Jurassic World: The Game

Jurassic World The Game is a 2015 phone app made by Ludia and Jam City. It was created to promote the (at the time) upcoming movie Jurassic World. It is still active to this day.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It isn't even pay-to-win. It is pay-to-play. This game is oozing with microtransactions and will try anything it can to suck the money out of your wallet. Sometimes, you need to pay prices up to $100 to get a single specimen of one creature. Also, the in-app purchases are generally obscenely overpriced. A legendary card pack costs up to $50 or $49.99. That's literally the price of a video game (except you can actually get and keep something from a video game). Why would you spend $100 on something you can't even keep?
 * 2) *Common creatures, being easy to get, for some reason cost around $7.99 ($8 rounded up) to buy directly.
 * 3) *Similarly to Dragon City, as soon as you open up the game, it will bombard you with opportunities to buy from it's in-game store.
 * 4) Extremely poor grasp of the source material. Last time we checked, the creators of the Jurassic World theme park didn't create fantasy-esque dinosaurs and force them to fight each other. Plus, weren't most characters from the films (like Claire) heavily against dinosaur abuse? This was likely just an attempt to cash in on Dragon City.
 * 5) *Plus, certain iconic dinosaurs are rather weak. The velociraptor, the most popular Jurassic Park dinosaur alongside the T. Rex, is only Super Rare... and the dilophosaurus is only Rare. If they are only that rarity, then why is the T. Rex Legendary? It's like this game is trying to pander to T. Rex fanboys!
 * 6) * Lots of non-canon stuff. For example, Vic Hoskins in-game considers the Indoraptor as the perfect killing machine, when in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Vic Hoskins was killed before the Indoraptor was even created.
 * 7) Broken battle system. In the beginning of a fight, the AI opponent always gets more turns than you. Because of this, it is very easy to lose nonstop in this game, making it rage quit bait. In fact, it is EXTREMELY common to play a level that is essentially a brick wall, and -- as you guessed -- the only way you can pass it is to fork out enough money to buy some cash in order to manage to level up one of your dinosaurs, or you will be waiting a lot. Speaking of waiting...
 * 8) You will be playing the waiting game a lot. If you are the type of player who refuses to spend any money whatsoever, it is a guarantee that you'll be waiting for a very long time for certain things. You may wait even half a day just for a 2 dinosaurs to finish fusing!
 * 9) Nonsensical creature stats. For example, Deinocheirus is a large dinosaur, yet it's health is lower than Troodon, a small dinosaur, which is hilariously bad.
 * 10) *Speaking of stats, this game has a habit of nerfing the stats of certain creatures. One notorious example is that they unnecessarily nerfed the Deinotherium's stats from Legendary to Super Rare.
 * 11) Every creature is a reskin of each other. Although it may be excusable considering it is a mobile game, it feels rather lazy. Plus, some reskins make absolutely no sense. One infamous example is that the ceratosaurus is a reskin of the spinosaurus, the largest known theropod dinosaur that is also bigger than the T. Rex in game. So, therefore, the ceratosaurus is larger than the T. Rex. '''Literally one of the most well known facts about the ceratosaurus was that it was far smaller than the T. Rex, despite still being large.
 * 12) * Unlike the predecessor game where reskinned dinosaurs would at least change sizes, these dinosaurs in game don't.
 * 13) The Indoraptor was very hyped at level 10, which is practically roughly half of the stats of the max level 40 Indoraptor, although the stats have been fixed. Yet, hardly anyone who hasn’t hacked the game don’t have an Indoraptor.
 * 14) It is a very glitchy game. Currently, there is a rather annoying glitch in where when you leave the battle screen in the events section too fast (this happens after a battle is finished), the noise made when the bar goes up will keep playing with there being no way to stop it unless if you leave the game. It doesn't help that the game also decides to disconnect itself from the server you were playing in when you leave it while still keeping the application up.
 * 15) *There was a glitch before in where land dinosaurs could fight aquatic creatures. It has been fixed in the updates.
 * 16) VIP must be bought for a certain price in order to get some creatures. So that means if you don’t pay for more than $10, you won’t have a Stygimoloch or a T. Rex. In fact, VIP has generally been considered to be useless, as most rewards it gives you you don't actually need, or you already need money to get.
 * 17) The possibility to visit someone else’s park from Jurassic Park Builder is removed. Also, you know, this is quite literally one of the most common things you see in builder games!
 * 18) There are TWO SUBSCRIPTIONS YOU CAN BUY. Both of which being absurdly expensive. The VIP costs about $9.99 for a month, so if you keep buying that specific subscription every month, that can be about $120, and $94.99 for a yearly plan. The Fidelity Membership costs $49.99 for 5 months.
