Customer Reviews

Jurassic The Hunted

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Ok, I just started this game a little bit ago and have been playing it for about 30 minutes. For the lack of any more information on it, I did want to let others' know what to think of the game. This is definitely not award winning acting, or award winning gaming at all, but it sure is fun for dinosaur lovers. Decent 1080p graphics, but nowhere near Uncharted 2 or some other games but I'm sure it didn't cost near what those were to make in money and timeless programmer hours. The FPS gameplay is simple run and gun dino hunting. The load times are a bit long, but I really don't care, I love to hunt the dinos. Story? WGAS. I sure don't. Leave the stories to Uncharted 2, Batman, Juarez and the like. No really good one here, but it does make it kind of cheesy fun the way they did it. I didn't expect much from this seemingly last minute release, but its a blast and the dinosaurs look good and its a bit of a challenge but not too hard for an old 41 year old gamer like me. I do only have a few minutes in and I'll update this if there is more later. Sure is better than Turok, at least to me. (Lots more dino action)

Next day update. I don't write very many reviews, but this game seems to be getting such little attention I feel compelled to get info out there because I love FPS's and dinosaurs. I only played the JP games on Sega Genesis. Back to this game. If you are into "realism" and hard core graphics and great stories, give this game a pass. There are many graphical flaws and other low-budget game type of problems and mistakes. Slow loading times are a stand out annoyance, but I'll stick with my 5 star fun review and 4 star overall review. There are lots of guns to find and some magazine upgrades to find, lots of the same dinosaurs to kill and B-movie, or even C-movie acting and story telling. (if there really is a story) But this game should satisfy the dinosaur FPS fan. Its gotten a little more difficult at times but that is good and makes for a good challenge. The checkpoint times are done fairly well, but I have found myself re-doing some of the same mission kills after dying, so, just don't die. Well, some might want to wait until there is a larger price drop, but who knows when that will be. For the dino fan, it should be worth it and there is much more to come because it seems that I'm still early into the game. Hopefully it won't be too short.

Final edit: It didn't take long to beat this game and I'm not that good at games. I do hope that the developers really work at a sequel and putting a story together for the next one, if there is one. I think there is a huge market for something like this if its really done well. Like, instead of finding voice actors for minimum wage like this one, get some good ones. And, gameplay, gameplay and more gameplay. This one is ok but its so clearly a low budget game. Well, I took off one star and ended up with a 3 star and 4 stars for fun.

Let me begin by saying how difficult it is to review this title. As I highly anticipated it's eventual price-drop from it's initial $50 bucks I could not have for-seen the thankfulness for doing so. I did some basic research into this title beforehand and discovered numerous other reviews stating "okay for a budget title" so being fairly new to the PS3-esque world I did not know what "budget title" for this system meant with other games being so awesome.
The reviewers were right. While not a "bad" game by any means it DOES manage to disappoint. Graphics are a bit choppy to the point where they remind me of very early "high graphics" titles for PC back in the original Need For Speed days. Graphics aside, dinosaur variety was also sorely a miss. You maybe see 3 species in abundance. Keep in mind however that these are the ONLY enemies that you are fighting. Example, walking walking walking, then something pops out of the bushes that is supposed to resemble a Raptor (forget anything you think you know about how they look, this ISNT it), shoot it, walking walking walking, random gun laying around. You know how you play multiplayer games and there's no one else on the same map so it's just you running around doing nothing and collecting odd weapons? That's exactly what this game feels like. Gampeplay is extremely linear. You-must-walk-this-path-and-do-this-specific-action. If you're thirsty for random dinosaur action/bloody violence, Turok is your best bet by far.

One of the main reasons I bought this game was to satisfy my own curiosity about it. I could find almost no official reviews anywhere and some sites had completely different titles and box art. I guess that can be somewhat expected from a totally under the radar budget title that was revealed like a month before release. Basically this game is a mashup of the new soldier of fortune and the newer cabela games (i read that it was developed by the same team who did soldier of fortune and in fact i believe some of the weapon models are compeletely recycled from that game) and the ability to see the dinosaurs organs as you shoot them in slow motion is taken from the newer cabela games. This game took me about three and a half hours to play through and in that playthough I got all but one of the trophies (play through on the hardes difficulty which is unlocked by beating the game once) there is no online multiplayer, only a weird base defense mode that seems suited for online co-op or even split screen for that matter considering the multiple entrances you have to protect but it is entirely single player with online leaderboards. So the game has very short legs you could easily 100% this game in less than 24 hours and there is not much to come back to , but the price is right and its a decent playthrough, just don't expect to be wowed unless its by the incredibly bad voice acting.

Now this is a very Great game. Its exciting and challenging. And I recommend it to any one who loves dinosaurs and Jurassic Park action. Its a Thrill to play and watch teh Dino's running about trying to chew you up....its never a dull moment

This game is awesome i see my brothers play it and let me try it. It is awesome! You get to go for dinosaurs. If your mom won't let you have this game well i'm sorry for you. I hope you get this game its awesome

Besides, I have always enjoyed dinosaur-stuff in video-games and movies. This is probably the closest you'll get to a "Jurassic Park - The Game" nowadays. The only negative thing of significance in this game (in my opinion) is some framerate/lag issues when a lot of things are happening at the same time. Besides that it's totally okay. The storyline makes me think of "Planet of the Apes" to some degree. Example: After parachuting from a plane about to crash with your teammates, you find one of them dead looking like the person has been dead for ages. It's just the usual travel-through-time-when-encountering-an-electromagnetic-field-routine. You know. All types of dinosaurs are represented here, but the person you are playing is actually stupid enough to believe they are just very big lizards. I personally would never believe that a T-Rex was just a lizard, if you know what I mean. All in all a game with very little hype, that few people know about, but that is actually one of the reasons I like it.

Bottom line:
Jurassic: The Hunted = Jurassic Park + Planet of the Apes + Crysis - Some of the quality that made Crysis so great

I love this game! Best Dino hunting game I've ever played! First person with great graphics! Easy & fun for non-experenced game players like myself.

If you like shooting dinosaurs in the face with a shotgun, then boy have you come to the right place! It's a no frills game, but who cares? You probably aren't here for story. You want to shoot dinosaurs right? Cause that's why I picked this up. I wanted to shoot dinosaurs. And shoot dinosaurs I have. It's quite enjoyable to pump extinct things that have giant teeth with hot lead. Try it! You might like it. It also rains trophies. Seriously. In the first hour the game popped out 35% of the trophies.

This was bought for my 8 and 10 yr old sons. They have really been enjoying it. It is a little more graphic than I thought it would bebut still a great game. Definitely not for younger kids though. This is a first person shooter game meaning that you are viewing it from you characters viewpoint. My kids love it and overall I am very happy withit.

Very good buy and great game. Nothing negative about this purchase its very entertaing. She loves dinosaures and so do I.