Jurassic Park 3 Danger Zone

That's the concept behind Jurassic Park III: Danger Zone, a Jurassic Park-themed board game for your computer. Designed for one or two players, ages 7 and older, the board game style will be familiar to nearly anyone who has ever played Monopoly or Sorry! (or more recently, Mario Party).

Kids under age 10 will probably enjoy the variety of challenges and obstacles in the game. Challenges generally involve either tests of dinosaur knowledge or arcade-style mini-games like sneaking past a Tyrannosaurus, battling with raptors, or shooting dinosaurs with DNA darts on a firing range.

Unfortunately, older kids and adults might not be as keen on it. After a couple of games many of the challenges get repetitive, and the sheer randomness of some parts of the game will bore adults far faster than kids. Younger kids probably won't be put off by this, but parents playing along will have to appreciate the quality time with their children more than the game itself.

Even though our test computer was beyond recommended minimums, lag times reigned before and after each mini-game. The intro animations were fun the first few times, but long. You can click to skip them, but then the screen freezes while the game loads from the CD. This amounts to spending a lot of time clicking through repetitive screens, then waiting a few seconds--click, wait, click, wait. This gets old by the third or fourth time you play a particular mini-game.

Still, if your kid is between ages 7 and 10 and crazy about Jurassic Park, he or she will probably want to spend a lot of time with this game. Parents might be less entranced after a couple of times around, but the single-player version will keep your dino-nut busy for hours. --Jeff Quick

Amazon.com Product Description
In Jurassic Park III: Danger Zone, a violent earthquake has rocked Jurassic Park, nearly destroying the entire supply of dinosaur DNA. Dinosaurs will go extinct again unless you jump in your four-by-four SUV and complete 15 action-packed missions. You will jump deep ravines, dodge stampeding stegosaurs, decode electric fences, round upraptors, and avoid bubbling tar pits. Features startlingly realisticgraphics and dozens of vividly rendered dinosaurs.

Pros:
Graphics.
Storyline.
Great 2-player

Cons:
Lack of exitement.
Lousy dino replications.
Storyline.
Lousy 1-player

The AI is appaling. "looks like you are stuck in the mud." is one example. you can't herd velociraptors, so why make it a square on this virtual game board? how can someone survive being eaten by a T-Rex? in this you can survive falling of a cliff from 200' into a waterfall without a bruise.


Drive INTO Jurassic Park !   June 30, 2003
Kathleen Reeves (Bellmawr, NJ United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Jurassic Park Danger Zone is great! It is also fun! In Jurassic Park Danger Zone you have to collect 4 units of Dinosaur DNA. you get to choose witch Dinosaur`s DNA you want to collect.you can collect T-rex,Spinosaurus,Velociraptors,Compsognathus,
Brachiosaurus,Triceratops,Stegosaurus,and Pteranodons DNA. You also can print out dinosaur cards.


I love this game!!   October 13, 2002
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I know this game is geared towards younger people, but as a 35 year old working woman I find it great to play a game where I can get lost in the action. I can play this game for hours! I like to play two dino defenders at a time because it seems like a lot more fun. This is a great game, I hope everyone who plays it has a good time as I do when I play.