Good.
Did you know we almost got a brand new non-smartphone Jurassic Park game? And it even looked nice!
And I love me some good Jurassic Park games.
People tend to forget that nowadays, but they used to be good tie-in game adaptations! In fact there's even been a few to this day. Several Disney/Virgin Interactive, Cool Spot, Animaniacs, New Ghostbusters II or the next gen one, DuckTales, heck even the Back to the Future and Walking Dead series from TellTale - you name it!
And strangely enough, the JP franchise's no stranger to good games. From the Rampage Edition to Operation Genesis!
Around Jurassic World's release Cryptic Studios Seattle was apparently working on a game tie-in. Since Cryptic Studios just went bankrupt, they've release some info:
"Back in June a rumor surfaced that Cryptic Studios Seattle would be closing, and that they were working on an open-world Jurassic World video game. Unfortunately, it was confirmed shortly after that the studio had shut down. While the Jurassic game evidence was always fleeting, there was enough to logically conclude that the rumor was true.
The original information, which came from Reddit, described the game as such:
‘I got to see some screenshots of Cryptic Studio's newest game, which was based on Jurassic World. It was a 3rd person game where the player controlled Chris Pratt's character. Several dinosaurs from the series were going to be in it including: Gallimimus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, Spinosaurus and Baryonyx.
Not quite sure what you would have done in the game other than it being described as being similar to 'H1Z1.' Early Access on Steam would have come out soon but that's all the info I know.’ source
My guess? It was going to be a sort of Survival Horror/Alien: Isolation with roaming dinosaurs.
Here's some pics of the different models:
As well as some of the finished animation:
I dunno for you, but this was looking great so far!
I'm just sad they canned this game for no reason (and only re-released the park building game on Android and iPhone again..). I need my gaming dino fix.. why are there so many zombies in video games, but absolutely no dinosaur (except a few odd rare exceptions...). We need a new JP game! Or bring back Chuck Rock! Or something!!
This untitled game was to be released on the PS4, Xbox One and on PC.
Source: Courtesy from screenrant.com.
Hi there! So I have a friend who worked for Cryptic and helped make some of these animations. She said the reason it was canned was because Universal’s IP Bible was too restrictive, and one of their rules was “you can’t have humans killing dinosaurs” (despite every game from the 90s being that, but by like Jurassic World they made that rule.) so Cryptic dropped it because they couldn’t think of a game that wasn’t a Park Sim that could work around that restriction, and they didn’t want a park sim. But that’s why all we got was Park Sims for a bit, and in the mobile games it’s Dinosaurs Fighting Dinosaurs, no humans killing Dinosaurs (but Dinosaurs killing Humans is fine I guess lol.) to them the Dinosaurs are a mascot of the franchise so it’d be akin to shooting Mickey Mouse in the face haha. But people theorize the new Jurassic Park Survival game announced last night either plays like Alien Isolation (so no humans killing dinosaurs, just hiding and dying from them) OR Universal has finally lightened up that restriction. Googled your article when I thought of the Cryptic Game and saw you mention they cancelled it for no reason so figured I’d answer that question for ya! Haha
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