Jurassic Park: The Game

Jurassic Park: The Game is an episodic graphic adventure video game based on the 1993 film Jurassic Park and released for the PlayStation 3, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox 360. The game was developed and published by Telltale Games as part of a licensing deal with Universal Partnerships & Licensing.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The story takes place during and after the original Jurassic Park following a string of events related to the Barbasol can filled with dinosaur embryos. While this isn't a bad idea, the story isn't interesting since it's basically similar to that of the film which is that of a bunch if survivors trying to escape Isle Nublar except with the focus being entirely on the Barbasol can.
 * 2) The graphics haven't aged that well due to some textures looking flat and the somewhat cheap looking character models.
 * 3) Almost all the characters are two dimensional at best and are forgettable as they aren't given any proper characterization.
 * 4) The pacing is off as there are times where it feels like the story is progressing too fast.
 * 5) Unlike other Telltale games, there are no choices to be made. In fact, there is only ONE choice at the very end where the player has to choose to whether Nima goes to save Jess or the embryos.
 * 6) * If the player decides that Nima should save Jess, she pulls her up while the embryo canister is crushed under the T-Rex's foot. After evading the dinosaur's attacks, Gerry, along with Jess and Nima, escapes the island together. As they sail off, Nima worries how she will take care of her daughter without the money the embryos would have brought her, but Jess manages to find a large case of money in the boat, presumably the payment she would have received for the embryos, implying that everything will work out in the end.
 * 7) * If Nima goes to retrieve the embryos however, she is devoured by the T-Rex while Gerry and Jess escape the island on a boat, with the former deciding to return to his old job as a regular zoo veterinarian so that he can be closer to Jess. He also mentions taking care of Nima's daughter, perhaps even adopting her on Nima's behalf.
 * 8) It's really short and can be beaten in about 3-4 hours, which is shorter than most of Telltale's games.
 * 9) This is the only Telltale game with a ranking system that gives you a bronze, silver, or gold ranking depending on how well you do with the QTEs. You can get a gold ranking for doing all QTEs without making a mistake. However, this system is completely arbitrary since you don't get anything for getting all gold rankings.
 * 10) There's a QTE that requires you to line up a node to the center, which is tedious due to how sensitive the node is.
 * 11) Some of the characters' expressions can look really weird at times.
 * 12) Yoder is supposed to have gone insane after seeing his friends constantly die, but given the lack of build up it would appear as if the game suddenly makes Yonder the bad guy just so there can be conflict.
 * 13) The "Fight To The Death" action sequence where Nima fights Yoder is easily the most difficult to get a gold rank on. With numerous QTEs appearing often immediately after one another and having less than a second to hit them in time.
 * 14) Missed Opportunity: The Troodons are established to be a bigger threat than the Raptors, as in smarter and more dangerous to the point Raptors flee upon hearing their presence. Despite this, they only appear in the shadows for the first three and make their first full appearance in Episode 4 but quickly disappear after the first act.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The game looked pretty good for its time, but as said hasn't aged well.
 * 2) Decent voice acting especially Nika Futterman as Nima.
 * 3) Nima and Oscar are the only likable characters.
 * 4) Nice callbacks to the original movie like the entrance with the T-Rex that we saw at the end of the movie.
 * 5) As you progress, you can unlock entries to Dr. Sorkin's journal, which gives details about the dinosaurs you see, which is neat.

Reception
Jurassic Park: The Game received "mixed or average reviews" according to Metacritic.

IGN's Greg Miller said of the game, "Jurassic Park is a meandering tale of forgettable characters getting lost in a park that is far less wondrous than the one we saw on the silver screen".

Carolyin Petit from GameSpot stated that while it was "fun to watch Jurassic Park's story play out, the cinematic adventure wasn't much fun to actually play." While she praised the use of the source material, she criticized the lack of challenging puzzles and lack of context for conversation options. She concluded her review comparing the game progression to the "cars on rigid tracks, offering no control where it goes or how it gets there. You're just along for the ride."

However, Richard Cobbett of PC Gamer gave the game an unfavorable review, calling the game "a barely interactive movie that asks nothing of you but the most basic of motor functions," taking issue with the gameplay taking a back seat to the plot, which he described as "a hammy but watchable sequel to the first movie."

Development staff at Telltale Games wrote favorable user reviews for the game on Metacritic without disclosing their affiliation to the game. In the United States, Jurassic Park: The Game was the sixth best-selling PlayStation Network game for November 2011. In 2015, Eurogamer stated that the game's material would have worked better for a film, stating that the story was a "great sequel" to the film but that it was "embodied in a subpar game."