Jurassic World Evolution 2 (PS4)

After playing this game for couple hours i think im ready to give it a honest review. So lets start.Pros:-Better animations when compared to jwe1-Better textures and models when compared to jwe1-Marine reptiles (yay)-Multiple improvements in terms of gameplay (time acceleration, more in depth management, -More customizable buildings)-Better dino ai when compared to jwe1-Egg incubation reworked which makes more sense considering jurassic park lore than the system we had in jwe1.-Chaos theory gamemode, In my opinion its the true campaign of the game-New skin and pattern systemNow lets move onto the consCons:-Animations and models glitching quite frequently-Sometimes ranger team pathfinding is awful-Micromanagement (i will go more in depth ... MoreAfter playing this game for couple hours i think im ready to give it a honest review. So lets start.Pros:-Better animations when compared to jwe1-Better textures and models when compared to jwe1-Marine reptiles (yay)-Multiple improvements in terms of gameplay (time acceleration, more in depth management, -More customizable buildings)-Better dino ai when compared to jwe1-Egg incubation reworked which makes more sense considering jurassic park lore than the system we had in jwe1.-Chaos theory gamemode, In my opinion its the true campaign of the game-New skin and pattern systemNow lets move onto the consCons:-Animations and models glitching quite frequently-Sometimes ranger team pathfinding is awful-Micromanagement (i will go more in depth later)-Sandbox mode needs a LOT of grinding in order to have everything unlocked-Ranger outposts.... just why frontier-Campaign is really short. Although the chaos theory mode more than makes up for it

It's just four new animals to use in your park. You get the sauropod Alamosaurus, the theropod Australovenator, the pterosaur Barbaridactylus and the plesiosaur Styxosaurus. They're all pretty visually distinct; Styxosaurus has some cool bioluminescent options, for example. You could probably live without these animals being available but I'm a dinosaur nerd and want every animal available so of course I jumped on this.

Better Sandbox, worse Park Management SimMaps are fabulously varied and gorgeous; Dinosaurs look and sound (for the most part - looking at you spinosaurus) better than ever; customisation is comprehensive for both buildings and dinosaurs. Highly recommend sandbox mode!Campaign, Chaos Theory and Challenge modes are a mixed bag: additional park management layers have been added in the form of scientists that makes any task a multi-step proccess that becomes quickly tedious and repetitive.Challenge mode is about speed and efficiency which results in awful looking parks with uninteresting dinosaurs or good looking parks that are bankrupt/ took too long. Genetic modification has no real purpose since it's too expensive and time costly outside of sandbox and within ... MoreBetter Sandbox, worse Park Management SimMaps are fabulously varied and gorgeous; Dinosaurs look and sound (for the most part - looking at you spinosaurus) better than ever; customisation is comprehensive for both buildings and dinosaurs. Highly recommend sandbox mode!Campaign, Chaos Theory and Challenge modes are a mixed bag: additional park management layers have been added in the form of scientists that makes any task a multi-step proccess that becomes quickly tedious and repetitive.Challenge mode is about speed and efficiency which results in awful looking parks with uninteresting dinosaurs or good looking parks that are bankrupt/ took too long. Genetic modification has no real purpose since it's too expensive and time costly outside of sandbox and within sandbox there's little to no need for making dinosaurs more tolerant or less aggressive etc. Aviaries and lagoons suffer a similar fate despite being an anticipated feature - sandbox is where you get to enjoy them.

An absolute joke compared to the first game.

