Thisaction-packed adventure pits man against prehistoric predators in the ultimate battle for survival. Featuring visually stunning imagery and groundbreaking special effects, this epic film is sheer movie magic 65 million years in the making.
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Jurassic Park is, aside from being my favorite movie of all time, one of the biggest movies of all time. One that has inspired a multi-billion dollar franchise that continues to expand to this day. While the sequels have been a mixed bag, it is a world ripe with opportunity. Dinosaurs and humans don't mix well together. Bringing man and prehistoric beasts together results in disaster, often with horrific results. That being the case, it is downright baffling to me that we have yet to truly be offered a survival horror video game set within this world.
Video games have been a part of the Jurassic Park franchise from the earliest days. Many of us likely have fond memories of playing the tie-in game for the original Steven Spielberg blockbuster on the NES and/or Sega back in 1993. But video games have come a long way since then. We recently entered the next generation with both the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X hitting the market. So, as much fun as some of us might have had with those early, 2D games, there is a great deal of opportunity to make the most of a high-definition, story-based game set within this universe.
A sense of wonder has been infused into the Jurassic Park movies, along with a sense of danger and adventure. But, at times, it has devolved into pure horror. The "don't go into the long grass" scene from The Lost World. The cold open of the original 1993 Michael Crichton adaptation that started it all. Just imagine being stranded on an island with prehistoric animals that, for all intents and purposes to unprepared humans, are well-oiled killing machines. This world is ripe for a full-blown survival horror adventure. What if people were left on the island following the disaster of the original movie? How would they defend themselves? How would they navigate the danger and all for help? Imagine being in that person's shoes, having to carefully navigate Isla Nublar without getting killed by a dinosaur.
Horror video games, like Resident Evil, for example, work so well because the player is in control. They are immersed in the danger. It's not just watching the horror happen. It's active participation. Fusing that concept with the horrors inherent in the Jurassic Park universe seems like a no-brainer. Especially in a time when studios are doing everything they can to exploit franchises in multiple forms of media. Just look at what Netflix is doing with Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. A survival horror game is another way to go about it.
This is not to say that attempts have not been made over the years to do something more with Jurassic Park in the video game arena. There have. It's just that many of them have been, at best, decent (Jurassic Park: The Game) and, at worst, downright terrible (Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor). But improvements have been made more recently. Jurassic World: Evolution was released in 2018 and it was, in many ways, the game fans had been waiting a long time to play. Like Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis before it, this theme park builder, which is essentially Zoo Tycoon with dinosaurs in it, allows you to build and operate your own dino-filled version of Disneyland. It is one of the best, if not the single best, JP games ever produced.
While Evolution did a lot to try and weave in a narrative, especially with some of the DLC, it was still a theme park simulator. This was not a story-driven game. It did not put the player in the shoes of someone dealing with these dinosaurs first-hand in an up-close and dirty sort of way. The biggest swing (and miss) in this regard came with the infamously disastrous Trespasser. The first-person game was released in 1998 and served as a sequel to 1997's The Lost World. It was, on paper, a great idea, but one that was ahead of its time. It was a glitchy mess upon arrival and the technology of the day simply couldn't handle the ambition contained within. Much like John Hammond's original theme park. But the technology is there now. Video games are not only technically marvelous achievements in many cases, but they are also a source for tremendous storytelling. And they can serve as brilliant additions to established universes.
Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order is a premium example of a recent video game that told a story, inside the canon of that franchise, that worked incredibly well, in addition to serving as a great experience for the player. Universal could, theoretically, team up with a premiere video game studio and do something similar with Jurassic Park/Jurassic World. Undoubtedly, it would not be hard to find a creative partner for such an endeavor.
Sure, we had Dino Crisis in the 90s (another game that is begging for a modern reboot/remaster by the way). Yes, Jurassic Park has had more than a few video games in its day. But that code has yet to be cracked. It's a code that deserves to be cracked. Preferably, in one fan's humble opinion, with a horror-theme in mind.
