Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (2003)
Genres:Strategy, Simulator
Themes:Action, Science fiction, Sandbox, Educational
Game modes:Single player
Story:Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is a construction and management simulation video game for the PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 based on the Jurassic Park series.
The main point of the game is to recreate Jurassic Park - building a five-star theme park with dinosaurs, and turning John Hammond's dream into reality. In the park, the player builds paths, amenities for visitors such as food, restrooms, enclosures, and attractions. One must also keep the park safe and secure.
The park can be populated with up to sixty dinosaurs, with twenty-five different species available from the three Jurassic Park films. The player can also add attractions similar to those seen in the films, such as the safari seen in the Jurassic Park film, and additional attractions such as a balloon tour and several varieties of viewing platform.
While the PlayStation 2 version is fairly common, the PC and Xbox versions of the game are considerably rare, with the Xbox version considered one of the rarest and most expensive titles for the system, with copies of the game often selling on eBay for upwards of $100.
GAMEPLAY:
The player's main objective is to create a theme park/zoo featuring dinosaurs, make it popular, and make it safe with a 5-star rating. Gameplay functions are very similar to the SimCity and Tycoon game models. It is necessary to build feeding stations where herbivores can get bales of plant feed, while carnivores are fed live cows or goats. However, herbivores become unhappy if they don't have enough trees around them or enough nearby dinosaurs to socialize with. Likewise, carnivores have an innate desire to hunt other dinosaurs, so even a constant stream of livestock will not keep them happy.
To create a dinosaur, fifty percent (50%) of the particular dinosaur's DNA is needed. The higher the percentage of DNA, the longer that dinosaur will live, unless it dies by means other than natural causes, such as malnutrition or being attacked by another dinosaur. To obtain a dinosaur's DNA, the player must extract it through fossils or amber. Higher quality specimens will yield more DNA.
To obtain fossils and amber, the player must send a fossil-hunting team to dig in one of nine dig sites around the world. Additional dig teams can be purchased later in the game. Each dig site contains fossils from three particular dinosaurs. Fossils of some dinosaurs, such as Brachiosaurus, can be found in more than one dig site. The chance of finding fossils depends on the quality of the site. There are 6 classifications on the quality of a dig site, ranging from "excellent" to "exhausted." It is still possible to find fossils and amber at sites that have been exhausted, although they are often of low quality with little DNA to provide. Valuable items such as silver, gold, or opal are also discovered infrequently by the dig team(s), and can be sold for profit.
Attractions help make the park popular, and increase its rating power and income when correctly configured. Attractions must be researched before they can be constructed, and include the Balloon Tour, Safari Adventure and Viewing Dome. Viewing Vents and Viewing Platforms do not need to be researched. The Safari Tour and Balloon Tour attractions allow for the player to "take over" the ride for the purpose of park exploration and photography, but only when a visitor in the game is using it. The player may also observe the dinosaurs from the Viewing Dome, Viewing Vent, and Viewing Platform by selecting the "View" option after clicking on the building.
Amenities such as restrooms and restaurants are needed for visitors. Additional buildings such as a gift shop and a resting area must be researched before the player can add them into the park. Vaccines for diseases–such as tick infestation, gastric poisoning, rabies, and the fictional Dino Flu–must be researched before a sick dinosaur can be treated for a particular illness.
DINOSAURS:
There are a total of 25 dinosaurs featured in the game, some of which were featured in the films. They are divided into four main sub-groups. Small Herbivores such as Gallimimus and Pachycephalosaurus are easy to care for and do not take up much space, but are not as popular with guests. Large Herbivores such as Brachiosaurus and Triceratops are very popular with visitors and do not require expensive fences, but need large spacious exhibits.
Small Carnivores such as Dilophosaurus and Velociraptor do not generally need vigorous security as their larger counterparts, but can still harm guests if they escape. Large Carnivores such as Tyrannosaurus and Spinosaurus are the most popular dinosaurs in the game, but require large exhibits with high security fences and are prone to rampaging when stressed.
MISSIONS:
The game has 10 missions the player can complete. In some websites like IGN and GameSpot, early previews indicated that there were originally to be 12 missions. There are about three or four general types of missions, including taking photographs of dinosaurs to try to rack up a certain amount of points from the photos in a safari mission and dinosaur control missions where the player has to retire the carnivores (preferably large ones) to protect the herbivores.
