Prehistoric video games
Similarly, amenities and guest attractions are much more nuanced as well. That, of course, comes with other new features, such as building different kinds of decorations around your park to ensure that the guests who care about that kind of stuff are having a good time. Jurassic World Evolution 2 isn’t very good at tutorializing this particular aspect of the experience, but once you get to grips with the nitty-gritties of managing guest expectations and catering to their varied needs, the new system begins showing its strengths. "In building upon the foundations of its predecessor with smart tweaks and clever improvements, Jurassic World Evolution 2 does what any sequel should ideally do, especially in this genre." You know, the kind that is essentially responsible for mad scientists like Dr. Luxury guests want the best amenities that money can buy, while Adventure guests are more about thrill-seeking and witnessing the biggest, scariest, toothiest prehistoric monsters brought back to life.
There are now multiple different kinds of guests divided into various categories, and each category is coming to your park looking for something different.
Guest features, for instance, was the one area where the first game was a bit of a disappointment for fans of the park building and management genre, and Jurassic World Evolution 2 takes some significant steps forward here. Personally, I would have been more than happy to devote dozens upon dozens of hours to Jurassic World Evolution 2 if it had brought over the gameplay of its predecessor as is, but as any sequel should, it makes plenty of iterative improvements upon that formula. That’s a captivating central premise no matter how you look at it, but especially for fans of the franchise, the idea of taking on the challenge of succeeding where the likes of John Hammond and Simon Masrani failed has an undeniable allure. You look after the needs and health of your animals, manage the day-to-day workings of your park, and ensure that it’s as attractive as a tourist destination as it possibly can be in order to draw in larger crowds, allowing you to make money and invest further in your very own Jurassic Park (or World). It’s Zoo Tycoon, but with T-rexes and Velociraptors and Brachiosauruses instead of lions and leopards and cheetahs. The moment-to-moment gameplay in Jurassic World Evolution 2 will be familiar to anyone who played its predecessor, or has spent any time with management simulators. In building upon the foundations of its predecessor with smart tweaks and clever improvements, it does what any sequel should ideally do, especially in this genre. My expectations from Jurassic World Evolution 2, then, were quite high- and happily, it meets pretty much all of those expectations. Granted, a lot of that is down to my love of dinosaurs and the Jurassic Park franchise- but a lot of it is also down to the fact that it was just a really well-made and addictive game. Mind you, I didn’t think it was one of the best games of 2018, but I played it obsessively for well over a hundred hours across multiple platforms, and had way more fun with it than I’ve had with most games in recent memory. Jurassic World Evolution was one of my favourite games of 2018.