Three years ago, I wrote a review for Jurassic World Evolution. Itâs an awesome game that lets you build your own Jurassic Park. You can find a link for that review at the bottom of this post. JWE isnât just a simple park builder, it actually feels like a strategy game. Unless youâre playing in sandbox mode, you canât just plop everything down and release whatever dinos you want. At first youâll have access to all you need to get started, but you wonât have access to every dino or advanced buildings and upgrades.
To get dinos, you have to send out a dig team to visit sites around the world to gather fossils. These sites are actually the real world sites where these... Read All Three years ago, I wrote a review for Jurassic World Evolution. Itâs an awesome game that lets you build your own Jurassic Park. You can find a link for that review at the bottom of this post. JWE isnât just a simple park builder, it actually feels like a strategy game. Unless youâre playing in sandbox mode, you canât just plop everything down and release whatever dinos you want. At first youâll have access to all you need to get started, but you wonât have access to every dino or advanced buildings and upgrades.
To get dinos, you have to send out a dig team to visit sites around the world to gather fossils. These sites are actually the real world sites where these fossils were found. You donât actually visit those sites, you just send a team there and in time theyâll return with fossils. There are some fossils that you can only sell, but mostly youâre looking for fossils for DNA extraction. This increases the percentage of a genome you have so that you can start incubating dino eggs.
There are plenty of other things to do and three different people will give you different things to do, which will help build your park and make it better. There are five different islands where you can build a park. Youâll have to get a five star rating on each island to unlock the next and each has itâs own special limitations and unique challenges. This archipelago is called âLas Cinco Muertesâ or âThe Five Deaths.â Youâll recognize a couple islands, which are locations in the Jurassic Park movies. One of the unique challenges on one island is tornadoes that will rip through your park, damaging buildings, and destroy fences, which will set your dinos free to terrorize your guests. Without tornadoes, dinos can also break out of their fences if theyâre too stressed out. Thatâs just a basic description of the game.
A sequel was announced earlier this year and it now has a release date of November 9th. Around when I first learned about JWE, I found a couple of good YouTube channels. There is one in particular Iâve been watching exclusively for JWE (and JWE2) content. That channel is âBestInSlot.â Click the link below to visit his channel. He provides a lot of great content, including news, game play, analysis, and speculation for these games. Iâve been keeping an eye on his channel in recent months when I noticed the announcement of JWE2. I strongly recommend watching his videos. The trailer Iâve embedded comes directly from his channel. It really is the only source of info Iâve been looking at for JWE2 news.
JWE2 includes new dinos, locations, and features. The dinos included in both games are from the movies. JWE2 includes all of that, but seems to include Jurassic World: Dominion related content. That movie comes out next summer. If youâre a fan of the movies, youâll want to check out info for that. Three of the main (adult) characters from the original movies return.
If you watched Fallen Kingdom, youâll understand the premise of Dominion. Dinos were brought to the U.S. and have been released into the wild. JWE2 no longer is based on the first gameâs islands, but allows you to build parks in different biomes. Most of these may be places in the U.S., but the movie might take place around the world, so I wouldnât be surprised to see some of those places appear in the game as well.
There are new dinos in JWE2 that we havenât seen before, itâs possible they will be in Dominion. JWE has 37 species, while JWE2 is supposed to have over 75! While there was an aviary in JWE for Pteranodons, it has been expanded in JWE2 and there are more avian dinos. The aviary was a simple building, but JWE2 lets you customize and expand it. Aquatic dinos werenât available in JWE, but they are included in JWE2. Two of the most familiar and popular ones are the Mosasaurus and Plesiosaurus, but there are others.
JWE2 also gives players the ability to customize buildings. Some of these buildings are for providing food, shopping, and entertainment for your guests. There are also additional modes for the game. Iâve already mentioned sandbox mode, but thereâs also a challenge mode in both games, providing an extra challenge, but there is at least one more in JWE2. There are many new features, so if this interests you, you may want to dive deeper into details to see the new changes.
JWE2 will be released on consoles and PC, but some content will only be available for the new current generation of consoles and PC. You can pre-order the game for $60 or you can pre-order the Deluxe Edition for just $10 more. Pre-ordering the game will give you some extra vehicle skins (which I didnât like), but the Deluxe Edition not only gives you different extra vehicle skins (which I liked much better), but also gives you extra dinos. Since every dino has unique attributes such as compatibility or incompatibility with certain dinos, I think the Deluxe Edition is worth it.
