That said, we're going to leave on a high note. It just felt a little barren on the new animals front. Likewise we'd have liked a couple more dinos, or even a new hybrid. On top of that, more things to do inside the aviary would have given it some more purpose. We would have liked to have seen maybe a couple more flying reptiles in this expansion, but surely that will be a pack that follows soon. Much the same as you never really notice the compys unless you look for them. Sure, it looks cool, but as it is its own self-contained building, it feels a bit barren, and you can quite easily forget about it, as you can only really watch the animals if you zoom in, or go inside. The only thing we will say is that rather than being a highlight, the aviary felt superficial. Of course, the aviary was in JP3, but if you read the first book it's in there. The other new inclusion is the Pteranodon, which comes with 6 new skins, and has its own house in the form of an aviary.
This signals the last of all the living dinosaurs seen in the films, which means that Frontier needed to go off script for their next pack. First, there's the Compsognathus: the little guy who appeared at the start of the second film (they're actually so small that they're actually quite hard to see when it's in its paddock). Fans have been begging for flying reptiles and aquatic animals to be added to the game, but this DLC only saw two new creatures added. Next, let's look at the new additions to the lineup. Well, Frontier Developments has done it in what can be described as a midpoint between fan service and a brilliant marketing decision, and this grizzled old reviewer's heart sang and his inner 1993 child picked up the controller with glee when this DLC landed in our inbox. Sure, we loved the blue ranger vehicles whizzing around the park while helicopters tranquilise the animals, and dinos like the Spinosaurus were there, but part of us missed the magic of John Hammond and those original skins for beasts like Rexy. With so many links to the films, the fans started to wonder if they'd ever see content for the first movie.
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They even released some free DLC with new dinos to tie in with the fifth film: Fallen Kingdom. The building style, animals and characters were all straight out of that movie. Two books by Michael Crichton spawned 6 feature films, a short film, countless toys and some memorable video games.įrontier Developments gave us the superb Jurassic World Evolution in 2018 which took its influence from the first film in the second trilogy: Jurassic World. In 1993, one of the greatest film franchises hit the planet and our knowledge of dinosaurs soared (or roared, more likely).