Return to Jurassic Park is a mod for the 1998 PC game 'Trespasser' set on Isla Nublar several years after the events of the first film. Running on an upgraded Trespasser engine, players will get to explore the abandoned facilities through nine expansive. An annotated and commentated playthrough of the game Jurassic Park: Trespasser, and its successes and failures. Original archived version available at the. Trespasser was ahead of its time, a fact which basically destroyed the game's reception when it was released. It promised a revolutionary new physics system, and an engaging adventure set in Jurassic Park. However, it demanded ridiculous system requirements and offered unconventional gameplay in return.
By Monica Bair |
Now, although it was a fairly obscure movie confined mainly to art-houses and college campuses, I know a handful of you are familiar with Jurassic Park. It seems some crazy old guy decided it would be a good idea to get his hands on some DNA from these ancient creatures (I think they're called dinosaurs) and whip-up a quick batch of 30-foot tall reptiles, set them on an island, and have these little fleshy creatures (I think they're called humans) pay a couple of bucks to go see 'em. Everything was going great until the dinosaurs got hungry and decided the fleshy creatures would be the perfect snack . . . no hard shells to bite through, they're real slow, and those tiny weak bones just melt in your mouth, num-nummers.
Trespasser, based on The Lost World: Jurassic Park, takes place on Site B, a dinosaur breeding island. You assume the role of the buff and tuff Anne, who just happens to be vacationing in Costa Rica and decides to take a tour of the surrounding islands. Now, I can't stress this enough folks: DO NOT CHARTER A FLIGHT TO GO LOOK AT THE LITTLE ISLANDS AROUND COSTA RICA!!! We all know what happens. Some freak accident sends your plane spiraling out of control, you crash into the Pacific, everyone dies but you, and you end up where? That's right: Site B.
Let me tell you, when I started playing Trespasser I thought it stank. I was ready to chuck it out the window -- give it the old heave-ho. Even on a P300MHz, the framerate was incredibly slow, the gameworld was difficult to navigate, and the controls were unlike any other first-person shooter I had ever played. But, after giving Trespasser a couple of hours and becoming familiar with the interface, I got hooked on the game. OK, the framerate still sucked, but it was something I could overlook because I had gotten into the story of the game. It was super-intriguing and the dinosaurs actually looked and moved really well.
The realistic physics engine is amazing and objects move like they would in real-life. However, the realistic engine doesn't come without complications. It's difficult to make long jumps, things get knocked out of Anne's hand when she's traversing rough terrain, and she can get stuck in areas if you go to far down a cliff and realize you can't climb back up. Yet the physics engine is a paradox in itself, making the game so wonderfully genuine but ultimately causing Trespasser to be frustrating and unplayable on the majority of machines owned by PC gamers. And even though the physics engine allows game objects to move like real-world objects, Anne can't interact with the surrounding environment. She can't climb trees, boulders, or even some low-slope hills that would be easy to scale in reality. Another frustrating aspect of the Trespasser engine is that you lose your weapons when you progress to another level. With such an emphasis on realism you would think that the designers would let you keep your hard earned guns after simply walking through the door or jumping over the wall that leads to the next area.
Graphically, the environments in Trespasser are blocky and heavily pixelated, but the dinosaurs themselves look pretty good and move like real animals would. If you pop a Velociraptor in the head but don't kill it, blood will spurt out of its cranium and it will trip, fall, and run away. The Brachiosaurs, huge herbivores with long necks and small heads, are massive in comparison and I applaud the art team for designing such convincing dinos.
Instead of providing the standard health meter in the corner, the art designers decided a heart tattoo that fills with red as you get hurt would be the best way of preserving game sensibility without giving you the feel of looking through a HUD. Of course, it just happens to be on her left breast. That's right, er .. left, you have to look down at your cleavage to check your health. And I must add that Anne has quite a package -- I'm saying even UPS wouldn't deliver this one. Real cute, guys. And I know there were even some women on the graphical design team. I'd like to hear what they said about this.
