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this game rocks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: April 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is cool because you can breed different dinosaurs and take pictures of different dinosaurs in a lookout.You can also build different structures.

Bad Experience with this purchase

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 24
Date: September 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off...this game was for the pc when we thought it was for the Sony Playstation 2; then after trying to load it onto the computer, it wouldn't work. After calling the tech support number given in the instruction booklet, we found that the distributor of the game no longer gave tech support for this particular game, and gave us no other avenue to pursue to resolve the problem. We are at a loss as to what to do now, and truly would like a refund of our purchase price for the game...Is there any way that we can get this done through Amazon or the originator of the game?

It's not that fantastic

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: January 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

2 1/2 stars... I love Jurassic Park and was excited about playing a video game based on it that wasn't a shoot 'em up. But I was dissapointed and bored by this overall. Too much violence is necessary (they really should have made a play-mode for those of us who don't like slaughtering dinosaurs), you're very limited in the things you get to do in the game, you have to focus too much on selling food and appeasing your annoying tourists, you have to treat the dinosaurs like commodities, it doesn't really go anywhere, it gets boring, it loses its charm.

I'm so glad I didn't buy this game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 18
Date: April 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was going to buy this game after seeing some awesome screenshots and reading UI's extended description of the game, but as a last-minute decision I decided to download and play the demo for it first.
I am very glad I did.
There is one major flaw with this game that I simply could not deal with:

You cannot zoom out far enough!

There is a zoom control that can take you up close to view areas of your park in close detail or it can take you high above your park to view things from a distance.
The problem is that it doesn't take you high enough.
This forces you to hover a small distance above the trees, giving you the ability to see only a small portion of your park at a time.
I don't know how the designers/testers failed to recognize this as a major flaw.

Other things I noticed (while trying to live with the zoom) were unnatural feeling controls (controls that take getting used to and really don't seem very logical) and a mouse cursor that behaves strangely .. it moves slightly out of sink with your hand movement or something (I couldn't quite put my finger on it).

So, in conclusion, this game is not worth buying .. if someone gives you the game for free, try to get used to it's flaws and have fun with some of the pretty cool stuff it has to offer.

Not Too Bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well, to start off with, for the most part,this is an excellent game. The dinosaurs and the enviroment are very life like. The interaction between the dinosaurs is also very realistic. However, the game is very limiting in what you can do. Everything that you can purchase is limited in number. For example, the fence pieces that you build the exhibits with, you are limited to 500 pieces. I only filled up half the island with exhibits, and I was prohibited from putting any more fence pieces down because I had"exceeded" the limit. Also once you beat all the missions, you unlock site B where you can create an island free of fences, visitors, etc. I had this idea I could create this great enviroment of many dinosaurs uinteracting naturally. However, you are limited to 60 dinosaurs. Now, I know that may seem like alot, but on a huge island enviroment, it is not very many. Other then the limits they impose on your ability to build your park, which are very frustrating to work around, this is a very good game, alittle too easy,but still a good game.

jpog review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

not really a game u can just pick up and start playing as far as park builders go its got a lot of interesting things the site b was a fun little twist but after a while it just became a bore watching the herbs simply wander around on one side while t-rex and his buddies killed each other on the other the controls were a bit sluggish and god forbid you have a rampage without the turrets in place but with all the bad there was an equal amount of good solid game play definitly a good choice for park builders and sims lovers alike 4 out of 5 on gameplay 5 out of 5 for graphics and 3 out of 5 for overall playability

Fun game, but maybe a little too easy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 67 / 69
Date: March 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Operation Genesis is an economic sim where you create your own dinosaur park, but a few real-time elements breathe some new life into the genre. Think of it as a game of Theme Park, where the main attractions can kill you.

You start off the game on your own custom island, researching DNA, building exhibits, and of course constructing huge fences to keep the dinosaurs contained. As your research progresses, you are able to create bigger and badder dinosaurs that generate additional customer interest. Of course this raises the danger level as well. To provide research material, you hire teams of archaeologists to dig up bones and amber. As more material is collected and researched, the DNA of each dinosaur becomes more complete and the dinosaurs live longer as a result.