SITE B:
After all the missions are completed, the "Site B" mode is unlocked, which allows the player to create an island without any fences or buildings for people, similar to Isla Sorna in The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. Visitors are not allowed on the island. The player can place up to eight hatcheries and create up to sixty dinosaurs, which live on the island without diseases or the possibility of becoming stressed. As long as they have food, water and living space, the player can simply watch the dinosaurs interact and live out their lives.
FAN MODIFICATIONS:
Because of the PC version's modular file structure, the game is very easy to modify with nothing more than a regular text editor. It is possible to create almost completely new missions, exercises, dinosaurs, dinosaur designs, new visitor appearances, and play options. The Indominus rex, a genetic hybrid dinosaur from Jurassic World, was made available in June 2015.
Thanks to the open ended design, a small community of fans have come together to improve realism, unlock unreleased features, and design new features to be included. A group of people have formed the Community Expansion Project and the Genesis Expansion Project, which takes previous modifications and designs new ones for release in a patch for the overall community.
The team's main aim is to recreate the dinosaurs to be as realistic as possible, mainly expanding and creating new behavior. Two other modification sets, the Film-Canon Mod (FCM) and Novel-Canon Mod (NCM), are from Jurassic Park fansite, JPLegacy.org. The NCM includes dinosaur designs and islands based on the Jurassic Park novels. The FCM includes film-based dinosaur designs, music, sounds, and islands. Since the release of the first expansions, many others have appeared, with increased sophistication to make the game more realistic.Show more
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Beyond the game's incredible history, no one can deny how visceral and authentic it was to the Jurassic Park mythos. The dinosaurs, characters and gameplay all combined to create an unforgettable and unadulterated Jurassic Park experience. JPOG was, more than anything, a labor of love by the developers at Blue Tongue Entertainment.
When I was younger. All I could ever do was dream about this game. I didn't own a PC and finding a physical copy of the game was completely out of the question. I wish I got to experience it even now as an adult
This is a game that I will never get tired of. Back in the day I would watch countless YouTube videos like carnivore island that would use this game. I remember playing this on my Xbox, PS2, and eventually down the road, PC. Jurassic park is my second favorite movie of all time and this game is in my top 5. Yes, we have Jurassic world evolution but there’s a certain charm about this game that those don’t capture. I know you can download a free copy of this game online but honestly, I’d like to be able to have an official copy to play and have for all time.
This game was the pinnacle of sims back in the early 2000s. Fantastic movie tie-in, tons of great details, and everything you could possibly want to do in a jurassic park themed game, including, building the park on your terms, driving the tour car off the beaten path and into the paddocks, and lest we forget, it's not Jurassic Park unless the Dinos get out! (or at least that's the only take away the Hollywood exec's took from the first movie, never mind a masterpiece about science, control, huburis, and life ah, finding a way...)
my favorite childhood game, 100% would kill for a remaster or maybe new content both official and modded into the game, would sit down at the pc for hours playing this and I adore it
i don't think i need to say much about this one but this is the greatest Jurassic Park game ever made and i remember making my park and creating the dinosaurs and then letting the dinosaurs lose in the park and attack the guests and making sure no one escapes this would be great to see make a come back
Honestly, this game is mediocore. But I really loved it when I was a kid. I loved dinosaurs, I loved Jurassic Park trilogy, and I loved zoo simulators. And honestly? I still love all of this things. Alsom this game have suprisingly active modding scene, so even if the ,,vanilla" is mediocore, you can easily fix this with additional dinosaurs and other stuff.
This is one of if not the best jurassic park game ever made. I remember playing this game as a kid and just watching the dinosaurs be dinosaurs. The Dino A.I is some of the best I've ever seen. To add on top of that this game had youtube series about it when youtube started with certain dinosaurs even being characters for example there were two modded T Rexes and they were named Crusher and The Queen and they had entire stories and Crusher even got a mod for Evolution. I want this game on GOG because it will give me and many others the opportunity to play this game again without having to go to a sketchy website to get it or pay for a physical copy on ebay that are really expensive even for a white label copy.
Played this as a kid on my ps2, bought it from a friend for 50nok, played it so much i could Talk over the intro by memory, as an adult i bought it on cd for about 100usd, the game is still one of my favoritt games of all time, would love the be able to own it and not have to use the cd all the time, and it would be amazing to see gog give this game some love.
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