JWE has DLC, most of which cost some money and I think the inclusion of the Deluxe Edition in JWE2 means that it will probably have future DLC. Iâm sure there will be a new DLC based on Dominion when thatâs released, since JWE added DLC based on Fallen Kingdom when it was released. JWE has a Deluxe Edition, too. Some of itâs DLC adds new dinos or skins for dinos, but also new campaigns. One memorable campaign has you working with Dr. Wu creating new hybrids like the Spinoraptor. Another DLC is Return to Jurassic Park, which gives JP skins for dinos and JP buildings along with new scenarios. Another is Claireâs Sanctuary, which is based on the events of Fallen Kingdom where you have to rescue dinos from Isla Nublar. I enjoyed all the DLC and they werenât too expensive, though I did wait to buy many of them when I could get them for a good discount.
If this sounds interesting to you, let me know. Be sure to also let me know if youâve played it or read my review. Right now JWE2 is the one game Iâm most looking forward to and I will most definitely pre-order the Deluxe Edition, itâs totally worth it to me.
My JWE review: https://cheerfulghost.com/GregoPeck/posts/3796/build-your-own-jurassic-park-world
âBestInSlotâ on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BestInSlotGaming
To get dinos, you have to send out a dig team to visit sites around the world to gather fossils. These sites are actually the real world sites where these... Read All Three years ago, I wrote a review for Jurassic World Evolution. Itâs an awesome game that lets you build your own Jurassic Park. You can find a link for that review at the bottom of this post. JWE isnât just a simple park builder, it actually feels like a strategy game. Unless youâre playing in sandbox mode, you canât just plop everything down and release whatever dinos you want. At first youâll have access to all you need to get started, but you wonât have access to every dino or advanced buildings and upgrades.
To get dinos, you have to send out a dig team to visit sites around the world to gather fossils. These sites are actually the real world sites where these fossils were found. You donât actually visit those sites, you just send a team there and in time theyâll return with fossils. There are some fossils that you can only sell, but mostly youâre looking for fossils for DNA extraction. This increases the percentage of a genome you have so that you can start incubating dino eggs.
There are plenty of other things to do and three different people will give you different things to do, which will help build your park and make it better. There are five different islands where you can build a park. Youâll have to get a five star rating on each island to unlock the next and each has itâs own special limitations and unique challenges. This archipelago is called âLas Cinco Muertesâ or âThe Five Deaths.â Youâll recognize a couple islands, which are locations in the Jurassic Park movies. One of the unique challenges on one island is tornadoes that will rip through your park, damaging buildings, and destroy fences, which will set your dinos free to terrorize your guests. Without tornadoes, dinos can also break out of their fences if theyâre too stressed out. Thatâs just a basic description of the game.
A sequel was announced earlier this year and it now has a release date of November 9th. Around when I first learned about JWE, I found a couple of good YouTube channels. There is one in particular Iâve been watching exclusively for JWE (and JWE2) content. That channel is âBestInSlot.â Click the link below to visit his channel. He provides a lot of great content, including news, game play, analysis, and speculation for these games. Iâve been keeping an eye on his channel in recent months when I noticed the announcement of JWE2. I strongly recommend watching his videos. The trailer Iâve embedded comes directly from his channel. It really is the only source of info Iâve been looking at for JWE2 news.
JWE2 includes new dinos, locations, and features. The dinos included in both games are from the movies. JWE2 includes all of that, but seems to include Jurassic World: Dominion related content. That movie comes out next summer. If youâre a fan of the movies, youâll want to check out info for that. Three of the main (adult) characters from the original movies return.
If you watched Fallen Kingdom, youâll understand the premise of Dominion. Dinos were brought to the U.S. and have been released into the wild. JWE2 no longer is based on the first gameâs islands, but allows you to build parks in different biomes. Most of these may be places in the U.S., but the movie might take place around the world, so I wouldnât be surprised to see some of those places appear in the game as well.
