Your objective assessment of the game

[Mihanick]

What is your objective assessment of Jurassic Park: The Game?
I do not agree with the assessment metacritic and I give the 8 of 10

[Lukedfrt]

I gave it a 5, as its average. And no offence but an 8 is silly. To get a rating of 8 a game must be very good in every aspect, you dont even play this you just watch it.

[RAnthonyMahan]

4. And it only even gets that much because I liked the plot.

[Sadonicus]

Gave it a 6. As a JP-Fan accepting the concept and the technological shortcomings it would be 8, as a Gamer or simply Non-JP-Fan its only a 5.

Funny how some peoples "objective" assessment is a 10. Thats really just deluded...

[waroftheworlds01]

I really hate numbered assessments. it really doesn't tell you anything. It's the words in the review that really give you a detailed view on if the game is good or not. But I guess I'll give it a 7?

[Vainamoinen]

You're right, numbered assessments don't really cut it. Also, objectivity is an illusion.

Supposedly you'd have the people voting "1" who were really disappointed with the game after building up massive expectations and waiting for so long. I would understand those people. Instead, of the present 3 people voting "1", at least two haven't ever bought or played the game to my knowledge. That's objectivity for you.

At least we can be sure that the people voting 8 or even 10 have actually spent some time with the game, which to form an "objective" opinion is a far less "silly" or "deluded" thing to do than voting something down you have never experienced.

[iliekater]

I loved this game . And I loved it for what it was . I liked those scenes and I believe that was best this way , because this gave you the possibility to be in great scenes . For example , do you remember one of the last scenes where the vet is hunted by T-Rex between , under and above some crates , just before he manages to escape to the boat ? Of course you do ! Well , in such cases it would be TOTALLY impossible to do all that stuff manually ! See ? This gameplay has some disadvantages but also some advantages on the other hand . No to mention that I didn't want to play Rambo in the park ! Jurassic park is a ... well a park ; it cannot be turned into a warzone ! If you play ant first person shooter you'll get to kill much more that the number of the dinosaurs living on JP . Therefore , I believe , this gameplay , combined with the great story , offered a very nice experience !

[Jennifer]

I haven't reviewed this on my site yet, but I too believe it deserves a solid 8.

Saying it isn't a game is silly. It is a game, just not a traditional adventure game. It's a quick time event (like Dragon's Lair or the action scenes in Shenmue) style game with some casual-adventure style exploration in between with some simple dialog puzzles and examination puzzles.

I find it quite fun to play since I enjoy the Dragon's Lair/Space Ace type games. I personally found it to be one of Telltale's better games since I didn't notice any glaring bugs like most of their 2011 games had.

I liked the new characters and I really liked the story. I liked how it connected to the first film, and I personally had always wondered what happened with the corporation who was waiting for the Barbosol can, so it was nice to see that addressed.

Bay Area Sound does an excellent job in the audio department as usual too. That's one area that you can always be sure will be top notch in any of Telltale's games.

[Lukedfrt]

Originally Posted by Jennifer

(like Dragon's Lair or the action scenes in Shenmue)

Thats what QTE are for, action scenes like in Shenmue. If the entire game is one massive QTE then it is not a game.

Shenmue has probably the best use of QTE in a game, JP over uses it in a way that makes it seem like it isn't a game.

[Jennifer]

Originally Posted by Lukedfrt

Thats what QTE are for, action scenes like in Shenmue. If the entire game is one massive QTE then it is not a game.

Shenmue has probably the best use of QTE in a game, JP over uses it in a way that makes it seem like it isn't a game.

You missed the first game I mentioned. Dragon's Lair is 100% QTE. It's a love-it or hate-it style of game play, but it's definitely a game.

[Lukedfrt]

Originally Posted by Jennifer

You missed the first game I mentioned. Dragon's Lair is 100% QTE. It's a love-it or hate-it style of game play, but it's definitely a game.

You can barely class it as a game, and even if it is classed as a game JP does a terrible job of it. You dont know when to press a button because the games framerate lags that much. Look at the scores on metacritic, the game is a mess. Oh and lets not forget about the metacritic incident where TTG made a disgrace of themselves for this game.

