Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
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| Developer(s) | Blue Tongue Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Vivendi Universal |
| Engine | TOSHI |
| Release date(s) | March 11, 2003 |
| Genre(s) | Simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Teen |
| Platform(s) | PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox |
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is a video game for the PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 based on the novel and film series Jurassic Park. The main point of the game is to recreate Jurassic Park - building a 5 star theme park with dinosaurs, and turning John Hammond's dream into reality. In the park, the player builds paths, amenities for food and toiletries, as well as enclosures and attractions. One must also keep the park safe and secure - for example, a raptor breakout could be detected by a secuirity camera, one raptor runs towards the visitors and is quickly taken down by a sentry turret (an automatic heavy machine gun) and the rest are sedated by the ranger helicopter and moved back into their enclosures. The park can be populated with up to sixty dinosaurs representing twenty-five different species. The player can also add attractions similar to those seen in the film, such as the safari, as seen in Jurassic Park.
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In the game, in order to create a dinosaur, you need a significant percentage of the particular dinosaurs DNA. 50% is needed in order to create a dinosaur, the higher the percentage of DNA, the longer that dinosaur will live. In order to retreive the DNA one will need to extract it through fossils. a cheat makes every fossils DNA to 100%. it is ],up,],right,[,down
The first way is using fossil hunting teams to dig in one of the nine dig sites positioned around the world. With each park only 5 of the 9 sites can't be chosen. Each dig site contains fossils from three certain dinosaurs. Every elapsed length of time your dig team will give back what they have found. The chance of finding fossils in the site depends on the quality of the site. More dig teams can be purchased at a cost of $5000 for the first team and an extra $5000 is added on for each additional team. When one's teams are digging they occasionally will come across gold, silver and opals, which are solely for selling. This can help raise park funds if in debt. To open one place from the fossil hunting place type [],down.
The second way to get fossils is to purchase them in the fossil market. The market contains a range of fossils of varying qualities and prices. The fossil market updates every month. This is useful if the player cannot afford additional teams, but the highest quality DNA is pricey.
Rarely, when either digging or buying in the market, you will come across amber. Amber is a very useful thing for one of your dig teams to uncover, especially if it is high quality. If you uncover amber there is two things which you can do to it. You can either sell it, which is recommended if you are having money trouble since it can fetch quite a bit of cash. Secondly, you can try to extract DNA from it. It doesn't say which dinosaurs DNA is in it so it is a gamble, which could pay off greatly if it is the dinosaur you want, since it offers a great deal of that dinosaur's DNA.
In gameplay there is a management team that continuously sends the player mail about the issues and accomplishments that your park has made.
- John Hammond is the CEO on InGen and creator of Jurassic Park. He contacts you every once and a while to report on the status and rating of your park.
- Peter Ludlow is the financial director of InGen and is usually too busy to mess with day-to-day running of Jurassic Park. One only gets mail from him if there are financial or security issues in your park, or if the park's finances are in debt.
- Dr. Alan Grant is a world-famous paleontologist who oversees all of your fossil-hunting teams. He sends you mail to report about finds and the status of the fossil market.
- Dr. Henry Wu is Jurassic Park's head geneticist and the creator of InGen's cloning technology. He sends the player mail about fossil and amber extractions and research programs.
- Dr. Ellie Sattler is the Park's dinosaurs manager. She is an expert in dinosaur ecology and paleobotany. She monitors one's dinosaur population and inform the player about their status.
- Ray Arnold is the chief administrator and oversees all maintenance and day-to-day operations of your park. If something doesn't work, the player will be informed by him.
- Robert Muldoon is the park warden and in charge of all the park security systems and rangers. He also oversees operation of the balloon rides and safari tour.
- Jane Powers is the public relations manager, and will get the player's attention to visitor and attraction problems.
