I hope I’m wrong, because if Jurassic World Evolution is good, I will play it from now until the next worldwide extinction event. Maybe Universal saw what Frontier did with Planet Coaster and asked it to make the best Jurassic World park builder it could without much in the way of input. On the other hand, maybe I’m wrong to worry. If Warner Bros can’t resist putting microtransactions in Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, I’m not putting it past Universal either. After all, it’s clear that Jurassic Park makes Universal a ton of money, so the temptation is almost certainly there to do all sorts of consumer unfriendly things to make as much cash as possible from Jurassic World Evolution.
GAMEPLAY OF JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION PC PC
Planet Coaster has received a lot of love from the PC crowd, but the difference here could prove to be Universal. At the moment 68 of 351 opinions are positive. In addition, the first player ratings have also appeared on Steam. The good news is that Frontier, the developer behind Planet Coaster, is heading up this new game. Jurassic World Evolution 2 met with warm reception among reviewers - the average rating of the PC version on Metacritic is at the moment 81. At this early stage, with just a teaser trailer to go on, I’m worried that Jurassic World Evolution might turn out to be the same thing: a single-player game that’s packed with microtransactions and doesn’t value my time or the fact that I paid retail price for it up front. We’re living in a time now where microtransactions in single-player games are a legitimate concern for some gamers. That’s what has me worried about Jurassic World Evolution. Jurassic Park Builder for mobile comes to mind – what starts out as a promising mobile game in vein of Operation Genesis quickly turns into a cash grab that wants me to pay for everything and link to Facebook before I can even visit other parks.
The problem is that I’ve been burned in the past by games that seem to offer the same type of gameplay as my dear Operation Genesis. The entire time, I’ve been dreaming of a follow up, which is precisely what Jurassic World Evolution seems to be. I still play it to this day, although here in 2017 I’ve graduated to the PC version, which has been modded so much that it has little in common with the game that released 14 years ago. Even if you did work out the perfect ratios for your park, you were still limited in how many structures you could build or how many fossil sites you could excavate, making it very difficult to fill your entire island with dinosaurs and attractions.ĭespite its limitations, it still became a favorite game of mine instantly. So, if you were trying to operate a park that had as many dinosaur species as possible, you weren’t always able to have herds of herbivores living among your fearsome carnivores at the same time. For instance, you could only have have 60 total dinosaurs in your park, despite the fact that there were 25 different species to pick from.