Jurassic Park: Trespasser is a computer game developed by DreamWorks Interactive (now EA Los Angeles) and released back in 1998. Jurassic Park: Trespasser is a first-person shooter. As the title suggests, the game was created based on the famous movie "Jurassic Park." Interestingly, the development of Jurassic Park: Trespasser was under strict control of director Steven Spielberg. However, Jurassic Park: Trespasser hardly relates to the well-known blockbuster, except for perhaps the setting where the main events of Trespasser unfold.
Jurassic Park: Trespasser was released on the wave of the success of the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and the developers tried their best to replicate Spielberg's achievement and release a truly good game. Did DreamWorks Interactive succeed? To some extent, yes, as Jurassic Park: Trespasser was ahead of its time, offering gamers possibilities that were virtually unheard of in the gaming industry before. But the noble intentions of the developers were hampered by the rather weak technologies of that era, resulting in Jurassic Park: Trespasser being a remarkable yet extremely raw and largely unfinished game.
So, what's the storyline about? The events of Jurassic Park: Trespasser take place in a location called "Area B" – a zone shown in the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The main character is a girl named Anne, who survives a plane crash and finds herself on an island completely filled with dinosaurs. She has only one chance to survive – she needs to find any radio station and report the tragedy, hoping that rescuers arrive before she ends up in the stomach of an impatient velociraptor or tyrannosaurus.
What can Jurassic Park: Trespasser offer to players? Why has this game been praised so much and continues to be praised? It's quite simple. Trespasser conveys the atmosphere of fear experienced by anyone who finds themselves alone in the midst of vast terrain, where aggressive animals hide behind every bush, at the highest possible level. Only in Trespasser, the “animals” are dinosaurs. The mention of vast spaces is not by accident – the island in the game is indeed enormous. Anne has very little weaponry and ammunition, and in particularly critical situations, she has to defend herself with sticks or whatever rocks come to hand. The interface is practically non-existent, just like the crosshair icon – the player must rely solely on their aim.
Jurassic Park: Trespasser is as close to reality as possible. Anne can break limbs, bleed from wounds, and even lose weapons if she hurriedly escapes from some reptile. Dinosaurs, by the way, behave very realistically. For the predators, Anne is merely a small piece of meat that they can easily ignore if there are herds of herbivorous lizards nearby. They also fight among themselves, share prey, and battle for territory – in short, they behave as they would have millions of years ago.