There are so many things wrong with this game. If you played the first game and liked to make your park look good and decorate the enclosure and all of that well you're going to absolutely hate this one... But there is a lot of issues with this game. And they got rid of so much stuff from the first game and made so many changes that just ruined the game. The game is terrible compared to the first and was a waste of money.It is a huge grind. They actually got rid of a ton of scenery items that were in the last game and there were a good amount in the last game. The last game had trees and rocks. You could use textures and I make your enclosure look awesome and going to detail but in this game the textures now count towards comfort of your dinosaurs. And they change ... MoreThere are so many things wrong with this game. If you played the first game and liked to make your park look good and decorate the enclosure and all of that well you're going to absolutely hate this one... But there is a lot of issues with this game. And they got rid of so much stuff from the first game and made so many changes that just ruined the game. The game is terrible compared to the first and was a waste of money.It is a huge grind. They actually got rid of a ton of scenery items that were in the last game and there were a good amount in the last game. The last game had trees and rocks. You could use textures and I make your enclosure look awesome and going to detail but in this game the textures now count towards comfort of your dinosaurs. And they change the colorings of the textures as well. so sand just looks like dirt so you can spend time trying to make your enclosure look good and then have to cover half of it with sand depending on that dinosaurs. Depending on the area you go to will vary on the types of rocks you get and the types of forest you get. The last game has variety This game doesnt. Your herbivore enclosures now need to have plants in them to keep themselves sustaining. These plants are like complete ground coverage and there are various plants. That don't match anything and just looks terrible.The trees and nuts and fruit and all that stuff It takes over forest areas. Ground foliage literally deletes tall trees because apparently grass isn't growing under trees. A lot of dinos needed good amount of open space and trying to get a balance from deleting this and adding that and spending forever doing it is ridiculous.And because they completely removed the tree sceneries that were there in the first game... You pretty much just get this ugly chaotic enclosure full of random things that don't match anything whatsoever and just looks terrible. But if you don't care about that then it's not really a problem. I didn't like my punk to look bad I'd like them to look appealing Well they certainly look bad in this game and you have no choice. I don't know what genius decided that the only scenery that you can put in the game for the environment is a whole bunch of rocks but that's ridiculous.Also you can't put sauropods in with brontosaurus and the like. They don't get along.... Seriously? That doesn't even make sense.Oh and non-watered dinos need a certain amount of water now. So having a pond of water or a lake or something might not be enough so you can have your enclosure and then they'll get mad because they don't want to you know walk across the other side of the enclosure to drink water and demand more of it. Oh the territory between dinos is now circled around each dinosaur and moves with the dinosaur. Your ranger stations now need to go to these poles to inspect your dinos because you don't just know if they're sick or whatever No you have to have your rangers inspect each dinosaur to find out what they want. Which is really annoying when you drop your dinos down and you want to make their enclosure the best you can except you don't know If it's going to work because you have to wait for your rangers to inspect the dinosaurs and tell you. And if they're not fast enough then you are just going to go ahead and let the dinosaurs bust out of the fence unless of course you have the money to train them all and wait.The last games aviaries you couldn't decorate but they had cool cliffs and it looked really nice inside of them... Now you have to decorate yourself which leaves you able to put a whole bunch of water and a couple rocks and one tiny little section of forest that's it. It just looks sad. AThe scenery lets you choose from about 20 different rocks and you still cannot stack them and they still cannot touch.The pretty trees we got in the last game are gone. If you remember the scenery tab in the last game there were cool trees you could put in... Not anymore they completely remove them from the game! But there's potted plants now.... Oh and the one main forest matches the area you're in.. So if you're in Pennsylvania then you're trees will be like fall maple trees or something but the ground food for your herbivores don't change so you can be in a wintry area and all your plants are from a swamp... Which looks ridiculous.The only good things about this game is when you go to hatch dinosaurs you get a clutch of eggs to choose from instead of having to do one at a time And you can air lift them directly from the hatchery.There's also a pause and fast forward button. And there's also a day and night cycle. That's the improvements of the game that's it...You have scientists now that you have to pay for everything literally they will get tired and you will have to pay for them to sleep.. $70k+ to have them rest... And you have to pay for a specific building for them to do so. Why am I paying them to sleep?? There's also different things that you have to do that pop up in the game. Like you'll get a screen that pops up and says your manager is sick for the day so hire a replacement for $200,000 or have a scientists take over the daybfor half the cost. Except there's problems with each of them so like paying the $200,000 will increase your public appeal but having a scientist do it Well lower the public opinion of you by 20% or whatever. One popped up with your employee was on vacation and injured themselves and had to go to the hospital pay their medical bills for $500,000 or don't and your public opinion of your park will go down 25%. There is so much going on in this game. And there's so much grind for you to unlock certain things you have to do this mode and then you have to do that mode and there's so many different levels.You have to unlock every single itty bitty thing in this game and you have to play different modes to do it. Seriously you have to unlock different path sizes. The very little amount of things in this game you can unlock I believe expensive in time-consuming to unlock.The campaign is also a joke by the way hands down the worst campaign I've ever played in any game. You don't get a tutorial on half of things to use in the game by the way and you just got to figure it out.Now if it was exactly like the last game that wouldn't be an issue except It's very different.For them to delete so many scenery items from the last game and change the texture colors and make all these different changes it literally just broke the game.Unless You like your enclosures to just look terrible and don't care I guess then the enclosures don't matter.I just never liked my park to look bad but it has to in this game. Somehow this game got better reviews in the last one and there's absolutely no reason for that This game is worse than the first one by far. I'm assuming a lot of these reviews are from people that bought this game for their children that don't really know the mechanics and the children like it Because there's dinosaurs in it. A lot of the reviews you see are:" I got this for my kid and they like the game here's five stars." You're not seeing in-depth reviews on the game.You can paint store buildings and you have some potted plants to put out. The only scenery items you can really get are rocks seriously there are 20 rocks..... And they vary from different types of location .I don't know It's like they listened to a select group of fans from the last game and deleted what this fan didn't like and added with this fan wanted. What's just cause chaos and completely destroyed game quality in my opinion.I don't recommend this game to anyone.And frankly doesn't make sense they took so much out of the last game changed everything to make this huge grind game with virtually zero improvements. I have never been more disappointed in any game in my life. I had huge expectations with this game but I didn't expect a second game to come out that's worse than the first game by far. This game is also still incredibly expensive. If you want this game seriously do not spend more than $15 on it and that's being generous on the $15. This game is not worth the price tag that it has at all. Frankly I wouldn't spend more than 10 bucks on this game. This game is a huge disappointment to me and well my friends that also played the last game were pretty shocked at the changes. Unfortunately I don't have a gaming PC or else I just buy prehistoric kingdom and have an epic dinosaur game. But I'm stuck with console. Seriously do not waste your money on this. Oh also in this game you no longer have power stations you have generators. Which eliminated the power lines except now you have to pay for fuel which is like a half a million dollars. And it goes fast and you need a crap ton of generators out to power your Park because it only covers a little bit of area around it. This game was just terrible. So hopefully my detailed review helps a few people Make the right choice I'm not buying this game. Or at least wait until it's on sale for $15. Don't waste your money on it It's not worth it. The previous game blows this one out of the water and it is way cheaper.

