- The computer game will be published by Dreamworks Interactive, called "Trespasser: Jurassic Park". The scheduled release date is December of '97.
- Trespasser: Jurassic Park will not just be a companion to the movie, but an entire new adventure, taking place after the events in JP2 unfold. "[It is] the digital sequel to Lost World:Jurassic Park", says director Steven Spielberg.
- The game, in development now, is headed by Seamus Blackley, the same person who created the popular flight simulator, Flight Unlimited.
- Soundelux, a Hollywood sound company that recently won an academy award for their work in "Braveheart", was hired to to create all the sound effects, ambiance and voiceovers for the game.
- According to CGW online, the Trespasser team have been busy "building AI code, physics-based muscle-skeletal models, bit-mapping techniques, mathematical mapping techniques, wave models for water based on depth and refraction, and more."
- Trespasser is a non-linear, 1st person game. If you have ever been disappointed by the 3-D worlds generated in computer games in the past, this game will change all that. "In most games, the terrain has a tendency to pop. That is, certain landmarks like skyscrapers, mountains and trees pop up suddenly upon the screen, even though you didn't receive any hint that they were there until you were almost upon them...[the game's algorithms will] scout the map beyond the active area to determine if any relevant landmarks are present. If they are, indications of those large landmarks begin to appear on the horizon." (CGW online)
- Unlike most 3-D games, Trespasser will concentrate more on puzzle and adventuring than non-stop shoot-em-up's like Doom or Quake. "[The game will contain] physical logic puzzles such as getting across a ravine with two short boards by building a "T," crossing electrical fences without getting fried, and luring raptors across holes in scaffolding in order to get them to fall through." (CGW online)
- Trespasser: Jurassic Park is on the cover of the March '97 issue of Computer Gaming Magazine. Inside is an informative three page article on the upcoming PC game.
Excerpts:
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"Trespasser: Jurassic Park may be as revolutionary in its genre as the original Jurassic Park film was in its genre...Every object in the game is defined in such a way that it acts and can be used realistically...In short, Trespasser is so real it's fantastic"
- [About the dinosaurs:] "For each object encountered, the dinosaur will have a number of options/activities to accomplish and will always choose the most pressing...The computer will perform rapid calculations and..decide what the animal will do."
- [About the sound effects:] "Whenever there is a collision in the game world, the program's physics engine sends out location information, data on the intensity of the collision, and information about the materials involved..[and] decides upon the appropriate sound, volume, pitch, and location cues."
- [About the plot of the game:] "[After The Lost World] a plane from a cost-cutting Central American airline crashes on the way to Costa Rica. One surviver named Anne..washes up on the island...As she discovers the ruins of the island, bit by bit, she not only hears Hammond's memoirs, but..realizes that she [must] get off the island."
- [About the sound effects:] "Whenever there is a collision in the game world, the program's physics engine sends out location information, data on the intensity of the collision, and information about the materials involved..[and] decides upon the appropriate sound, volume, pitch, and location cues."
- [About the dinosaurs:] "For each object encountered, the dinosaur will have a number of options/activities to accomplish and will always choose the most pressing...The computer will perform rapid calculations and..decide what the animal will do."
- [3-31] According to the FAQ page on the official Trespasser: Jurassic Parksite, the system requirements for the game will be a "P-100 or 120, 16mb RAM, 4-6x CD, [and a] decent video card". I also noticed that, according to Dreamworks, Trespasser will actually look better without a 3-D graphics card!
- Here's some more info on the game, thanks to Max Scoz, who talked to one of the people working on the game:
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[When asked if players would be able to create their own levels:] "Games like Quake & Unreal now depend on gamers editing their worlds, because they realize how repetitive and stagnant first person shooters have become. Trespasser is substantially more complex. Within a 100 square meters on our island you'll have over 200,000 objects, each with skeletal physics. An editor would be equally difficult as coding the game. You wouldn't be just adding a wall here or there, you'd have to add over a million trees,... one by one,... just like we are, or create and place physically realistic streams & plants. The real problem with shipping an editor with Trespasser is in design. Trespasser isn't a series of levels like Tomb Raider or Quake; it's one gigantic world. We're building a fully functioning ecosystem for you to explore & escape from.
[When asked about "multiplayer" options in Trespasser] Multiplayer is a loose term. If you mean deathmatches,.. no. There is however, a 99% probability that we'll make a battle mode where you can team up with your buddies as a pack of raptors (or whatever species) and hunt down that one friend ( he'll be human ) you really don't like. It's rough, we've been in production for only 1 year, we've come a long way & we're kicking our assess to ship this thing on time; so battle mode may be a few months after the initial release.
- [4-6] The dinosaurs in the game will include the "T-Rex, Utahraptor(Veloci-), Brachiosaur, Allosaur,
Stegosaurus, Gallimimus, Trike, and hopefully Pachys and Compys". (thanks to BBCompy)
- For more information about Trespasser: Jurassic Park, including technical specs about the game, check out this CGW online article: "Trespasser: Jurassic Park Is No Technical Dinosaur", or the earlier article. For some pictures, check out the picture gallery
- The The Lost World: Jurassic Park (working title) game will be for the Sony Playstation, and will emphasize more on hand-eye-coordination and fast action to attract gamers. The game is being produced and published by Dreamworks Games.
