Thursday Trailer: Jurassic Park

That's right! More dinosaurs this week! What are the chances? This is a trailer for TellTale's take on the Jurassic Park franchise. I'm very impressed with the way the dinosaurs look, because they look like JP dinosaurs. The people don't look that great, but they're okay. The game will be releasing in episodes just like their Back to the Future game. It's said that this game will be playing sort of like Heavy Rain, with action sequences and whatnot. The first episode will be releasing in April on PC and Mac, console versions aren't decided yet, but it's likely. And just to clarify it says the game is $29.99 when you pre-order and $34.99 regularly, that's for all the episodes, not just one, so you only have to pay once to get the episodes as they come out.

And is it just me, or does that woman character in the trailer look like Jade from Beyond Good and Evil?

Dinosaurs!

Remember when dinosaurs were the talk of the town? Like in the mid and late 90's where we had games from the Jurassic Park franchise, Turok, and Dino Crisis? What happened to all the games with dinosaurs? Well, thankfully, I see another era of dino-based games arising. After the failed attempt to revive the Turok franchise by large game companies, I think it's up to indie developers to bring back dinosaurs in gaming.

A nice try... but not good enough.

There are a couple of games I see in development that may help this trend, and the first one is actually a mod that will be available on Steam sometime this year. It's called Dino D-day and it has a very ridiculous setting that I love. You fight against Nazi dinosaurs. They even tell you on their website: 'Nazis. Dinosaurs. what more do you need?' It calls for all sorts of awesome.

All sorts of awesome.

The second game is something I just found out about recently, and it has a very similar premise to the game Depth that I talked about in an earlier article. This game is called Primal Carnage, and it's a class-based game where there are two teams, one team of humans, and one team of dinosaurs. The humans have to get to the capture point before the dinosaurs tear them to shreds. Below is a 'Nemesis' diagram that shows you which class has advantage over the other.

And finally, here is a video teaser for the 'tank' class of the dinosaurs, T-Rex of course:

As you know, if you don't already, I'm called 'Paleo' because I love paleontology, so all of this is very exciting for me. So... what do you all think about this trend? Am I right, or am I just hopefully dreaming of a new trend in games to take the zombie's spot? I know there are other games that feature dinosaurs that I haven't talked about, and please mention them! I would welcome a change, especially if it means fighting against or playing as dinosaurs.