There are several graphical bugs which will hopefully be fixed with upcoming patches. Your guns periodically disappear, which is especially frightful when you're fighting a couple of Raptors and you don't know if you've dropped you're gun or it's simply not being displayed. But the most annoying graphical problem is the arm effect. As you look through Anne's eyes, your right hand constantly flops around in front of you . . . and I do mean flops. Now this might not be a bug, but it sure is stupid. When you're holding a pistol it's almost as if Anne has just downed a bottle of Tequila, went down to the Guns 'n' Such, and picked herself up a Princess Special because she waves the damn thing around wildly. I also wondered where her left arm was while playing Trespasser. Even when you grab the shotgun or rifle you don't stabilize the barrel with your left hand, instead holding it with only the right in the same drunken fashion. Maybe Anne's left arm got lopped off in the plane crash. The arm also offers up some wild slapstick humor. Occasionally it gets caught in the game environment, between a door and a wall for example, and it gets stuck. But this doesn't hamper Anne, oh no. In classic Mr. Fantastic style, the arm stretches as you leave the area to explore further. Look back and you can see your arm stretched out for miles over the terrain. Hit the mouse button and it comes snapping back like a rubberband. Now that's funny . . . somebody should use the Trespasser engine to make a game based in the Marvel universe.
On a positive note, the sound system in Trespasser is one of the best I've encountered in any game. Along with the realistic physics engine, the designers developed a realistic sound engine which really compliments the action. If you walk into a pond not only do you hear your feet sloshing through the water, but you also hear the ripples lapping on the shore. If you throw a basketball against a brick wall (yes, there are basketballs in the game) it sounds like a basketball rebounding off a brick wall, and it sounds completely different if you bounce it off a wooden shed.
The first-person shooter market is stuffed with too many clones and non-innovators. With Trespasser, the designers have attempted to truly revolutionize the genre. It's one of those rare games that tries to break away from the run, strafe, shoot system all to familiar in action games today. The designers should be praised for their efforts, but shot for their implementation. The problem is that Trespasser suffers from the same thing that plagued Strike Commander years ago: it's a game that is too far ahead of its time. The hardware available now just can't handle it. I can tell what the designers were trying to do, but they didn't quite make it. I don't hesitate to recommend this game . . . if you have the system to run it. And it takes quite a friggin' system. I played it on a P300MHz and I don't think I would recommend trying it on the same -- it's frustrating at best. Even on a P450MHz, the movement was a bit choppy but tolerable. If you can stand the clunky movement in Trespasser, you're in for a real treat. This is a ground-breaking game. I bet after DreamWorks releases a few patches and computer technology catches up to it, Trespasser will have renewed life, just like the dinosaurs it focuses on.
-- Tal Blevins
Trespasser was ahead of its time, a fact which basically destroyed the game's reception when it was released. It promised a revolutionary new physics system, and an engaging adventure set in Jurassic Park. However, it demanded ridiculous system requirements and offered unconventional gameplay in return. Most gamers snubbed their noses at it and passed on by. Now, this is normally the part were I would tell you that today we can look back and appreciate the game for what it really was, but that is not the case this time. Trespasser's ideas were also ahead of its technology, resulting in a half-working physics showcase with little actual entertainment value.
Trespasser has you playing as a crash survivor named Anne. As would be expected, you're flying over 'Site B' when you have engine trouble and crash. According to the novels, Site B is a separate island from tourist-friendly Jurassic Park, and is where the actual dirty research and dinosaur creation takes place. Your surroundings include various dinos roaming free from fences or cages, a lot of rubble and discarded equipment, and a few buildings and complexes that seem eternally under construction. Your overall goal is to work your way from the coast to the main compound, call in a rescue chopper, then climb the tallest fucking mountain in the world to get to the helicopter pad.
