Keith
12-08-2007, 01:49 PM
You must like dinosaurs to some extent othewise why are you hanging out here? ;)
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park:_Operation_Genesis)
Anyway, there is a game out that is now several years old and may be hard to find, but it's based on the Jurassic Park movie. In the game you build your own Jurassic Park and stock it with one of the dozen or more types of dinosaurs to put inside the display pens. The object is to run a financially successful theme park. If you have ever played Zoo Tycoon, this is a similar idea...except with dinosaurs (including the Camarasaurus.)
In game you have to put in observation towers, benchs, food shops, souvenier shops, washrooms, security cameras, protective fencing, even a poupup gun incase the unthinkable happens and the dinsaurs get out. There is a park ranger helicopiter that is use to fly over the holding pens to immunize and cure dinos with darts. Or to shoot from if the carnivors break out. You have to feed your dinos too, you can plant ancient forms of plantlife or modern plants that the dinos may or may not like or you can put in a automatic feeder that will either dispense a bail of plant matter in the case of planteaters or it can be set to dispense a goat or cow for the meat eaters.
Visitors to your park will leave happy or unhappy which all effects your overall rating and higher ratings let you build more things and you get more visitors. You set the park fee for the admission to the park, and the various venues.
You can setup a viewing dome inside a holding pen and then switch to a first person mode and watch the dinosaurs at close range or view them through binoaculars on the view towers near the pens that you setup.
There is a ballon ride that you have float over your dino pens and see things in the first person mode from there and even take snapshots form the basket. You can then "sell" these snapshots to make money for your park whcih you can then spend on researching more dino types, buying bones to extract DNA from or developing more park features.
Not everything is going to go smoothly, an occasional tornado will come through and knock down fences and kill dinos and people if they get caught out in the open. Having a guest killed in your park is really bad karma and drastically effects the visitor rate. You can build a protective dome for visitors to run to when you spot a storm approaching and sound the alarm horn.
The game will also let you do some challenges where you have to drive a park vehicle out and get snapshots of various types of dinosaurs without getting killed in the process or ride in the helicopter to irradicate some dinos that have broken out, etc.
You can even create your own island and terrain with a easy to use editor. I made an island where I just developed dinos and let them run free to interact with each other. Meat eaters stalking and attacking their prey or the hug sauropods lumbering about browsing treetops and basking in the lake, river or in the water around the island.
The game was put out by Universal Interactive, which was part of the Vivendi Entertainment empire that also bought the SIerra Entertainment computer game company. The game is no longer offered in the company store but you may find a copy out there somewhere.
Here's a short video (http://ftp.sierra.com/ui/jurassic_park/videos/ui_jurassicpark_trailer_300K.wmv) trailer about the game.
Gamespot review
(http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/jurassicparkoperationgenesis/review.html).
PS2 (http://forums.pleoworld.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=10) game version.
XBOX (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/j/jurassicparkoperationgenesis/) game version.
PC (http://www.amazon.com/Vivendi-Universal-Jurassic-Park-Operation/dp/B00006662V/ref=pd_sim_vg_title_2) game version.
YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOlNhONZYpc) of someone doing one of the game challenges with the park vehicle...a rescue mission.
YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-i_o1eGvEY&feature=related) teaser made by game player. (More videos on YouTube.)
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park:_Operation_Genesis)
Anyway, there is a game out that is now several years old and may be hard to find, but it's based on the Jurassic Park movie. In the game you build your own Jurassic Park and stock it with one of the dozen or more types of dinosaurs to put inside the display pens. The object is to run a financially successful theme park. If you have ever played Zoo Tycoon, this is a similar idea...except with dinosaurs (including the Camarasaurus.)
In game you have to put in observation towers, benchs, food shops, souvenier shops, washrooms, security cameras, protective fencing, even a poupup gun incase the unthinkable happens and the dinsaurs get out. There is a park ranger helicopiter that is use to fly over the holding pens to immunize and cure dinos with darts. Or to shoot from if the carnivors break out. You have to feed your dinos too, you can plant ancient forms of plantlife or modern plants that the dinos may or may not like or you can put in a automatic feeder that will either dispense a bail of plant matter in the case of planteaters or it can be set to dispense a goat or cow for the meat eaters.
Visitors to your park will leave happy or unhappy which all effects your overall rating and higher ratings let you build more things and you get more visitors. You set the park fee for the admission to the park, and the various venues.
You can setup a viewing dome inside a holding pen and then switch to a first person mode and watch the dinosaurs at close range or view them through binoaculars on the view towers near the pens that you setup.
There is a ballon ride that you have float over your dino pens and see things in the first person mode from there and even take snapshots form the basket. You can then "sell" these snapshots to make money for your park whcih you can then spend on researching more dino types, buying bones to extract DNA from or developing more park features.
Not everything is going to go smoothly, an occasional tornado will come through and knock down fences and kill dinos and people if they get caught out in the open. Having a guest killed in your park is really bad karma and drastically effects the visitor rate. You can build a protective dome for visitors to run to when you spot a storm approaching and sound the alarm horn.
The game will also let you do some challenges where you have to drive a park vehicle out and get snapshots of various types of dinosaurs without getting killed in the process or ride in the helicopter to irradicate some dinos that have broken out, etc.
You can even create your own island and terrain with a easy to use editor. I made an island where I just developed dinos and let them run free to interact with each other. Meat eaters stalking and attacking their prey or the hug sauropods lumbering about browsing treetops and basking in the lake, river or in the water around the island.
The game was put out by Universal Interactive, which was part of the Vivendi Entertainment empire that also bought the SIerra Entertainment computer game company. The game is no longer offered in the company store but you may find a copy out there somewhere.
Here's a short video (http://ftp.sierra.com/ui/jurassic_park/videos/ui_jurassicpark_trailer_300K.wmv) trailer about the game.
Gamespot review
(http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/jurassicparkoperationgenesis/review.html).
PS2 (http://forums.pleoworld.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=10) game version.
XBOX (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/j/jurassicparkoperationgenesis/) game version.
PC (http://www.amazon.com/Vivendi-Universal-Jurassic-Park-Operation/dp/B00006662V/ref=pd_sim_vg_title_2) game version.
YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOlNhONZYpc) of someone doing one of the game challenges with the park vehicle...a rescue mission.
YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-i_o1eGvEY&feature=related) teaser made by game player. (More videos on YouTube.)