There isn't much fighting though, because there aren't many dinosaurs. JURASSIC PARK: THE GAME: Wants an apology for the mean comments about its buttons. JURASSIC PARK: TRESPASSER: Forces you to fight using the most painful interface this side of Die By The Sword, until you decide Anne is having an easier time with her mere broken arm. Or fighting a raptor, again with one hand tied behind your back, and only two bullets in your gun. Imagine trying to stack crates in the same way, with the added bonus that objects slip and slide against each other like nobody's business. If Trespasser has some odd ideas about magic boob-tattoos, it's nothing compared to how it thinks human arms work. If you find yourself mashing the wrong keys, that's absolutely fine. Now take a few steps back, lock your finger in front of you, and do the same thing by moving backwards and forwards, never stretching or retracting your arm even a little. Now reset the burglar alarm before your neighbours call the police. Put one arm behind your back, and punch in a six-digit code. Again, any hint of realism is instantly lost by the attempt to create it, with Anne routinely doing impossible things like picking up crates by sticking her hand onto the side as if both are covered in invisible Velcro. And you control it directly, sweeping it around the screen with the mouse, gripping items with a right-click, and manipulating the scenery to both cross holes and put holes in cross dinos. Anne breaks her left arm during the crash at the start, forcing her to use the most malformed, painful looking appendage imaginable to do everything from shooting guns to pressing buttons. Trespasser's real innovation though was creating the worst interaction system in the history of all gaming-the arm. JURASSIC PARK: THE GAME: Didn't try even a little. JURASSIC PARK: TRESPASSER: Tried and failed to create something new and interesting. Instead, you're reliant on Anne keeping you up to date as she picks up new guns and shoots at raptors, calmly intoning 'four shots left' in life and death situations, as well as try to remember the last number between the scattered action sequences. Much as it can't give you a health counter, it can't show you how much ammo you have either. vital statistics, quickly becomes an albatross around Trespasser's neck. This approach to realism undercut by both reliance on magic, and being the only game in history where I've felt I should apologise to the main character for checking her. Instead, you have to sneak regular glances at a magic tattoo, which reddens as you take damage. Do you have hit point bars in front of your face? No. Trespasser wanted to be a completely immersive experience. It does have its fans, some of them spectacularly hardcore-and far be it from me to call them deranged and objectively wrong-but it's a game that sticks in the memory more for being quirky than being good.

Unfortunately, the concept is as good as Trespasser gets. JURASSIC PARK: THE GAME: Press the flashing buttons when we tell you, bitch. Are you resourceful enough to get back to civilisation? No conspiracies, no secrets, no big epic story. Explore a lost world where dinosaurs have retaken their heritage. JURASSIC PARK: TRESPASSER: Take the role of Anne, sole survivor of a plane crash on the deadly Isla Sorna. Let's compare its core premise to the other game. It's also notable for being one of the few Jurassic Park games to understand the appeal of the franchise, even if it fell far short. To give at least some credit, many of its ideas were even still innovative six years later when Half-Life 2 became the first mainstream hit to embrace things like physics puzzles. It's the right kind of failure though, a game that may have shot for the stars only to hit its own feet, but at least a game with high enough aspirations to try.

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