New Jurassic Park Game Is The One You've Been Waiting For

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has been revealed at 2023's The Game Awards. The first trailer consisted primarily of pre-rendered footage, but it did give a great idea of the game's tone and atmosphere, which seems far more intense than most other games in the franchise.

Despite Steven Spielberg's 1993 classic blockbuster film having its suspenseful moments, it was decidedly more family-friendly than the novel by Michael Crichton that it was based upon. Crichton's novel featured incredibly graphic descriptions of deaths and was generally darker in its tone. Many fans have hoped to see this kind of tone adapted elsewhere, with many looking to games for this after the success of previous dino-horror titles such as, which came out just two years after 's darker sequel, .

Several titles in recent years have leaned into the management side of the doomed amusement park with titles such as and the series daring players to do a better job than inGen at containing its dinosaurs and keeping its visitors safe. However, as its name would suggest, takes a far different approach and focuses on the survival aspect seen throughout the novels and movies.

While information about the game is scarce, the reveal trailer — which can be found on the YouTube channel — introduced the main protagonist, Maya, an InGen scientist who was unable to evacuate Isla Nublar during the events of the first movie. The trailer showed some iconic locations from the movie that have now been abandoned completely, as Maya tries to send out a call for help.

Through the pre-rendered footage, Maya can be seen hiding in the Visitor Center's kitchen from Velociraptors, running into the venom-spitting Dilophosaurus in the jungle, and finally coming face to face with the T-Rex outside the main gates