 * 19) App Fatigue: All the updates are mostly just adding new creatures and/or card packs that need to be bought with real money. Either that or just another tournament.
 * 20) If you leave the game, the game needs to load all over again. However, that’s the least problematic flaw of the game.
 * 21) Some missions are very hard, which could take the game a year or less without hacking or VIP to complete. Even if lengthy games are decent, that’s too hard to last a year. If you actively try to
 * 22) To make it more unfair, you don’t even get a decent reward for taking a long time to finish a mission like unlocking a special dinosaur, like segnosaurus, metriacanthosaurus, ceratosaurus, gorgosaurus, yutyrannus, troodon, pachyrhinosaurus, Megalosaurus, and so on. In fact, the game makes some similar games look very merciful.
 * 23) Some stats are unfair, like the Spinotasuchus (currently) barely increasing in health and attack. In fact, the stats are almost the same as the level 10 Spinotasuchus, along with the fact the S-DNA dinosaurs had the same issue when they were first released.
 * 24) Some expensive deals are pointless if you already have the special dinosaurs.
 * 25) All large Carnivorous Theropods (not the ones with the Spinosaurus animation) have two fingers like the Tyrannosaurus with the exception of Carnotaurus and Yutyrannus.
 * 26) The Spinosaurus lacks the Jurassic Park III roar and sounds more like the Tyrannosaurus. In fact, all the large theropods have the same roars as the T. rex. Plus, the sauropod dinosaurs also reuse T. Rex sounds. Why couldn't they just use the sounds emitted by the spinosaurus and brachiosaurus in the films for those in the game? It makes no sense why Ludia did this instead.
 * 27) *In fact, this game had a problem with reusing noises from other creatures. Most of the dilophosaurus noises are just modified raptor sounds.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Way better graphics than in Jurassic Park Builder. In fact, the graphics are pretty dang solid for a mobile game.
 * 2) Very creative designs for Level 40 creatures and hybrids.
 * 3) Cool method of combat, despite being poorly executed.
 * 4) Some very not-well known prehistoric animals like Tanycolagreus appear, showing that Ludia is nice.
 * It, surprisingly, provides dinosaur facts that are actually true. It even humorously references how inaccurate certain dinosaurs are in Jurassic Park/World, and explains that InGen's dinosaurs aren't intended to be accurate and/or there was an error when engineering the creatures.
 * 1) No ads that randomly pop up on the screen.
 * 2) You get to put both the Cenozoic and Mezozoic creatures to fight in the PVP fights.
 * 3) Some offers let you pay with game money instead of your actual money, so that’s saying something.
 * 4) Most Jurassic Park/World fans might like it, meaning the game's that bad. It’s biggest flaw is that it’s a pay-to-win game.
 * 5) Unlike the predecessor, you can fuse the creatures to get hybrids. For example, you can fuse Spinosaurus and Utahraptor to get Spinoraptor, Alanga and Majungasaurus to get an Alangasaurus, or fuse Diplodocus and and Ankylosaurus to get Ankylodocus.
 * 6) The deals are optional. That can’t be said for the prequel game, due to the fact you need to pay sometimes.
 * 7) If you ignore most of the expensive deals, you might consider the game average.
 * 8) It’s easy to look up the hybrids on Google, if you’re good at spelling the name.
 * 9) They started adding gen 2 dinosaurs that are more accurate to the movie incarnations.
 * 10) The have the first hybrid creature that is from 2 different parks, the first being Allonogmius
 * 11) Brachiosaurs arrived in the game after 5 years since the game was released.
 * 12) Somewhat recently, there was a new gameplay mechanic CODE-19. If you activate it, a certain creature will attempt to break out of its enclosure. You can either play the mini game by tapping on buttons at the right time in order to keep the creature calm, or you can send Owen. Actually playing it is rather addicting, and it can reward you with both DNA and S-DNA.

Reception
Jurassic World: The Game received rather mixed reviews from much both critics and players. Both praised the impressive graphics and unique mechanics, but heavily criticized it for its excessive amount of in-game purchases and nonsensical creature stats. Its mobile version currently has a 67 "mixed or average" critic score and a 3.5/10 "generally unfavorable" user score on Metacritic, with its PC version having a 54 critic score, and a 4.7/10 user score.

Nadia Oxford of Gamezebo gave the game three stars out of five, with Oxford liking the realistic dinosaur models, but stated that the game "combines mediocre park-building with mediocre dino-battling. It's competent and by gosh it (mostly) looks glorious, but there isn't a lot here that differentiates the game from standard park-builders." Gamezebo considered the game to be "pretty much Jurassic Park Builder part II, except the parks you create in that three-year-old game seem a lot more colorful and joyful than the washed-out grey fairgrounds you create in Jurassic World."

Trivia

 * It is a sequel to Jurassic Park Builder, which was shut down in March 30th, 2020.
 * This game's Chinese servers have shut down in January 4th, 2021.

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