Chaos Island Jurassic Park: The Lost World Developer: Dreamworks Interactive Publisher: Microsoft Category: Real Time Strategy System Req: P133, 16Mb Ram, 20Mb HD, Win95/NT4.0 Might look like: ? Date posted: 20 april '98 Written By: Bjorn - This game was tested on P166, 32mb Ram, Voodoo Graphics, Win95 - Screenshots of this review have unfortunately been deleted. Sorry for this inconvenience. A little Introduction Welcome to Chaos Island, where Dinosaurs rule and humans are just a few steps away from extinction. Here, on a remote island, the Jurassic Park Dinosaurs were bred, and, unbeknownst to the world, many have survived. you control a team of Gatherers and Scientists as you explore the Island, set up camp, and orgainze the tools and strategies you will need to survive among the Dinosaurs. As the story unfolds the stakes get higher. Hunters, who also inhabit the island, become more dangerous. Wild Dinosaurs begin attacking, and people are going to get hurt! It will take all your planning and survival skills to complete 12 increasingly dangerous missions. The Manual Manual of Chaos Island is well colored and it has some really nice looking background graphics. They don't use the boring and o-so-much normal font but they use different font types. It gives a better atmosphere before you play the game. Sometimes, pictures are being used for giving the gamer more information about a crucial thing. You might think that this is the first time that I didn't said much about a game-manual. Well, you're absolutely right! A good-looking manual where everything is well explained. Chaos on an Island! Well surprisingly enough when I looked at the back of Chaos Island's Box , I thought, again a so called Real Time Strategy game (which I basically adore) so this would be lots of fun. And in fact, Microsoft did manage to work something out with Dreamworks Interactive that looked sweet. Like everyone else I must agree that Microsoft is not one of the best developers when it comes in creating games. So my intention of getting a good game was not very high until I saw that MS is in fact just publishing it and only developed some little things in that game. The big part of developing was for that magical firm called 'DreamWorks Interactive'. So, is this game magical? Ehm. In this game you are placed with other teammates on a remote island, where dinousaurs rule and hunters are your enemies. This game is like every real time strategy game I ever played. You are thrown in a level, you need to collect and build some structures and away you go. It isn't really new to me (and not to you either) but what I do like is the voices that they used in this game. In fact every character is the same as in the new Jurassic Park movie: The Lost World. Play with movie-characters In the beginning of every level you mostly hear Doctor Hammond, played by Sir Richard Attenborough in the movie and in the game. You shall hear what your objectives are to complete this level successfully. You can even pick which teammate you want to start the level as long as you have enough points to recruit them. The storyline is not bad but not good either, if you are a Jurassic Park fan you will love this game, if not well there are more other better strategy games out there. But I must say, it plays very well, especially when you know that can play with all types of Dinosaurs (mentioned in detail later). There are 12 levels to complete and in about 5 or 6 hours you can play this game out so game duration is not prior here. You can play with Jeff Goldblum as Doctor Ian Malcolm, a mathemathician or Sarah Harding, an animal behaviorist or other teammates which appeared in the movie. Even Sir Richard Attenborough as Doctor Hammond is present. So when you play with Doctor Malcolm you really hear his voice (I mean Goldblums voice). There are absolutely No other actors that are dubbing the voices. And that is just great. This is very innovative in one way but on the other hand after a while it becomes a bit repetitive because you always hear the same sentences over and over again. It may be good for some hours but after that you will get really depressed(?) after hearing the same sentences over and over again. (Did I mentioned that already?) But what the heck, fans of the actors & actrices of this game/movie will love to hear the original voices over and over. Next Page Up Previous Page If you want to review your favorite game, or if you work with a computer game company and want your products reviewing, mail info@playdevil.com. All contributions are welcome. 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