them all. They also managed to get a hold of a bunch of the original audio from the films to enhance and repurpose for the game. Frontier have done a fantastic job of modelling each dinosaur in the game. Some of the dig sites and fossils are locked behind progression levels, so you have to wait and grind a while before you can think about rearing a T-Rex in your park.īut when you do and you finally get to release the T-Rex from your Hammond Creation Centre, you won’t be disappointed. From these you can extract DNA, and once you have built up a 50% genome, you can start to incubate dinosaurs of that breed for your park. You need to send out dig teams to unveil fossils. The Dinosaurs are the key to Jurassic World Evolution. A theme park management game… with Dinosaurs! Combined with a hot piece of IP in the Jurassic Park license, spawns Jurassic World Evolution. And I doubt you will find many people arguing that Rollercoaster Tycoon World was better than Planet Coaster.Īnd so, Frontier have managed to capitalise on the success of Planet Coaster. No, Frontier had their own game that they sneaked out at the same time.
But this one wasn’t developed by Frontier. A long-awaited sequel to the Rollercoaster Tycoon games. Atari released Rollercoaster Tycoon World. Take a step back a couple of years and we saw the resurgence of the Theme Park genre. And now, with Jurassic World Evolution we have the opportunity to play with that fiction. From the original Jurassic Park film in 1993, to this years Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the fiction has continued to grow. The notion that we could visit a place where Dinosaurs wander freely. It’s a fantasy that has now excited the best part of three generations.