Alien: Isolation Has The Perfect Jurassic Park Game Blueprint
While Jurassic Park games have historically focused on building parks or shooting dinosaurs, a better experience could be found by drawing inspiration from Alien: Isolation. The 1993 movie spawned a 30-year franchise that ranges from sci-fi thrillers to disaster action movies, and tie-in games based on the IP vary just as much. Despite this range, few games come close to the themes and tone of the original film.
The earliestJurassic Park games for home consoles were traditional action-adventure titles based lightly on the events of the film. Unsurprisingly, dinosaurs are the most common enemies encountered, and the player is often provided with guns (sometimes, tranquilizer guns) to fight them with. This is dramatically at odds with the thriller tone of Jurassic Park, which showcased how scary t-rex and other dinosaurs could be in a survival horror game. The protagonists have little chance to fight — trying to shoot dinosaurs doesn't go well.
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As the franchise moved on, it saw a key change. The dinosaurs were always the stars, but in Jurassic Park, they were used sparingly for maximum thrills. By changing dinosaurs from a threat to something to be protected and introducing a traditional villain, The Lost World created a status quo more suitable for action games. Later films followed suit, and the thriller tone was left behind for both games and film. A Jurassic Park game that fits the spirit of the 1993 movie might never exist, but another movie that expertly builds tension and rations its monster might hold answers — Alien.
The movie Alien and its sequels followed a remarkably similar trajectory as Jurassic Park. For both, sequels
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