Another item with a price drop after purchase

Wow...this is getting extremely frustrating and disappointing. This is the second item (in one order) that I have paid much more for than the price is now...only one day later!!?!? I paid over 40 dollars for this game and now it's priced at 29 dollars!!! This is a disgusting business practice as my family has been customers of Walmart for many years. I believe the difference in cost should be refunded to me. Most people are struggling financially this holiday season and to treat people like this is deplorable.

Far too difficult!

A lot has changed in this game, and not for the better. Everything is way more costly than the last game as you need scientists for a ton of stuff. You can't sell fossils any more which is absolutely ridiculous! So it forces you to spend money on scientists to extract the dna on every single fossil you find.Guest amenities make no sense. It's not just simple and straightforward any more. There are all these other factors now and even though you've got guests in your park, your food place for example will still be sitting at zero guests and minus -$7,500 in profit, but they'll still be complaining that there's not enough places???? Same goes for drink and gifts, you can have 2 of each and they'll still complain.Pros are that you can now airlift dinosaurs straight ... MoreA lot has changed in this game, and not for the better. Everything is way more costly than the last game as you need scientists for a ton of stuff. You can't sell fossils any more which is absolutely ridiculous! So it forces you to spend money on scientists to extract the dna on every single fossil you find.Guest amenities make no sense. It's not just simple and straightforward any more. There are all these other factors now and even though you've got guests in your park, your food place for example will still be sitting at zero guests and minus -$7,500 in profit, but they'll still be complaining that there's not enough places???? Same goes for drink and gifts, you can have 2 of each and they'll still complain.Pros are that you can now airlift dinosaurs straight out of a hatchery to a separate enclosure (or just release straight into enclosure still) - saves you tranquillising and moving with the danger it might get attacked by other dinosaurs. Feeders are now automatically refilled if you have a ranger post in the enclosure, which is a huge win compared to the annoyance of constantly having to refill in the last game. That's about all I can really think of.Save your money and go for the last one instead. Much more fun and simple. I'm 28 years old and have been playing games since the 90's, and even I had far too much frustration from this game. I'll go back to jurassic world evolution.

Good sequel

This game is absolutely AMAZING. One of the most addicting and fun games to play. It is so creative and you can do loads of cool stuff. A little expensive for the DLCs and the main games, but TOTALLY worth it. Well over 50 dinosaurs, some really cool looks. So many options on what to do with your park. It is practically perfect and I can’t stop playing. It is challenging too, and you can edit your very own park however you like. You can have multiple different islands with different cool buildings. NOTICE: My dream to make this game perfect would be to add the ARGENTINASAURUS. I am half Argentinian and it is my mums home country. Loads of my family live there and I love my country so much and it would mean the world to me to add it. Thanks, PERFECT game,

Great game and great delivery!

Fan of all five of the JP movies and have the 1st evolution game as well. JWE2 is brilliant; graphics, animations, return of Jeff Goldblum and the very close representation of the dinosaurs to the five films, both visual and sound, are incredible. Spinosaurus, Rex, raptors etc are so accurate to the movies. The Chaos Theory section is very good as well. Also, would like to thank Smyths for the quick delivery service. Very happy with the game and service.

Great game, maybe a little too in-depth.

My son plays any dinosaur game he can get his hands on. Jurassic Park/World movies and cartoon series are some of his favorite shows. This game didn't make the splash with him that I was expecting. He plays it, but not near as much as I had figured he would (he still plays the Jurassic World Evolution, and Ark and Ark Park). He says it's too much stuff to do. So I think it might be a little too in-depth as far as kids go. And I would assume that would be your target audience with Jurassic World. Other than that, it seems like a great game.

NOT FINISHED GAME UNPLAYABLE!!!

PURE GARBAGE!!! Has fake reviews online. This game is at least two years from being done. THIS IS ANOTHER CYPERPUNK all over again. You cannot see through forest that you are FORCED to place all over habitats and are unable to see what you are doing at all. The very first mission starts to guide you and then just gives up half way through leaving you alone to figure out how to upgrade scientists and your facilities. NOW INSTRUCTION AT ALL like the game is only half done.