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Jurassic Park Operation Genesis is an enjoyable game that should appeal to dinosaur buffs and park simulation fans alike, thanks to its attractive graphics engine, unique features, and surprising gameplay depth.

Amusement park simulations are among the best-selling games on the PC market today. Their popularity should come as no surprise, because these simulations can appeal to such a broad audience–men, women, and children alike. What is surprising is that almost all games based on the Jurassic Park license to date have been action games, while the premise of the original movie was the creation of the world’s greatest zoological park. Universal Interactive has finally taken the logical step with Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, a strategy game that lets players create and manage a dinosaur zoo. Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is an enjoyable game that should appeal to dinosaur buffs and park simulation fans alike, thanks to its attractive graphics engine, unique features, and surprising gameplay depth.

The game allows a very wide field of view.

Operation Genesis’ 3D graphics engine does an excellent job of rendering the lush terrain of a tropical island. The dinosaur models are very detailed, allowing players who have even a passing knowledge of paleontology to immediately spot the differences between similar looking dinosaurs such as the brachiosaurus and the camarasaurus (also known as the brontosaurus). The models are also scaled accurately small velociraptors are dwarfed by the much larger tyrannosaurs, for instance. Weather effects like rain, wind, lightning, and tornadoes add to the overall effect. The engine lets you rotate your view in any direction and also has a wide range of zoom, so you can get in close to examine individual dinosaurs, or get a much wider view to manage your park comfortably. Though Operation Genesis also has special effects like reflective water, we found that the game had a tendency to lock up with the more advanced graphics settings turned on. Fortunately, the game still looks good even at a medium level of detail, though the game’s dinosaur animations still aren’t particularly smooth.

Operation Genesis sounds almost as good as it looks. Each of the game’s dinosaurs lets out different types of noises, depending on whether it’s playing, hunting, sick, or frightened. Your park advisors provide some audio cues, and they even visually resemble the actors from the original movie (though their voices are provided by stand ins). The in-game music is the very same score written by John Williams for the original Jurassic Park film. Williams’ songs do contribute to the game’s atmosphere, but die-hard fans of Mr. Williams’ music may be disappointed to find that the game doesn’t use CD-quality recordings of the tracks.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

System Pentium III CPU 1.0 GHz

RAM= 256 MB

Size= 78 MB

Video Memory= 32 MB

OS= Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8

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The House of the Dead Just a gun that lines up with the sights doesn’t seem too much to ask for.

The often used phrase “Virtua Cop meets Resident Evil” doesn’t quite do Sega’s zombie-blasting arcade gun-game series justice, but it’s certainly close enough to give you the general idea of what the House of the Dead series is all about. In it, you’re part of a government agency in charge of stopping the machinations of the nefarious and incredibly monotone Goldman, a suit-wearing evil mastermind intent on wiping out the human race with his monster hordes for reasons that never really quite make sense – or have to, for that matter. If that sounds like the plot for the first House of the Dead game that’s because, well, the evil is back!

While the graphics in the home version of the original HOTD fell far short of its coin-op cousin, the Dreamcast port of the second game is virtually identical to the arcade sequel and looks phenomenal. The monsters and their environments are incredibly well modeled and textured, and your gunshots blast gory green holes through the zombies (which look fantastic when they get up close enough to take a bite out of you) and the other assorted nasties.

The home version of HOTD2 also stacks up very well in terms of added value, with four different modes in all: arcade, original, boss, and training. The arcade mode is the heart of the game, wherein you shoot zombie after zombie and confront boss after boss. Original is essentially the same, but in it you can set your bullets for extra damage or expand your clip, but you’re locked into the basic options. (In arcade, you can increase the number of your continues and lives.) Meanwhile, boss mode lets you practice taking on the game’s boss monsters, and training mode sets you up in a number of point-blank-style puzzle/shooting levels, where you’ll shoot a dozen creatures with only a limited number of bullets, save humans from zombie attacks, knock zombies off moving cars, and blast barrels within a time limit. This mode is great fun and carries the potential to be almost as strong and entertaining as the main game itself, save for a few drawbacks.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

System= Pentium III CPU 733 MHz

RAM= 128 MB

Size= 103 MB

Video Memory= 32 MB

OS= Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8

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