Minnie Driver voices Anne and provides clues about what to do. She has apparently memorized park designer John Hammond's autobiography, and Sir Richard Attenborough will frequently appear to read relevant passages. Along the way, through narration and the various sights you'll pass by, you'll learn a little extra about the history of Jurassic Park and the genesis of Hammond's idea. However, this doesn't play like a standard adventure. It's more of a hybrid of a linear adventure and a sandbox. You have no particular goals or side missions. There's no survival aspect going on here, aside from collecting weapons to protect you from errant dinos. The majority of your time will instead be spent wandering through rather barren island levels, solving physics related mini-puzzles that block you from proceeding. There's lots for you to play with along the way, but it's strictly optional. So optional that you'll often have to create your own fun and purpose to picking up items and waving them around before you.
Trespasser has two gimmicks which were supposed to reel you in with revolutionary interaction. One was, probably, the first real physics system in a video game. Objects tumble realistically, boxes topple when they're hit, items can be picked up and stacked, etc. It's interesting, but rarely impacts gameplay. The only areas where you're directly required to interact with the physics engine are in contrived 'tech demos' that have been set up for this explicit purpose. These are cornball challenges where you have to roll a barrel to make a seesaw, make a staircase out of boxes scattered nearby, or push a crate on top of a dinosaur. Using the environment to kill or make a path is a cool enough idea, but they have to be constructed and set up, with a clear intention and physics-related goal. Download microsoft gratis. These situations never just occur on their own in the game.
The physics system also appears to be a little incomplete. Objects tumble and fall, but most give the impression that they have no weight to them. You can pick up and heave large wooden crates like you were going for the shotput record. Boxes can be stacked with great difficulty, and often must be to complete puzzles, but seem to have no friction associated with them. They'll slip right out from under your feet, making climbing them tougher than it ever should be. Objects often tend to reel away from you when you brush them, probably to prevent getting you stuck. Overall, it's far too clumsy to be a centerpiece of the show, especially considering there's very little necessary exploration required to give the system some purpose.
The second gimmick is the game's choice of interaction method. In a move to make the game more immersive, you interact with everything in the world through use of a 3-D hand controlled by the mouse. Combinations of keyboard keys and mouse movements allow you to bend your arm, rotate your wrist, etc, but these are just for show - though it does allow you to shoot weapons sideways, gangsta-style. Mouse buttons control picking up and dropping items, which ends up working like one of those quarter-operated arcade cranes. Controlling your arm is far more clumsy than it needs to be; an interplay of loose grip and broad movements with lack of fine control. Physics also affect both your arm and the objects you're holding, and play hell with whatever you're trying to do. Guns will get knocked out of your grip, you can push items with your fingers as you're trying to grab them, sending them tumbling away, and more similar hassles which I will leave to your imagination.
The rest of the controls are fairly erratic as well. You have one key to run, but not very fast, and one key to walk, which seems useless considering the amount of ground you have to cover. The jump key will work every single time except when you need it to. I can't explain this, but it seems to flake out if you try jumping while running. The catch is that having to jump across gaps is fairly common, so you'll spend time away from the gap setting up and practicing your jump, nail it every time, then run toward the gap and the jump will suddenly fail to register. It's endlessly frustrating. Folds in the terrain can also cause you to get stuck, and you can easily get wedged between the ground and a boulder. These frequently occur when you're meant to jump from a rock onto higher ground - so your jump key won't work, you'll fall in between the two, and get stuck to boot. Peachy.
Weapons are plentiful across the island, and scattered about in both logical and unlikely places. There are no ammo indicators, instead, Minnie will helpfully shout out the number of remaining shells, or guess 'half-full', 'almost gone' on automatic weapons. They cannot be reloaded, so once you're out, it's time to find a new weapon. The weapons act as objects in the game world, and are affected by the rules of the physics system, so you must fumble to try and pick them up. Once a weapon in is your hand, you stick it straight out in front of you and hold it there, making it easy to get knocked away.
