All this is well and good, but you need to do three things to ensure the growth of your park: make money, research better accommodations, and produce more dinosaurs to keep the crowds happy. You start with the bare minimum, including basic conveniences such as toilets and food stands, pavement, basic security measures such as dinosaur enclosure fencing, and two dinosaur species ready to produce. It is your task to turn this rather ordinary-looking slab of land into the most successful theme park in the world.

You start with your island of choice, complete with everything any self-respecting exotic park location would come with: trees, mountain ranges, rivers, and so on. The difference is that your attractions are huge, extinct lizards. The standard sim fare is present: build your park with adequate paths, eateries, toilets, and attractions to pull in the public. The game manages to feel familiar to other park-building sims, yet at the same time is different enough to be a little more engaging. While the game lasts, it's an intriguing and worthwhile task. Instead you're presented with a simulation which gives you the chance to build and run your own park full of dinosaurs. Thankfully, forgotten are the earlier attempts which have Jurassic Park as a shoot-the-nasty-dinosaurs snorefest. Shortly afterwards, I forgot all about my initial excitement until I recently had the chance to stealthily 'borrow' the game from a friend, who is probably cursing my name at this very moment. Upon hearing about this title on its launch date, I got quite excited about the prospect of a Jurassic Park game that might actually not suck - a lofty aspiration indeed, given the series’ past. So is the potential to make oodles of cash off it, it seems Jurassic Park is guilty of squeezing every last possible penny out of its popularity, appearing in literature, the silver screen and, yes, video games. Let's face it: we all got caught in the hype the possibility of one of them chewing someone's face off is just to irresistable to pass up.

The attraction of the Jurassic Park franchise has always lain in the dinosaurs.

While the game lasts, it's an intriguing and worthwhile task.'

'Thankfully, forgotten are the earlier attempts which have Jurassic Park as a shoot-the-nasty-dinosaurs snorefest. Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (Xbox) review

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