Now let's look at Legos, small plastic bricks that have brought enjoyment to the world. Something every generation can fondly remember: From building your very first car, to buying your very first Lego set, and of course feeling the horror of stepping on one at night.
Both have given great joy through out the last three decades, and will continue to provide quality entertainment;I guarantee it. What if we took one of the most famous movies in history and combine it with the building blocks of life? Well we would get Lego:Jurassic World!
The story of Lego:Jurassic World covers the entire franchise, similar to the Lego:Pirates Of The Caribbean. So I won't dwell to much on the story of the game as it is almost identical to it's film counterpart, with the exception of no deaths. All characters who were killed in the films are alive and well, and the game actually goes out of the way sometimes to point it out. "Hey these guys are still alive! Look!" While the Jurassic franchise is a family film. Traveler's Tales found it necessary to make it even more family friendly. Another thing inserted is humor, while a lot of the humor is very slapstick for instance: The infamous T-rex jeep chase. The rex notoriously crashed through a log to try and get a bit out of the jeep. In the game, the rex simply gets the wind knocked out of it, and falls down in a cartoonish way, and when we see it try and get back up it's head is covered in leaves, it groans and falls back down. While I generally laughed and thought the humor was in good taste, and placed in the right moments to keep the pace going.
The game-play is what makes the game a little shaky for me. One of my main problems is the camera. You can be moving around the screen and then the game will freeze in a certain spot,
so this causes you to have to move the characters around screen until the camera fixes itself.
It gets a lot frustrating in no time, and the countless lives lost. Especially in one section of The Lost World section of the game, where you need to jump over a trench, and onto a vine to get across. The camera would not follow the characters, and made it extremely frustrating to get to where I needed to go. The driving of vehicles is also aggravating, it seems the vehicles get stuck, and it is a chore to get them to come free. There are also several parts of the game; mostly during the Jurassic World sections where characters would not interact or build items on the first try, and having to navigate some characters around the Lego pile. With that said I grew extremely frustrated with the gameplay, not so much to ruin my experience but it added a notch to the frustration level.
One major thing I did enjoy about the game is the mixture of realistic graphics, and Lego bricks. It made the game seem, like you were playing in the backyard. It gave the sense of childhood, and for a lot of fans and gamers Jurassic Park was their childhood, or at least one movie from the franchise help contribute to it. Travelers Tales did a good job mixing the nostalgia with the game, and made accessible to future generations. One thing that tired out quickly was the re-use of the themes over and over again it was nice to hear it a few times, but after the third or fifth time it really started to grate.
Overall the game was a good purchase not great. It's something that can be played once and the player get an overall satisfying experience, and maybe twice if they want to go all out and collect every trophy dinosaur skeletons, and achieve a overall one hundred percent completion. The game is fun, and is an experience to be hold, but as for an instant classic the game fall short. Given that the game earns a rating of 70% Fun and charming.
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