Jurassic Park Trespasser Remake
Aiming is done by maneuvering the mouse and awkwardly trying to aim down the sights. Remember now, she's not holding the gun against her shoulder to actually line up a shot down the barrel, she's holding a shotgun, one-handed, at full arms-length away. You'll just have to 'guess.' However, one benefit of the physics is that, should you be caught without a weapon, you can slap a dinosaur across the snout. There actually is support for striking enemies with logs or planks, but you'll be eaten before you can determine if you've done any damage.
The game allows one item to be stored in your belt, and one to be held out in your hand. This allows you to keep a backup weapon, and sounds good in theory. However, items also take up this slot, so you have to toss your backup to hold on to a key, for example. Also, you can't store both weapons on you at the same time, so if you're trying to explore, but want to hold on to that shotgun, you better be prepared to have it waved around in front of your view and dropped frequently as you bump into things. Frustrating further, you lose everything you have after a level change. This is more annoying than just about anything in the game, as you save up shots for the most powerful rifle in the game, lose it on the level change, and find yourself amid a nest of raptors on the other side. Many verbal questionings of the designers' families and parental background were illicited by these situations.
There are a few various dinosaur types on the island, but you'll only need to be concerned with two - the Velociraptors, and the T-Rex. Raptors are your main foes throughout the game, and the Rex only makes special appearances to create 'terrifying,' but really just frustrating, situations. He'll arrive in areas with plenty of places for you to hide, and storm around outside until you figure out another path. He'll never break through the walls or be a serious threat, he's mostly just a great inconvenience. Raptors themselves don't have enough foliage to creep up on you or display any pack techniques, so you basically see one coming, blast him with the gun of your choice, and move on.
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The dinos are supposed to be driven by an advanced AI that replicates varying and changing moods such as hungry, angry, curious, frightened, etc. I truly don't know if this effect is fully implemented in the game, because it's basically impossible to tell. In practice, it simply means that the dinos will either attack you, or they won't. It doesn't involve the unpredictable nature, and ability to watch fascinating dinosaur behavior, that it claims to. Dinos don't appear to communicate with each other, and if there's more than one on screen they usually attack in turns like a side-scrolling brawler.
Graphically, the game's biggest knock is its poor optimization. There's a software driver which will get you by, though without much speed or the benefit of real transparencies. There's Voodoo 2-level 3D card support, which adds some speed but not detail. The engine is indeed 3-D, but quite basic. Only a few polygons make up your enemies, and the game will draw in different, more detailed models as you get closer. This extends to objects as well, which start as flat sprites and spring into levels of 3-D models as you approach. Texture work is low-res across the board. The engine can't really handle indoor areas, but that doesn't stop the game from throwing them at you. These appear as a few connected, vacant square rooms with little dressing or detail. Even without objects to bump into, your character will still find ways to get caught on chairs or twist her wrist around a door frame.
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The game is marginally better at outdoor areas, and the 'levels' the game is broken into are actually quite huge. The central compound area contains 30 or more multistory buildings, all without individual load times, all that can be entered. Unfortunately, the engine uses extensive draw-in to help it chug along. You can see perhaps 50 feet ahead before items on the horizon start popping in, including your enemies. Yet, as if to make things fair, dinosaurs don't actually 'activate' until you get about 40 feet away. This means dinos won't be jumping you from out of nowhere, but it also means that if you're moving slowly, you can walk around a dino at the edge of your vision, and it will stay frozen in place the whole time.
As part of the intended 'virtual reality,' the game contains no indicators or a HUD. We've covered how they adapt for this for the guns. A limited 'body awareness' system fills in the rest. You can see your own arms, shoulders, and torso. Your health is displayed as a heart tattoo, that fills to red as you take more damage, and fades as the damage heals. This gives some cheesy benefits since you're playing as a woman, and I'm sure it's no coincidence that Anne is fairly stacked. Unfortunately, only your right arm is functional. It looks odd to palm entire crates, and your left hand offers no support to guns, extra storage, or is even visible at all.
