August 5, 2012

Jurassic Park The Game: Episode 1

Mr. T at his best.
Date played: August 5th
Platform: PC
Session fun rating: 5/10

I recently bought the Blu-Ray Jurassic Park box set and to my surprise, it came with a free code for the first episode of Telltale's Jurassic Park adventure game. It's set both during and after the events of the first movie. There is a latino woman that was hired as a "plan B" should Dennis Nedry fail to bring back the stolen embryo's. As any self respecting fan of the movie knows, Nedry fails and is eaten by a dilophosaurus, leaving behind the valuable can of shaving cream.

The game is kind of like The Walking Dead but buggier and without the cool decision making. This leaves the game as a giant quick time event that is actually pretty boring to play. I was interested by the story but it wasn't enough to get me to spend more money for the remaining three episodes. There are some cool scenes in there though, like a fight between a T-Rex and a Triceratops and a game of hide and seek with the big carnivore.