There are new dinos in JWE2 that we havenât seen before, itâs possible they will be in Dominion. JWE has 37 species, while JWE2 is supposed to have over 75! While there was an aviary in JWE for Pteranodons, it has been expanded in JWE2 and there are more avian dinos. The aviary was a simple building, but JWE2 lets you customize and expand it. Aquatic dinos werenât available in JWE, but they are included in JWE2. Two of the most familiar and popular ones are the Mosasaurus and Plesiosaurus, but there are others.
JWE2 also gives players the ability to customize buildings. Some of these buildings are for providing food, shopping, and entertainment for your guests. There are also additional modes for the game. Iâve already mentioned sandbox mode, but thereâs also a challenge mode in both games, providing an extra challenge, but there is at least one more in JWE2. There are many new features, so if this interests you, you may want to dive deeper into details to see the new changes.
JWE2 will be released on consoles and PC, but some content will only be available for the new current generation of consoles and PC. You can pre-order the game for $60 or you can pre-order the Deluxe Edition for just $10 more. Pre-ordering the game will give you some extra vehicle skins (which I didnât like), but the Deluxe Edition not only gives you different extra vehicle skins (which I liked much better), but also gives you extra dinos. Since every dino has unique attributes such as compatibility or incompatibility with certain dinos, I think the Deluxe Edition is worth it.
JWE has DLC, most of which cost some money and I think the inclusion of the Deluxe Edition in JWE2 means that it will probably have future DLC. Iâm sure there will be a new DLC based on Dominion when thatâs released, since JWE added DLC based on Fallen Kingdom when it was released. JWE has a Deluxe Edition, too. Some of itâs DLC adds new dinos or skins for dinos, but also new campaigns. One memorable campaign has you working with Dr. Wu creating new hybrids like the Spinoraptor. Another DLC is Return to Jurassic Park, which gives JP skins for dinos and JP buildings along with new scenarios. Another is Claireâs Sanctuary, which is based on the events of Fallen Kingdom where you have to rescue dinos from Isla Nublar. I enjoyed all the DLC and they werenât too expensive, though I did wait to buy many of them when I could get them for a good discount.
If this sounds interesting to you, let me know. Be sure to also let me know if youâve played it or read my review. Right now JWE2 is the one game Iâm most looking forward to and I will most definitely pre-order the Deluxe Edition, itâs totally worth it to me.
My JWE review: https://cheerfulghost.com/GregoPeck/posts/3796/build-your-own-jurassic-park-world
âBestInSlotâ on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BestInSlotGaming
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I like the new stuff, but Iâm disappointed with Campaign mode. JWE felt like a long game. Steam is telling me Iâve spent about 247 hours playing it. I know I went through itâs 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. JWE2âs Campaign mode doesnât even touch this subject. It doesnât show you things you need to achieve any rating for your park such as amenities. It doesnât even show you all the cool new additions like the aquatic stuff.
JWEâs 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 youâre often waiting for something to complete (like egg incubation). Fortunately, thereâs a great mod that gives you time controls. JWE2 includes this as a feature. JWE2âs Campaign mode only lasts for a few hours. Itâs fun, but once I reached that point I was left unsatisfied. An interesting way to look at this though is JWEâs Campaign centered on the archipelago named âLas Cinco Muerte,â which means âThe Five Deaths.â 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 thatâs about it. Thatâs pretty much the extent of each map, just in different biomes.
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JWE2 introduces Chaos Theory mode and it seems to be much closer to JWEâs 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 didnât quite work out.
The first map, Jurassic Park, is quite similar to JWEâs DLC titled âReturn to Jurassic Park.â That was a fun DLC. The voice acting was great, because you could tell one of the characters sounded much younger. Itâs 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. JWE2âs Jurassic Park Chaos Theory mode is similar, but more like a nearly complete tutorial. The only reason I say it isnât complete is because it doesnât include things that were not in JP such as the aviary and aquatics. I havenât finished this one, but Iâm quite sure thatâs the case. Iâm quite sure the mission Iâm working on now is the final part of it. Iâm not sure how the other maps for the other movies work, but so far Chaos Theory seems to be a great new feature that isnât disappointing.
I may write a full review of JWE2 after I play more. I just wanted to share my initial thoughts here. I canât 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 itâs Campaign mode.