Now, although it was a fairly obscure movie confined mainly to art-houses and college campuses, I know a handful of you are familiar with Jurassic Park. It seems some crazy old guy decided it would be a good idea to get his hands on some DNA from these ancient creatures (I think they're called dinosaurs) and whip-up a quick batch of 30-foot tall reptiles, set them on an island, and have these little fleshy creatures (I think they're called humans) pay a couple of bucks to go see 'em. Everything was going great until the dinosaurs got hungry and decided the fleshy creatures would be the perfect snack . . . no hard shells to bite through, they're real slow, and those tiny weak bones just melt in your mouth, num-nummers.
Trespasser, based on The Lost World: Jurassic Park, takes place on Site B, a dinosaur breeding island. You assume the role of the buff and tuff Anne, who just happens to be vacationing in Costa Rica and decides to take a tour of the surrounding islands. Now, I can't stress this enough folks: DO NOT CHARTER A FLIGHT TO GO LOOK AT THE LITTLE ISLANDS AROUND COSTA RICA!!! We all know what happens. Some freak accident sends your plane spiraling out of control, you crash into the Pacific, everyone dies but you, and you end up where? That's right: Site B.
Let me tell you, when I started playing Trespasser I thought it stank. I was ready to chuck it out the window -- give it the old heave-ho. Even on a P300MHz, the framerate was incredibly slow, the gameworld was difficult to navigate, and the controls were unlike any other first-person shooter I had ever played. But, after giving Trespasser a couple of hours and becoming familiar with the interface, I got hooked on the game. OK, the framerate still sucked, but it was something I could overlook because I had gotten into the story of the game. It was super-intriguing and the dinosaurs actually looked and moved really well.
The realistic physics engine is amazing and objects move like they would in real-life. However, the realistic engine doesn't come without complications. It's difficult to make long jumps, things get knocked out of Anne's hand when she's traversing rough terrain, and she can get stuck in areas if you go to far down a cliff and realize you can't climb back up. Yet the physics engine is a paradox in itself, making the game so wonderfully genuine but ultimately causing Trespasser to be frustrating and unplayable on the majority of machines owned by PC gamers. And even though the physics engine allows game objects to move like real-world objects, Anne can't interact with the surrounding environment. She can't climb trees, boulders, or even some low-slope hills that would be easy to scale in reality. Another frustrating aspect of the Trespasser engine is that you lose your weapons when you progress to another level. With such an emphasis on realism you would think that the designers would let you keep your hard earned guns after simply walking through the door or jumping over the wall that leads to the next area.
Graphically, the environments in Trespasser are blocky and heavily pixelated, but the dinosaurs themselves look pretty good and move like real animals would. If you pop a Velociraptor in the head but don't kill it, blood will spurt out of its cranium and it will trip, fall, and run away. The Brachiosaurs, huge herbivores with long necks and small heads, are massive in comparison and I applaud the art team for designing such convincing dinos.
Instead of providing the standard health meter in the corner, the art designers decided a heart tattoo that fills with red as you get hurt would be the best way of preserving game sensibility without giving you the feel of looking through a HUD. Of course, it just happens to be on her left breast. That's right, er .. left, you have to look down at your cleavage to check your health. And I must add that Anne has quite a package -- I'm saying even UPS wouldn't deliver this one. Real cute, guys. And I know there were even some women on the graphical design team. I'd like to hear what they said about this.
