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 Jurassic Park III: Park Builder September 23, 2001
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
This game looks totally great! It's Roller Coaster Tycoon meets Jurassic Park! You can do tons of stuff including build dinosaur cages, search the world for dino DNA, make food booths to suvenier stands, creat busses to show your guests the dinos. Totally FUN!!!!
By Matthew age 10 June 5, 2003
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This game is one of the best ever! I think it has nothing to do with the last two movies ,only the first. I gave five stars because it is a fun game where you have to create your own Jurassic Park. The goal of the game is to make your own dino park and survive twenty years. The game is hard but really fun. It's graphics could be better, but the game is fun anyway. The excavation crew has to be sent in search of amber for DNA, which you create eggs from in the lab, 140 in all. Some DNA is rare though, such as spinosaurus and tyrannosaurus rex. Good Luck!
Fun But Confusing September 21, 2001
Robert Larson (Dana Point, CA United States)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
BELIEVE IT OR NOT: This review is by someone who actually played the game!!!Although this game is quite different than the Roller Coaster Tycoon type sim games it's been compared to, it is entertaining. You begin with basically nothing but money and land. You can build roads, buildings, fences, or decorative things. In order to actually get dinosaurs, you have to go through a slow process. In order to get the dinos you have to excavate, check your finds, hatch the eggs, then place your dinos. You basically pick a place to send a plane to, you wait a couple minutes, and the plane returns. Than you look at what they returned with, and if they found any full strands of DNA, you can create an egg, and eventually hatch a dino. Then you place it in a fencing area you created. It is a LOT LESS EXCITING than it sounds. You can also choose to build one of 3 eateries, a hotel, a gift shop, and some really boring looking decorative things like plants, rocks, or a clock, a lamppost, or a water fountain. You can only build a road for people to walk on, or a street for the buses to drive on. Because dinos can only be viewed from the buses, you need to have the bus routes go around and near the fences. There is also strange bus stops you need to build in order for people to get off to eat, sleep, or just walk around and get lost. Theres no bathrooms, benches, interesting varied plants, or really too many things which allow you to make YOUR park any different from ANYONE ELSE's park. If this was a PC game, I'd give it less than 1 star, but considering the capability of the Game Boy Advance, it's great. Although to do almost anything it's a real challenge, it's worthwhile. The major drawback is the game limit though. Unlike RC Tycoon where you can choose to aim for your goals, or see how many bathrooms you can fit in an allotted space, this does'nt give you much freedom. If you ignore a dino for a couple of minutes, it dies, if you don't have enough people you've pestered to advertise, worst of all, if you go bankrupt (even if it would be only temporarily,) your game ends, no warning, nothing. By the time I at least understand how to build things and how to make dinos and everthing [the instruction guide has only 4 or 5 pages and is incredibly vague] my game was over.
By the time it get it all figured out though, I know I'll really like it; and you probably will too.
A Must-have for Any JP Fan- Adults Included December 3, 2001
Patrick (Florida, USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
What is there to say about Park Builder? Wel, here it goes:
I can easily say I'm proud that the first Game Boy Advance theme park strategy game is a JP title. It's a very complex game, and at first glance, you can tell that the graphics aren't that good, but once you turn on this game you can't put it down. The game allows you to build and manage a theme park, add dinosaurs, and advertise, then fix problems and keep guests (and dinosaurs) happy.
Like the movie, you have to deal with things like fighting dinosaurs, escapes, storms, and even thieves trying to steal DNA to build rival parks.
The game features approx. 140 dinosaurs, pterosaurs, sea reptiles, thecodonts, and more.
Everything you saw in Jurassic Park has to be done here. You hire people to find dinosaur DNA, then extract DNA and raise the dinosaurs. It's more than you would expect from a Game Boy game, and even at $(...), it's a must-have.
As long as you're up to the challenge, here's a game for you.
A great strategy game September 18, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The basis of this game is to build a theme park, create dinosaurs from the DNA you have collected from around the world, and then get people to come and keep coming back. You can advertise, and even create shops for your theme park. One of the best game out for Game Boy Advance. I would recommend this game even if you didn't like Jurrasic Park III very much, because it really doesn't have much to do with the movie. I gave it 5 stars because I love this game, and I think you should at least give it a try. It has the same basis as Roller Coaster Tycoon. Try this game, you won't be disappointed.
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