Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is a construction and management simulation game for the PC, Xbox and PlayStation 2, based on the Jurassic Park series. The game is about recreating Jurassic Park - building a five-star theme park with dinosaurs and making John Hammond's dream come true. In the park, the player builds paths, amenities for visitors such as food, restrooms, enclosures and attractions. Also, the park must be safe and secure. The park can be populated with up to sixty dinosaurs, with twenty-five different species from the three Jurassic Park movies. The player can also add attractions similar to those from the movies, such as the safari from the Jurassic Park movie, and additional attractions such as a balloon ride and various viewing platforms. While the PlayStation 2 version is relatively widespread, the PC and Xbox versions of the game are very rare. The Xbox version is considered one of the rarest and most expensive titles for the system, with copies of the game often selling for over $100 on eBay. GAMEPLAY: The player's main goal is to build a theme park/zoo with dinosaurs, make it popular, and secure it with a 5-star rating. The game features are very similar to SimCity and Tycoon models. It is necessary to build feeding stations where herbivores get bales of plant food, while carnivores are fed with live cows or goats. However, herbivores become unhappy if they do not have enough trees around them or enough dinosaurs nearby with which to socialize. Likewise, carnivores have an innate desire to hunt other dinosaurs, so even a steady stream of livestock cannot make them happy. To create a dinosaur, you need fifty percent (50%) of the DNA of that particular dinosaur. The higher the percentage of DNA, the longer the dinosaur lives, unless it dies from other than natural causes, such as malnutrition or attack by another dinosaur. To obtain a dinosaur's DNA, the player must extract it from fossils or amber. High quality specimens provide more DNA. To obtain fossils and amber, the player must send a fossil hunting team to one of nine dig sites around the world. Additional dig teams can be purchased later in the game. Each dig site contains fossils of three specific dinosaurs. The fossils of some dinosaurs, such as Brachiosaurus, can be found at more than one dig site. The chance of finding fossils depends on the quality of the site. There are 6 classifications for the quality of a dig site, ranging from "excellent" to "exhausted". It is still possible to find fossils and amber at depleted excavation sites, although they are often of low quality and yield little DNA. Valuable items such as silver, gold, or opal are also rarely found by excavation teams and can be sold for profit. Attractions help make the park popular and, when properly configured, increase its scoring power and income. Attractions such as the Balloon Ride, Safari Adventure, and Lookout Dome must be explored before they can be built. Lookout Shafts and Lookout Platforms do not need to be explored. The Safari Tour and Balloon Ride attractions allow the player to "take over" the ride to explore and photograph the park, but only if a visitor in the game is using the ride. The player can also observe the dinosaurs from the observation dome, ventilation shaft and observation deck by selecting the "View" option after clicking on the building. Amenities such as restrooms and restaurants are required for visitors. Additional buildings such as a gift store and a rest area must be researched before the player can add them to the park. Vaccines for diseases - such as tick infestation, stomach poisoning, rabies, and the fictional dino flu - must be researched before a sick dinosaur can be treated for a particular disease. DINOSAURS: There are a total of 25 dinosaurs in the game, some of which also appeared in the movies. They are divided into four main subgroups. Small herbivores like Gallimimus and Pachycephalosaurus are easy to care for and don't take up much space, but are not as popular with guests. Large herbivores like Brachiosaurus and Triceratops are very popular with visitors and do not require expensive fences, but large, spacious exhibits. Small carnivores like Dilophosaurus and Velociraptor usually don't need as much guarding as their larger counterparts, but can still injure guests if they escape. Large carnivores like Tyrannosaurus and Spinosaurus are the most popular dinosaurs in the game, but need large exhibits with high security fences and tend to run riot when stressed. MISSIONS: The game has 10 missions that the player can complete. Early previews on some sites like IGN and GameSpot said there were originally going to be 12 missions. There are about three or four general types of missions, including taking pictures of din