There are several graphical bugs which will hopefully be fixed with upcoming patches. Your guns periodically disappear, which is especially frightful when you're fighting a couple of Raptors and you don't know if you've dropped you're gun or it's simply not being displayed. But the most annoying graphical problem is the arm effect. As you look through Anne's eyes, your right hand constantly flops around in front of you . . . and I do mean flops. Now this might not be a bug, but it sure is stupid. When you're holding a pistol it's almost as if Anne has just downed a bottle of Tequila, went down to the Guns 'n' Such, and picked herself up a Princess Special because she waves the damn thing around wildly. I also wondered where her left arm was while playing Trespasser. Even when you grab the shotgun or rifle you don't stabilize the barrel with your left hand, instead holding it with only the right in the same drunken fashion. Maybe Anne's left arm got lopped off in the plane crash. The arm also offers up some wild slapstick humor. Occasionally it gets caught in the game environment, between a door and a wall for example, and it gets stuck. But this doesn't hamper Anne, oh no. In classic Mr. Fantastic style, the arm stretches as you leave the area to explore further. Look back and you can see your arm stretched out for miles over the terrain. Hit the mouse button and it comes snapping back like a rubberband. Now that's funny . . . somebody should use the Trespasser engine to make a game based in the Marvel universe.
On a positive note, the sound system in Trespasser is one of the best I've encountered in any game. Along with the realistic physics engine, the designers developed a realistic sound engine which really compliments the action. If you walk into a pond not only do you hear your feet sloshing through the water, but you also hear the ripples lapping on the shore. If you throw a basketball against a brick wall (yes, there are basketballs in the game) it sounds like a basketball rebounding off a brick wall, and it sounds completely different if you bounce it off a wooden shed.
The first-person shooter market is stuffed with too many clones and non-innovators. With Trespasser, the designers have attempted to truly revolutionize the genre. It's one of those rare games that tries to break away from the run, strafe, shoot system all to familiar in action games today. The designers should be praised for their efforts, but shot for their implementation. The problem is that Trespasser suffers from the same thing that plagued Strike Commander years ago: it's a game that is too far ahead of its time. The hardware available now just can't handle it. I can tell what the designers were trying to do, but they didn't quite make it. I don't hesitate to recommend this game . . . if you have the system to run it. And it takes quite a friggin' system. I played it on a P300MHz and I don't think I would recommend trying it on the same -- it's frustrating at best. Even on a P450MHz, the movement was a bit choppy but tolerable. If you can stand the clunky movement in Trespasser, you're in for a real treat. This is a ground-breaking game. I bet after DreamWorks releases a few patches and computer technology catches up to it, Trespasser will have renewed life, just like the dinosaurs it focuses on.
-- Tal Blevins
Trespasser was ahead of its time, a fact which basically destroyed the game's reception when it was released. It promised a revolutionary new physics system, and an engaging adventure set in Jurassic Park. However, it demanded ridiculous system requirements and offered unconventional gameplay in return. Most gamers snubbed their noses at it and passed on by. Now, this is normally the part were I would tell you that today we can look back and appreciate the game for what it really was, but that is not the case this time. Trespasser's ideas were also ahead of its technology, resulting in a half-working physics showcase with little actual entertainment value.
Trespasser has you playing as a crash survivor named Anne. As would be expected, you're flying over 'Site B' when you have engine trouble and crash. According to the novels, Site B is a separate island from tourist-friendly Jurassic Park, and is where the actual dirty research and dinosaur creation takes place. Your surroundings include various dinos roaming free from fences or cages, a lot of rubble and discarded equipment, and a few buildings and complexes that seem eternally under construction. Your overall goal is to work your way from the coast to the main compound, call in a rescue chopper, then climb the tallest fucking mountain in the world to get to the helicopter pad.
Minnie Driver voices Anne and provides clues about what to do. She has apparently memorized park designer John Hammond's autobiography, and Sir Richard Attenborough will frequently appear to read relevant passages. Along the way, through narration and the various sights you'll pass by, you'll learn a little extra about the history of Jurassic Park and the genesis of Hammond's idea. However, this doesn't play like a standard adventure. It's more of a hybrid of a linear adventure and a sandbox. You have no particular goals or side missions. There's no survival aspect going on here, aside from collecting weapons to protect you from errant dinos. The majority of your time will instead be spent wandering through rather barren island levels, solving physics related mini-puzzles that block you from proceeding. There's lots for you to play with along the way, but it's strictly optional. So optional that you'll often have to create your own fun and purpose to picking up items and waving them around before you.