One could look at this tiny theropod and think of it as unimportant, given it's size and appearance. But as one unfortunate hunter had learned the hard way, while a Compy may look harmless when alone, it can be very dangerous in groups. They can be found living on Nublar and Sorna. This asset ranks among the smallest dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, and also among the deadliest. Intelligent and very active, this dinosaur, nicknamed compy by the Park's workers, usually travels in packs able to chase, tire and eventually devour alive animals larger than themselves. It has been confirmed that they produce a mild venom, although it is not powerful enough to cause serious harm to an adult human.
Vocalization: Compsognathus is very vocal and communicate with others using a variety of squeaks, whistles and chirps. Compys have a very advanced language that was studied by the Jurassic Park scientists; unfortunately, the database containing the vocalizations of the Compsognathus and their suggested meaning was lost after Isla Sorna was abandoned.
Diet: carnivore, insectivore; Primarily lizards, frogs, small mammals and invertebrates, although swarms are capable of taking down much larger prey, even adult humans. Compsognathus is also an opportunistic scavenger and will consume dung and carrion. In fact Compsognathus was bred initially to be a form of waste disposal for Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar. Due to the extinction of prehistoric bacteria which broke down sauropod (and other large herbivorus dinosaur) dung, many Compsognathus were produced to help keep the island clean, as their own dung is small and easily broken down by modern bacteria. they also like human food like hotdogs, pizza chips and popcorn. At only 3 feet long in length, solitary Compys more exclusively subsist on a diet of smaller creatures such as frogs, lizards, insects and small mammals. In fact, some individuals have occasionally been seen hunting dragonflies and the small sized ceratopsian, Microceratus. However, Compys that hunt in packs have been known to be spotted hunting slightly larger prey, including stygimoloch, dilophosaurus And even humans.
Despite occasional hunting, Compys are known to mostly thrive as obligate scavengers, often seeking out whatever carcass they can find. When coming across a carcass being eaten by a much larger carnivore, they will patiently wait until said carnivore has finished eating it's fill before moving in to feast on the leftovers. Based on recorded footage, about 90% of the Compy's diet consists of scavenging off carcasses, thus enabling them to obtain a free meal without the need to hunt for live prey.
Predators: As small sized carnivores, Compys are nowhere near capable of competing with predators such as Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus or any other carnivores of larger size, seeking instead to avoid them at all costs. However, as mentioned above, they will often wait until the much bigger carnivores have finished eating before proceeding to eat what they can.Compys have also been found occasionally feeding on carcasses alongside the likes of large carnivores, like Dilophosaurus and some pterosaurs like Dimorphodon and pteranodon. However, this is usually a rare sighting, aswill generally chase Compys off of a carcass, along with even killing those that don't get away in time. The pterosaurs on the other hand appear to be more tolerable of Compys and only rarely do they show aggression unless there is no food available. In the shrublands of Sorna, Compys sometimes face predation from carnotaurus, baryonyx, dilophosaurus and velociraptors.
After several generations, mate dedication becomes a thing of the past as reproduction becomes a much more maddening affair. This is due to the high levels of adrenaline-producing pheromones and the increasing competition within the flock. Vicious fights between males over females and squabbles between females over the best males will occur, with males flitting from female to female in a rush to fertilize as many as possible before their rivals. But to prevent inbreeding some compies leave the pack and make a new pack. Compys are oviparous and build communal nests in remote areas of the jungle; the young are ready to follow the pack three or four days after they hatch. a compy pack is sort of like a family the oldest members lead.
Eggs are usually laid within a burrow underground, a hollow in a tree, in dense thickets or deep inside the forgotten reaches of human structures. Lone parents take a lot of time and care to look after their first brood, thus helping to form the bonds that will remain for the rest of their lives. As their numbers continue to grow, laying and chick-rearing become far more chaotic. Flock Compsognathus nest communally, in which many hastily-built nests all tightly clumped together in a small space. The eggs are incubated by anyone within the flock, not necessarily by their own parents. The chicks are capable of running around and hunting with the adults of the flock within days of hatching, and the sheer number of juveniles produced means that at least a few do manage to survive and produce offspring of their own.
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