Equally importantly, its smaller choices had weight too. Even if The Walking Dead's important choices were few and far between, they made a difference. (The velociraptors won't remember that.) Going back to it now, I was shocked that each episode requires booting up separately with zero data transferring between them. But Jurassic Park didn't have any such feature.
The Walking Dead and later Telltale games gave the players choices, and choices that carried across multiple episodes. Just sharing a smoke with my favourite raptor pal. As a game, it's so overwritten there's no room for players to exert their own agency. On paper, this sounds fertile ground for a killer Telltale adventure. Further characters are introduced and the plot only gets increasingly complex as its cast members all begin to display ulterior motives. His employers have sent in backup, while elsewhere on the island dino doctor Gerry Harding is trying to reconnect with his 14-year-old daughter. Those embryos Newman from Seinfeld was trying to smuggle out of the park, well, he wasn't the only one. Where the actual sequel to Jurassic Park focused on Jeff Goldblum (and who can blame them really, after his amazing one-of-a-kind laugh that's more syllables than it has any right to be), Telltale's semi-sequel, which has its roots in the events of the first film, has a more engaging premise. It all started on Isla Nublar with cinema's most famous can of shaving cream. It took Telltale Games, a studio known for comedic point-and-click adventures, into the realm of drama - albeit one where its cast spends half of its time running from dinosaurs - and paved the way for its excellent follow-ups that have included The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, and Tales from the Borderland. It's also not a very good video game.īut it was an important one. It's smartly written with a deep, varied cast, an engaging plot, characterful beasts and more. Telltale's rendition of Jurassic Park: The Game contains all of these and more. And why not? The original film was a classic with its awe-inspiring dinosaurs, all hungry toothy grins and almost comically arrogant eye movements an incredible score by John Williams that's equal parts wondrous, exciting and sentimental multi-faceted characters whose ecological concerns conflict with their own inner child that drove them to study dinosaurs in the first place and its rich setting, Isla Nublar, a comic concoction of untamed jungle choked by corporate interests in a soulless bid to appeal to the masses.
The fourth Jurassic Park film has just come out, a full 22 years after the original 1993 Steven Spielberg masterpiece.