You journey through and across the Jurassic Park timeline, beginning with John Hammond’s original vision through to assisting Simon Masrani start his. My favourite here was the opportunity to build The Lost World’s San Diego site – the one that never received its T-Rex delivery. This is the Jurassic Park equivalent of Marvel’s ‘What If’, letting you change events, or take on tasks that never got off the ground or appeared in the films. While the campaign is a shorter experience, you’re also getting Chaos Theory mode. What if Jurassic Park: San Diego was in some vaguely competent managerial hands? He’ll voice an orange cat and an Italian plumber, but not himself? Come on Chris! It’s fantastic to see so many of the original characters returning as voice actors here, tying the series together, but the Owen Grady soundalike remains considerably un-Chris Pratt-like. I realise that we’re likely to get more narrative drops in the form of DLC as the next film arrives in June 2022, but I definitely wanted more, if only because I was enjoying it so much. The campaign is a lovely introduction, though it is a little bit on the short side. It’s not completely enforced though, as you can still add tasks so that the AI takes care of such things for you. While direct control existed in the first game, it’s clear that Frontier want you to be part of the action this time, getting you into the chopper to try and capture a loose dinosaur. You find yourself driving through the rolling hills, searching for signs of Allosaurus like you’re in Monster Hunter World, or refitting a dinosaur poacher’s facility while tranquillising a pair of Carnotaurus. There’s more of an emphasis on action gameplay here than there was in the first outing. You head off into the pleasingly varied landscapes to do your best, with the game funnelling you down a narrative path via a series of challenges. You, along with the first game’s Cabot Finch and a selection of stars from the Jurassic franchise, find yourself involved with Department of Fish and Wildlife, whose remit this laughably falls under. Look after your dinos by tailoring their enclosures to their needs and wants.

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