The third game in the officially licensed dinosaur park management series continues the global dinosaur parks and wildlife preserves of the second game, and adds new dinosaur breeding and juvenile dinos.
Easy to Play
Exceptional Learning
Great Graphics/Art
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Story & Themes
Set after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, Jurassic World Evolution 3 continues the broader concept from the second game (and the end of Fallen Kingdom): that dinosaurs are now part of our regular ecosystem around the world.
The players job is to manage various parks and wildlife preserves around the world, through the campaign, challenge modes, or open-ended sandbox.
The campaign includes several different parks and venues that need fixing and improving. Players must balance their profits and expenses while keeping an eye toward their dinosaurs' needs and comfort — as well as the visitors.
The series is beloved for its advanced animal AI (seen also in Frontier's other park sim series, Planet Zoo). Dinosaurs exhibit realistic behaviors and modeling, including breeding, fighting, exploring, and eating. Players must work to maintain each species' ideal habitats, including herd size and possible co-habitats.
As a park management sim, Jurassic World Evolution errs on the easier side, with more forgiving income and park ratings. The initial campaign parks also do a solid job teaching players how to research, find, and analyze fossils, as well as hatch dinosaurs and build critical structures and enclosures.
Save Points
The game autosaves periodically, and players can save any time.
Difficulty
Players must be familiar operating a free 3D camera to zoom around their park. The menus are logically arranged to make it easy to access different buildings, enclosures, or amenities. Many of the game's objectives and goals can occur at the player's pace, though some dangerous situations (like tranquilizing escaping raptors) can be stressful.
The campaign offers a gradual increase in goals, from learning how to breed, cure, and modify dinosaurs, while Challenge mode features parks with specific limitations or objectives, such as tight building conditions, no dino breeding, or limited finances.
Heads Up!
Violence Carnivore dinosaurs can attack and even eat other dinosaurs, though much of that can be prevented if they're kept to their own species and maintain a high comfort level. Dinosaurs can escape and injure and eat guests (due to discomfort, or fences breaking down), with the violence level about on par with the films.
Scary Imagery Large carnivores chasing and eating people can be frightening, though nothing that the Jurassic Park/World films haven't already shown.
Consumerism Players can purchase additional dinosaurs, skins, and missions through DLC expansions, and the game reminds you of additional purchase options at the start menu.
Conversation Starters
- Do you enjoy the new dinosaur breeding?
- What are your favorite dinosaurs to include in your parks?
- Have you finished the campaign? Do you like trying Challenge mode, or creating your own park in Sandbox?
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