Jurassic World Evolution 2

The prologue is in this trailer.

New trailer! https://youtu.be/fb5ELWi-ekk This one's action packed and features new dinos. Blue had a baby! The movie comes out on June 10.

Glad to remember your name is "Dodson!" If you see the movie, you'll understand. I said it to you once before.

I like the new stuff, but I’m disappointed with Campaign mode. JWE felt like a long game. Steam is telling me I’ve spent about 247 hours playing it. I know I went through it’s Campaign probably three times. In order to progress to the next map in JWE, you have to achieve a 3 or 5 star rating for your park. JWE2’s Campaign mode doesn’t even touch this subject. It doesn’t show you things you need to achieve any rating for your park such as amenities. It doesn’t even show you all the cool new additions like the aquatic stuff.

JWE’s 3 or 5 star progression necessity takes time and strategy. This actually makes it fun and prolongs the Campaign. At the same time it also makes the game a bit boring, because you’re often waiting for something to complete (like egg incubation). Fortunately, there’s a great mod that gives you time controls. JWE2 includes this as a feature. JWE2’s Campaign mode only lasts for a few hours. It’s fun, but once I reached that point I was left unsatisfied. An interesting way to look at this though is JWE’s Campaign centered on the archipelago named “Las Cinco Muerte,” which means “The Five Deaths.” Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna are recognizable as they are in the movies. Each island is a new map, although some islands actually have more than one playable area, especially if you have the story DLC.

JWE2 does have 5 maps. They are Arizona, Washington (state), Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Yosemite National Park in California. However, instead of working towards the goal of a park rating, you just have to finish story missions. Those missions are pretty much chasing dinos to put them in an enclosure and that’s about it. That’s pretty much the extent of each map, just in different biomes.

(Continued in next comment as I exceeded the character limit again.)

JWE2 introduces Chaos Theory mode and it seems to be much closer to JWE’s game play. The point of Chaos Theory mode is revisiting the setting of each movie and doing something different. On the Lost World map, you actually get to build and run the San Diego park, which never got a chance in the movie. It was introduced and the Rexes were supposed to go there, but it didn’t quite work out.

The first map, Jurassic Park, is quite similar to JWE’s DLC titled “Return to Jurassic Park.” That was a fun DLC. The voice acting was great, because you could tell one of the characters sounded much younger. It’s main mission is to fix the park and get it back up and running. It gave us Jurassic Park variations of the buildings in the game. JWE2’s Jurassic Park Chaos Theory mode is similar, but more like a nearly complete tutorial. The only reason I say it isn’t complete is because it doesn’t include things that were not in JP such as the aviary and aquatics. I haven’t finished this one, but I’m quite sure that’s the case. I’m quite sure the mission I’m working on now is the final part of it. I’m not sure how the other maps for the other movies work, but so far Chaos Theory seems to be a great new feature that isn’t disappointing.

I may write a full review of JWE2 after I play more. I just wanted to share my initial thoughts here. I can’t decide how to rate this on Steam. I want to give a positive rating, because I love the game, but my thoughts about it are negative simply because of the brevity of it’s Campaign mode.