
This time around, the dinosaurs are roaming free in the wilderness areas of North America like Yosemite and rural Pennsylvania and while the tasks aren’t especially compelling, the landscapes are beautifully rendered. It’s frankly a little slow moving and and a bit dull, focused on a series of step-by-step missions that teach many of the requisite skills that will be needed in other modes. Frontier must have paid attention, because “chaos” is hard wired into one of Jurassic Park Evolution 2’s main modes.įor the sequel, Frontier condensed the campaign into what is essentially a handful-of-hours-long tutorial.

The original Jurassic Park Evolution was also, unfortunately, a bit of a letdown, a shallow, slow moving and kind of buggy game that had too little of the expected wonder and potential chaos we’d expect from a title that was all about managing - and inevitably unleashing - dinosaurs. When the folks at Frontier announced Planet Zoo I was beyond thrilled, but ultimately disappointed in the final product because it was - and still is - a somewhat overly dry and complex sim, despite its incredibly well rendered animals and biomes.

It’s a colorful, easy to get into theme park sim that is both immediately rewarding and infinitely deep.

My favorite building sim of all time was, and remains, Frontier’s Planet Coaster.