Trespasser has two gimmicks which were supposed to reel you in with revolutionary interaction. One was, probably, the first real physics system in a video game. Objects tumble realistically, boxes topple when they're hit, items can be picked up and stacked, etc. It's interesting, but rarely impacts gameplay. The only areas where you're directly required to interact with the physics engine are in contrived 'tech demos' that have been set up for this explicit purpose. These are cornball challenges where you have to roll a barrel to make a seesaw, make a staircase out of boxes scattered nearby, or push a crate on top of a dinosaur. Using the environment to kill or make a path is a cool enough idea, but they have to be constructed and set up, with a clear intention and physics-related goal. Download microsoft gratis. These situations never just occur on their own in the game.
The physics system also appears to be a little incomplete. Objects tumble and fall, but most give the impression that they have no weight to them. You can pick up and heave large wooden crates like you were going for the shotput record. Boxes can be stacked with great difficulty, and often must be to complete puzzles, but seem to have no friction associated with them. They'll slip right out from under your feet, making climbing them tougher than it ever should be. Objects often tend to reel away from you when you brush them, probably to prevent getting you stuck. Overall, it's far too clumsy to be a centerpiece of the show, especially considering there's very little necessary exploration required to give the system some purpose.
The second gimmick is the game's choice of interaction method. In a move to make the game more immersive, you interact with everything in the world through use of a 3-D hand controlled by the mouse. Combinations of keyboard keys and mouse movements allow you to bend your arm, rotate your wrist, etc, but these are just for show - though it does allow you to shoot weapons sideways, gangsta-style. Mouse buttons control picking up and dropping items, which ends up working like one of those quarter-operated arcade cranes. Controlling your arm is far more clumsy than it needs to be; an interplay of loose grip and broad movements with lack of fine control. Physics also affect both your arm and the objects you're holding, and play hell with whatever you're trying to do. Guns will get knocked out of your grip, you can push items with your fingers as you're trying to grab them, sending them tumbling away, and more similar hassles which I will leave to your imagination.
The rest of the controls are fairly erratic as well. You have one key to run, but not very fast, and one key to walk, which seems useless considering the amount of ground you have to cover. The jump key will work every single time except when you need it to. I can't explain this, but it seems to flake out if you try jumping while running. The catch is that having to jump across gaps is fairly common, so you'll spend time away from the gap setting up and practicing your jump, nail it every time, then run toward the gap and the jump will suddenly fail to register. It's endlessly frustrating. Folds in the terrain can also cause you to get stuck, and you can easily get wedged between the ground and a boulder. These frequently occur when you're meant to jump from a rock onto higher ground - so your jump key won't work, you'll fall in between the two, and get stuck to boot. Peachy.
Weapons are plentiful across the island, and scattered about in both logical and unlikely places. There are no ammo indicators, instead, Minnie will helpfully shout out the number of remaining shells, or guess 'half-full', 'almost gone' on automatic weapons. They cannot be reloaded, so once you're out, it's time to find a new weapon. The weapons act as objects in the game world, and are affected by the rules of the physics system, so you must fumble to try and pick them up. Once a weapon in is your hand, you stick it straight out in front of you and hold it there, making it easy to get knocked away.
Jurassic Park Trespasser Remake
Aiming is done by maneuvering the mouse and awkwardly trying to aim down the sights. Remember now, she's not holding the gun against her shoulder to actually line up a shot down the barrel, she's holding a shotgun, one-handed, at full arms-length away. You'll just have to 'guess.' However, one benefit of the physics is that, should you be caught without a weapon, you can slap a dinosaur across the snout. There actually is support for striking enemies with logs or planks, but you'll be eaten before you can determine if you've done any damage.