[iliekater]

I played the game on PC and I didn't notice any frame drops at all . OK , there might been one or two , but it had to do something with the computer itself (some activity took place ; I could notice it by the flashing led) . Maybe it was my fast computer itself , but I don't thing this game has actually any such "hard moments" to deal with ...

[Maniac536]

Objectively, I liked the game a lot. I'm a huge fan of games like heavy rain and indigo prophecy (faherenheit) and I thought the game's style, gameplay, story and puzzles were entertaining and fun.

(Played on Xbox 360)

Rated 9 out of 10 for me.

[DAISHI]

Originally Posted by Lukedfrt

Thats what QTE are for, action scenes like in Shenmue. If the entire game is one massive QTE then it is not a game.

Shenmue has probably the best use of QTE in a game, JP over uses it in a way that makes it seem like it isn't a game.

I just got done playing Space Ace, which is an all QTE game, and it's still better than most games released today.

A game is anything you play as a diversion, sometimes even without a definable goal.

[Lukedfrt]

Originally Posted by DAISHI

I just got done playing Space Ace, which is an all QTE game, and it's still better than most games released today.

A game is anything you play as a diversion, sometimes even without a definable goal.

In this day and age with the technology we have a QTE game cant be classed as a proper game.

We've moved on, look at games like Sonic. Great at one point but we have now moved on due too technology.

[Jennifer]

Originally Posted by Lukedfrt

In this day and age with the technology we have a QTE game cant be classed as a proper game.

We've moved on, look at games like Sonic. Great at one point but we have now moved on due too technology.

Not true. It's a niche market, but there's still some QTE games being made besides Jurassic Park: The Game. There's a great arcade game called The Act that was made in 2007. I actually drove up to Boston just to play the game. It's 100% QTE, and it was a lot of fun. It was hard to get game time in too, since there was a line of people waiting to play the game, and people all around the arcade machine watching people playing the game.

It was really something to see. I've never witnessed that kind of excitement in the arcades since I was too young during the arcade boom of the 1980's.

[DAISHI]

Originally Posted by Lukedfrt

In this day and age with the technology we have a QTE game cant be classed as a proper game.

We've moved on, look at games like Sonic. Great at one point but we have now moved on due too technology.

Checkers is still a game. Tic Tac Toe is still a game.

[Udvarnoky]

Originally Posted by Lukedfrt

In this day and age with the technology we have a QTE game cant be classed as a proper game.

We've moved on, look at games like Sonic. Great at one point but we have now moved on due too technology.

The arrogance of this post is so multilayered that it threatens to consume itself into a black hole from which no straight face may escape.

[Lukedfrt]

Originally Posted by Jennifer

Not true. It's a niche market, but there's still some QTE games being made besides Jurassic Park: The Game. There's a great arcade game called The Act that was made in 2007. I actually drove up to Boston just to play the game. It's 100% QTE, and it was a lot of fun. It was hard to get game time in too, since there was a line of people waiting to play the game, and people all around the arcade machine watching people playing the game.

It was really something to see. I've never witnessed that kind of excitement in the arcades since I was too young during the arcade boom of the 1980's.

Its a niche market for a reason. Some people in this thread really dont understand how poor a "game" this is, find me a positive review of it... look at the scores on Metacritic. The "game" is a waste of money and a terrible example of a QTE "game".

Originally Posted by DAISHI

Checkers is still a game. Tic Tac Toe is still a game.

I didn't realise they were on consoles?

[Jennifer]

Originally Posted by Lukedfrt

Its a niche market for a reason. Some people in this thread really dont understand how poor a "game" this is, find me a positive review of it... look at the scores on Metacritic. The "game" is a waste of money and a terrible example of a QTE "game".

Once again you skipped over part of my post. The QTE game at the arcade I went to had lines of people wanting to play it. No one who played it was disappointed that they did.

The Metacritic scores are actually in the average range - 60% out of 100%. It's only the user scores that are really low, and they are that low because a lot of people who never played the game were voting 0% just because a few Telltale employees voted 100%. Fake reviews are never a fair judge of a game's quality.