A few new details about Planet Coaster developer Frontier's Jurassic World: Evolution have appeared online, alongside a new screenshot. Not only will park owners have to deal with corporate espionage, there will also be multiple islands to manage.
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The new details come from the latest issue of PC Gamer, helpfully spotted by plok742 on Reddit. Here are the new details from the preview:
- Corporate espionage will be a threat to contend with - while Dodgson and Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park never got very far with their thieving efforts, they are the main reason the Park plunged into chaos. Players will have to avoid the same sort of chaos.
- Frontier believes the main thing management games lack is peril - "if a ride breaks down in Planet Coaster," says game director Michael Brookes, "it costs you time and money. If an electric fence breaks down in Jurassic World... well, you've seen the movies!" Storms, power outages, dinosaur outbreaks, players will have to contender with them and try to stop the attractions eating the tourists. Although Michael also adds, "we don't want the game to be a constant state of emergency where you don't have time to enjoy creating."
- There will be multiple parks across multiple islands to manage - while players will be able to concentrate on one park at a time as they advance the campaign, they can always return to their other islands and both make changes and bring in improvements or dinosaurs from later.
- Bioengineering is a key part of play - anyone who's seen Jurassic World will know what bioengineering leads to, and the latest trailer for the upcoming Fallen Kingdom suggests some similar dabbling with "trying to create a better dinosaur". Players will be able to play god and screw things up royally too, it seems!
- Frontier are aiming to have "the best videogame dinosaurs ever" - "Jurassic World's dinosaurs have to feel alive from every angle" says Michael Brookes.
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And of course there's a new screenshot too, which shows off the visitor viewing platform and, potentially most excitingly, curved fences. It's the little things...
Jurassic World: Evolution will be out Summer 2018, and the new movie Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will be out in June.
And that concludes this week's installment of Dinosaur Park Management Sim News.