- The Playstation game is a totally different beast than the game for the PC, the which lets you play "a series of five characters, struggling to survive on a mysterious island populated by genetically engineered dinosaurs. Based meticulously on creatures created for the film by Stan Winston Studios and ILM, the over 25 species of dinosaurs featured in the game animate, stalk, track, attack and fight in realtime in an expansive island environment packed with biological perils." (Dreamworks webpage)
- [3-24] Electronic Gaming Monthly has this to say about the upcoming video game (thanks to BiffFoil):
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"This summer, Universal Pictures will be bringing you an almost sure-fire hit movie:
The Lost World, the sequel to the highly successful blockbuster motion picture,
Jurassic Park. At about the same time, DreamWorks Interactive will be bringing you
(what they hope will be) a blockbuster hit as well, the Lost World: Jurassic Park for
the PlayStation.
This ambitious action game has players taking on the roles of five different characters: a compsognathus ("compy" for short, a chicken-size predator that will appear in the new movie in herds of hundreds), a velociraptor (a "raptor," seen in the first movie), a tyrannosaurus rex ("T-rex"-you know what they are), and a couple of humans (like you and me, except armed with nerve gas, tazers and incendiary grenades). You will take these characters through 24 different environments and battle the carnivorous inhabitants of The Lost World."
This ambitious action game has players taking on the roles of five different characters: a compsognathus ("compy" for short, a chicken-size predator that will appear in the new movie in herds of hundreds), a velociraptor (a "raptor," seen in the first movie), a tyrannosaurus rex ("T-rex"-you know what they are), and a couple of humans (like you and me, except armed with nerve gas, tazers and incendiary grenades). You will take these characters through 24 different environments and battle the carnivorous inhabitants of The Lost World.
- Recently at Babbages, I saw a video demo of this upcoming game. As an avid game enthusiast (I run the Computer gaming section at Suite 101), I can say with authority that this game looks very cool. A few scenes were displayed which showed off the game's impressive 3D engine, including one where a dinosaur (it looked like a Procompsognathus) was running forward, trying to swerve around several Brachiosaurs who happened to be walking the other way. The action was very smooth and the polygon count in the characters was very high...I might have to go out and buy me a PSX.
- [3-30] A demo of the Playstation JP2 game is included on a Sony demo disc which you can most likely find at your local mall video game store. (thanks to Phillip McLaughlin)
- The Playstation JP2 game will feature dinos not seen in the movie, including Leptoceratops, Orodromeus, Dimorphodon and the Allosaurus. (from Gatsby's Page)
- If you own a Sega Saturn, don't worry--there will be a version of the game for you too. While the PlayStation title will be released by DreamWorks Interactive, Sega will be releasing the Saturn version. It is unknown at the moment whether this will be an entirely different game, or just a conversion of the PSX version. I'd bet on the latter.
- There are pictures in the Media Gallery
- A JP2 game for the Nintendo 64 was rumored to be development, but that has been confirmed to be false. An internal Dreamworks souce told me that there were currently no plans to make a game for the Nintendo 64.
[4-11] Look for a JP2 game for the Sega Genesis!!! No, I am not kidding! Check out the Media Gallery for pictures.
- [4-11] It has been reported that Sega will be working on a special JP2 Arcade Game
- [4-20] Some information on the upcoming JP2 Arcade Game, care of Max Szoc):
- [Videogamespot] has uncovered more information about Sega's latest Model 3
arcade title, Jurassic Park: The Lost World. A Sega insider pegged the upcoming
movie-based game as a first-person gun game along the lines of Virtua Cop 2 or
House of the Dead, although it's many times more impressive - even in its current
half-finished state.
Early stages of the game place the character in one of two situations: either running in the hunter base and Ingen complex located on Isla Sorna (the island discovered to be the home of Site B, the lab that originally produced the dinosaurs) or driving a jeep while raptors leap at the player from all angles.
The first boss within the game is an amazingly well rendered Tyrannosaurus Rex, which players must battle from a moving jeep as in the first Jurassic Park film. The second boss character is a giant Barasuchas (a crocodile-like dinosaur about 15 feet long), which lunges up at the player from the middle of a lake. Our sources commented that the game makes excellent use of cinematic camera movement of the T-Rex lunging at the vehicle. Additionally, the water effects are reportedly stunning.
[T]he Model 3 arcade board, is the hardware used for the graphically staggering Virtua Fighter 3, Scud Racer, and the recently unveiled soccer title, Virtua Stryker 2. It can render 60 million polygons/second and is capable of displaying 1 million colored texture mapped, trilinear interpolatated and micro-textured polygons.
- There's also a rumor that there will be a JP2 game for the Super Nintendo, but I seriously doubt it.