The game allows one item to be stored in your belt, and one to be held out in your hand. This allows you to keep a backup weapon, and sounds good in theory. However, items also take up this slot, so you have to toss your backup to hold on to a key, for example. Also, you can't store both weapons on you at the same time, so if you're trying to explore, but want to hold on to that shotgun, you better be prepared to have it waved around in front of your view and dropped frequently as you bump into things. Frustrating further, you lose everything you have after a level change. This is more annoying than just about anything in the game, as you save up shots for the most powerful rifle in the game, lose it on the level change, and find yourself amid a nest of raptors on the other side. Many verbal questionings of the designers' families and parental background were illicited by these situations.
There are a few various dinosaur types on the island, but you'll only need to be concerned with two - the Velociraptors, and the T-Rex. Raptors are your main foes throughout the game, and the Rex only makes special appearances to create 'terrifying,' but really just frustrating, situations. He'll arrive in areas with plenty of places for you to hide, and storm around outside until you figure out another path. He'll never break through the walls or be a serious threat, he's mostly just a great inconvenience. Raptors themselves don't have enough foliage to creep up on you or display any pack techniques, so you basically see one coming, blast him with the gun of your choice, and move on.
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The dinos are supposed to be driven by an advanced AI that replicates varying and changing moods such as hungry, angry, curious, frightened, etc. I truly don't know if this effect is fully implemented in the game, because it's basically impossible to tell. In practice, it simply means that the dinos will either attack you, or they won't. It doesn't involve the unpredictable nature, and ability to watch fascinating dinosaur behavior, that it claims to. Dinos don't appear to communicate with each other, and if there's more than one on screen they usually attack in turns like a side-scrolling brawler.
Graphically, the game's biggest knock is its poor optimization. There's a software driver which will get you by, though without much speed or the benefit of real transparencies. There's Voodoo 2-level 3D card support, which adds some speed but not detail. The engine is indeed 3-D, but quite basic. Only a few polygons make up your enemies, and the game will draw in different, more detailed models as you get closer. This extends to objects as well, which start as flat sprites and spring into levels of 3-D models as you approach. Texture work is low-res across the board. The engine can't really handle indoor areas, but that doesn't stop the game from throwing them at you. These appear as a few connected, vacant square rooms with little dressing or detail. Even without objects to bump into, your character will still find ways to get caught on chairs or twist her wrist around a door frame.
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The game is marginally better at outdoor areas, and the 'levels' the game is broken into are actually quite huge. The central compound area contains 30 or more multistory buildings, all without individual load times, all that can be entered. Unfortunately, the engine uses extensive draw-in to help it chug along. You can see perhaps 50 feet ahead before items on the horizon start popping in, including your enemies. Yet, as if to make things fair, dinosaurs don't actually 'activate' until you get about 40 feet away. This means dinos won't be jumping you from out of nowhere, but it also means that if you're moving slowly, you can walk around a dino at the edge of your vision, and it will stay frozen in place the whole time.
As part of the intended 'virtual reality,' the game contains no indicators or a HUD. We've covered how they adapt for this for the guns. A limited 'body awareness' system fills in the rest. You can see your own arms, shoulders, and torso. Your health is displayed as a heart tattoo, that fills to red as you take more damage, and fades as the damage heals. This gives some cheesy benefits since you're playing as a woman, and I'm sure it's no coincidence that Anne is fairly stacked. Unfortunately, only your right arm is functional. It looks odd to palm entire crates, and your left hand offers no support to guns, extra storage, or is even visible at all.
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Now don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the ideas here. I think I would really enjoy this kind of realistic adventure if it worked as advertised, and the idea is probably worth revisiting (though it kinda-sorta was to better effect with 2001's Operation Flashpoint). Trespasser had some good ideas, but suffered from trying to do too many of them, too soon. The physics system as it related to your character wasn't quite where it needed to be, 3-D technology was still a little too ugly, and the hand interface could have used some intuitive and user-friendly adjustments. Still, most of its ideas - especially the proliferation of gameplay-related physics - have been used with more success in modern games, so they were on the right track. Worth checking out if you're interested in the evolution of technology, but that's all it really is. The game underneath is neither supported well by its technology, or enjoyable enough to play despite its flaws.
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