Jurassic: The Hunted

Developer(s) Cauldron HQ
Publisher(s) Activision
Engine CloakNT
Platform(s) PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
Release date(s)
  • NA November 3, 2009
Genre(s) First-person shooter

Jurassic: The Hunted (previously known as Jurassic Hunter and Jurassic: The Hunter) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Cauldron HQ and published by Activision. The game was announced on October 16, 2009.[1] The game was released on November 3, 2009 for the Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 consoles. Jurassic: The Hunted received mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

The player controls former Navy SEAL Craig Dylan as he accompanies his war buddy Armando "Rock" Depiedra, and scientist Sabrina Sayrus to the Bermuda Triangle searching for Sabrina's father, James Sayrus. The trio are forced to jump out of the plane after a vortex interferes with the ship.They all jump into different vortexes,each in a different place in the Bermuda.Dylan becomes separated from them and must trek across the island, past a beached cargo ship and volcano, before finding a fort maintained by the lost Dr. Sayrus, Sabrina's father who she organized the trip to find, and Rock, who was dropped on the island years before Dylan and is now past his prime. Dr. Sayrus tells Dylan of an impending disaster and tells him to find a Temporal Vortex Engine that will allow them to return to their own time, located in a German submarine in a cave. Dylan finds the TVE and tries to return to camp, running into Sabrina again, who is being chased by a Spinosaurus she calls "Spike." A Tyrannosaurus comes,clashes with the Spinosaurus,drawing first blood. But it died after it had its neck snapped by Spike's claws,as this is a Jurassic Park 3 reference. They manage to escape and return to the fort, only to learn that the uranium battery that powers the TVE no longer works. Dylan recovers another battery from a drone that apparently arrived on the island via a temporal vortex from the future and returns to camp again, but Spike apparently followed him and tries to kill them. Dylan fights off Spike while Dr. Sayrus fixes the TVE and allows Dylan and Sabrina to escape just as Spike breaks in while he and Rock stay behind to hold him off. Dylan and Sabrina emerge on a sandy beach and wonder what to do just before another portal opens up, and Dr. Sayrus and Rock emerge on the repaired submarine one year after Dylan and Sabrina returned, with an apparently dead Spike tied to the hull. As the game ends, Spike's eye opens up, leaving the story unresolved.

Gameplay

Combat encounters include arena style fights, fortification sieges, survival modes and boss battles. Adrenaline bursts give you an edge – this gameplay feature allows the player to visualize and then target an opponent’s weak point such as the heart, lungs, brain, ribcage, backbone, liver, and intestines in slow motion.[2]

Creatures

Development

The project was kept largely under wraps until Activision issued a press release advertising the game.

Reception

IGN gave the PlayStation 2 version a 6.5 out of 10, and criticized the game for its large number of Velociraptor enemies: "Yes, they were scary in Jurassic Park, but after blasting through your fourth pack of raptors, it simply becomes a nuisance. You couldn't throw in a rampaging stegosaurus to switch things up?" IGN also criticized the game's "muddy" textures and "generic" explosions, but praised its "Survivor" mode, and referred to its "Cheesy B-movie dialogue" as "amusing".[3]

Nintendo World Report gave the Wii version a 5 out of 10 and wrote "even though it's initially a lot of fun, Jurassic: The Hunted gets bogged down by technical problems, and repetitious missions and dinosaur types. [...] there are entirely too many raptors interspersed by the occasional badly-rendered Jurassic Park-style dilophosaur. Big bossasaurs are few and far in between, and when they do appear, they're so overpowered that it's hard to enjoy the battle. [...] 90 percent of your foes [...] end up being raptors. This gets pretty boring." Nintendo World Report also criticized the game's "terrible" graphics and wrote that "many dinosaurs bizarrely teleport into the environment right in front of you."[4]

References

  1. ↑ Prehistoric Survival Unleashed in Activision's upcoming Jurassic: The Hunted
  2. ↑ Jurassic: The Hunted Gameplay Summary
  3. ↑ Haynes, Jeff (November 3, 2009). "Jurassic: The Hunted Review (PS2)". IGN. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ Miller, Zachary (December 18, 2009). "Jurassic: The Hunted Review (Wii)". Nintendo World Report. Retrieved March 12, 2015.

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