I’ve been playing a decent amount of Jurassic World Evolution 2, and I think it’s a pretty great game. I’m not all the way through the campaign yet, but it’s very much more of what you got in the first game, but with a big difference. This time around, you get to be part of the world’s solution, not the problem. In the first game, you were still making dinosaurs for profit, while in this game, you’re rescuing dinosaurs and giving them natural enclosures where they can thrive. It’s such a refreshing outlook, and one that reflects the attitudes that most fans of the Jurassic Park franchise probably have.
Up until now, the Jurassic Park management games have all revolved around you building a park, making money, and getting five stars. None of it has felt like you’re helping the world. Instead, you’re just setting it all up for another disaster. No one ever seems to learn in this universe, that is until Jurassic World came along. Now, in Jurassic World Evolution 2, you aren’t making more dinosaurs, at least not in the campaign. Instead of researching dinosaur DNA from fossils, you’re capturing the ones that have been released into the wild.
Capturing dinosaurs and looking after them feels much better than creating them for greed. Sure, the company you work for is making money from your efforts, but they’re getting cash to help fund dinosaur capturing efforts, not put more dinosaurs into the world. I love this idea because it’s what I’ve thought someone should have been doing since Jurassic Park. Dinosaurs are lose, they’re out there and they’re dangerous. Someone needs to step in to care for them, but only bad companies with ideas over profit have the power to do so.
I love the change in perspective that Frontier has put in this game. It makes everything feel a lot fresher, even if you have to get your head around the money-making thing once again. There are, of course, multiple modes for the greedier players who like the classic format, but for environmental enthusiasts like myself, this is perfect.