I think the developers struck a nice balance of keeping the money management focused mainly on dinosaur research and less on the park itself so it doesn't turn into yet another economic sim. You do have to monitor some areas like food and park cleanliness, but that's about it. The majority of money is spent developing dinosaurs and their needs. For instance, the dinosaurs need to be vaccinated to prevent a number of diseases that can afflict the animals. Once the vaccines are developed, you need to build a helicopter station so they can be shot with the vaccine (or shot period if they go nuts and start attacking everything.) You can't spend the entire time focused only on the dinosaurs, though. You also need to spend time researching new and better exhibits, such as balloon rides, viewing towers, and the ever-popular jungle safari tours in the woefully inadequate Nissan pickups, so the customers can see the dinosaurs better and improve your park rating.

As the research improves and new technologies are developed, you get an email telling you everything, and I mean everything that happens. This starts to get a little annoying after a while as many of the "common sense" decisions could be delegated. It would have been nice to be able to adjust the settings so certain decisions, like reviving a sick dinosaur or selling fully researched DNA material, could be made automatically. Every so often, a little real-time gameplay comes into action. For instance, a dinosaur might trash one of the pickups, leaving the survivors stranded and it's up to you to fly a helicopter overhead and rescue them before they get trampled on or eaten. Or, if you like, you can jump on one of the balloons or pickups to take some pictures of the dinosaurs. If your photography skills are good enough, they might get published and you'll make a little extra cash as a result.

One of the best features of the game is simply watching the behavior of the dinosaurs as they interact with one another. Certain dinosaurs tend to get along, others don't. As you introduce new and different dinosaurs, the dynamics of the park change. When my park started off with all herbivores, they would wander all over the place. Once I introduced some carnivores, especially my bad-boy T-Rex, they tended to become much more territorial. Plus my normally docile triceritops would start freaking out and trash any nearby pickups, much to the chagrin of the customers. Other dinosaurs would get so stressed, they'd simply keel over and die. Some of the behaviors are a little buggy, they like pushing each other around while they're sleeping, for instance. But for the most part they do seem to have individual personality and it adds a lot to the game.

There are some minor gripes, such as being forced to used certain functions with a keyboard even though the entire game could have been mouse driven. My main gripe, though, is that it's a little too easy. I'm no expert in these types of games, but even in my first game, I easily created a money making machine with every exhibit and every dinosaur researched in spite of numerous mistakes that I wouldn't make my second time around. There's really not much involved in keeping the park maintained or the customers happy. It didn't seem like it made much difference to the customers whether I had a few or a lot of dinosaurs. In fact, it seems like the less dinosaurs you have, the easier it is to play. Having said that, I was feeling pretty smug about my park when a huge twister ripped through destroying everything in its path. I was having so much fun watching the devastation that I forgot to declare a state of emergency. Let's just say that the few customers that lived probably won't return anytime soon.

So should you buy it? If you're looking for a complex economic sim, you'll probably be happier with Sim City 4. It's also graphics-intensive, so it'll struggle on standard video cards, but anyone with a Geforce or Radeon will be able to play it. Aside from that, you really do get the "virtual" thrill of building and managing your very own dinosaur park. Hope the review helped.

Bad timing and previously average Jurassic Park games kept this from being a hit.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game pretty much came out after the Jurassic Park boom had passed. Added to the fact that there were previous Jurassic Park games that were not as good probably caused many people to overlook this game. Had this game come out at the peak of the movies and before other Jurassic Park games it would have been a huge hit. Easily the best Jurassic Park game that nobody played. Actually many never even heard of the game because it came out late in the Jurassic Park boom and subsequently not a lot of money was spent on publicity.

Why I like this game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Even though I've only got the demo I realy like this game. I like it because the graphics are superb,the dinosaures are so realistic and there is a wide range of species. My favourite part of the game is the photo taking mission. My heart races as I try to get a good shot without getting crushed by the meateaters.

really cool, boring later

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

jp is a good game you have missions and exersises and you can create your own park

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