Operation Genesis features twenty-five species of dinosaur, including thirteen of sixteen that have appeared in at least one of the Jurassic Park films. Most of the dinosaurs, however, are based on their look and appearance in Jurassic Park III even if they were in the previous films. Each species is ranked using a star rating (1-5) based on their popularity with the virtual visitors, and is grouped into one of four major categories based on size, diet, and behavior:
- Dryosaurus (1 Star)
- Gallimimus (3 Stars)
- Homalocephale (3 Stars)
- Kentrosaurus (2 Stars)
- Pachycephalosaurus (2 Stars)
- Styracosaurus (2 Stars)
- Ankylosaurus (4 Stars)
- Brachiosaurus (5 Stars)
- Camarasaurus (3 Stars)
- Corythosaurus (3 Stars)
- Edmontosaurus (3 Stars)
- Ouranosaurus (2 Stars)
- Parasaurolophus (3 Stars) (Based on The Lost World: Jurassic Park version)
- Stegosaurus (4 Stars)
- Torosaurus (2 Stars)
- Triceratops (5 Stars)
- Albertosaurus (3 Stars)
- Ceratosaurus (2 Stars)
- Dilophosaurus (2 Stars)
- Velociraptor (5 Stars) (Based on the Jurassic Park III Velociraptor)
- Acrocanthosaurus (4 Stars)
- Allosaurus (4 Stars)
- Carcharodontosaurus (4 Stars)
- Spinosaurus (5 Stars)
- Tyrannosaurus Rex (5 Stars)
Before the game is complete, Blue Tongue made 38 dinosaurs but in the final version they removed these 13 dinosaurs
- Alioramus
- Apatosaurus
- Baryonyx
- Deinonychus
- Diplodocus
- Iguanodon
- Maiasaura
- Ornithomimus
- Panoplosaurus
- Tenontosaurus
- Thescelosaurus
- Wuerhosaurus
- Yangchuanosaurus
Like the dinosaurs, visitors are divided into four categories: Mainstream, Thrill Seekers, Fun Lovers and Dino freaks.
- Mainstream, the general audience, are easy to please and simply want to see dinosaurs.Like most people.
- Thrill Seekers like to see dino violence.
- Fun Lovers like to see herbivores playing.
- Dino Nerds want to see authenticity- they like dinosaurs from similar timezones and areas to be placed in the same enclosures, and are also impressed when prehistoric trees are placed in the enclosures.
Visitors will want to see dinosaurs and also find something to eat and drink in kiosks. They will also need to use the toilet frequently, and rest in special Rest Areas. Visitors will become frustrated when these luxuries are not around, and also get irritated during storms when there are no umbrellas available (the Weather Guard, a research item, can provide umbrellas). They will also rate the park security; the security rating will drop when visitors see damaged buildings or loose carnivores (herbivores don't seem to frighten them), and it will rise when a Ranger Station is built. Dinosaur attacks on safari Land Cruisers cause a dramatic drop in security ratings.
The game also has 9 missions the player can complete. There are about 3 or 4 general types of missions. They feature taking photographs of dinosaurs - in which one has to try rack up a certain amount of points from your photographs. One's photographs get a certain amount of points depending on the rarity of the dinosaur in the photo, the number of dinosaurs in the photos and the scenery in the background. Another mission type is when you have to either dart or kill a certain number of dangerous rampaging dinosaurs within a time limit, using one's helicopter and rifle. Finally, and sometimes the most frustrating task is to guide a group of herbivorous dinosaurs into a certain area using a muster pulse, a blip of sound that can repel dinosaurs. One mission that does not fall into any category is 'Rescue Hammond', where one must drive in a Land Cruiser and get to the Ranger Station, to collect the hunting rifle. Then one must shoot a neaby Spinosaurus, and drive one's Jeep to the visitor's centre, where John Hammond is trapped. Then the player drives to the park entrance and wins.There is a cheat to unlock the missions, exercizes, and site B. It is ]left,left,leftleft,].
After all the missions are completed, a Site B option unlocks on the title page which allows the player to build an island without any fences or any building about people. In it, you get to place several hatcheries and you get to create dinosaurs of your choice (depending on which areas you selected.) The dinosaurs will be created and live out their lives running about the island.
Thanks to the PC version's modular file structure, the game is very easy to modify with nothing more than a regular text editor. It is possible to create almost completely new missions and exercises as well. Thanks to this open ended design, a small community of fans have come together to work to improve realism, unlock unreleased features, and design new things to be included. A group of people have formed the Community Expansion Team (which recently closed down) and the GEP (Genesis Expansion Team), which takes previous modifications, and designs new ones for release in a patch for the overall community. Some plans for future expansion include new dinosaurs and buildings, new skinning for the dinosaurs (to look more like the movie dinos) and dinosaur breeding. However, the ability to create new content with a different models not yet possible. Some unreleased features were Hunting Platforms, Vet Depots, and various ranger weapons.