There are so many things wrong with this game. If you played the first game and liked to make your park look good and decorate the enclosure and all of that well you’re going to absolutely hate this one.
But there is a lot of issues with this game. And they got rid of so much stuff from the first game and made so many changes that just ruined the game. The game is terrible compared to the first and was a waste of money.
It is a huge grind. They actually got rid of a ton of scenery items that were in the last game and there were a good amount in the last game. The last game had trees and rocks. You could use textures and I make your enclosure look awesome and going to detail but in this game the textures now count towards comfort of your dinosaurs.
And they change the colorings of the textures as well. so sand just looks like dirt so you can spend time trying to make your enclosure look good and then have to cover half of it with sand depending on that dinosaurs.
Depending on the area you go to will vary on the types of rocks you get and the types of forest you get. The last game has variety This game doesnt. Your herbivore enclosures now need to have plants in them to keep themselves sustaining.
These plants are like complete ground coverage and there are various plants. That don’t match anything and just looks terrible. The trees and nuts and fruit and all that stuff It takes over forest areas.
Ground foliage literally deletes tall trees because apparently grass isn’t growing under trees. A lot of dinos needed good amount of open space and trying to get a balance from deleting this and adding that and spending forever doing it is ridiculous.
And because they completely removed the tree sceneries that were there in the first game. You pretty much just get this ugly chaotic enclosure full of random things that don’t match anything whatsoever and just looks terrible.
But if you don’t care about that then it’s not really a problem. I didn’t like my punk to look bad I’d like them to look appealing Well they certainly look bad in this game and you have no choice. I don’t know what genius decided that the only scenery that you can put in the game for the environment is a whole bunch of rocks but that’s ridiculous.
Also you can’t put sauropods in with brontosaurus and the like. They don’t get along. Seriously? That doesn’t even make sense. Oh and non-watered dinos need a certain amount of water now. So having a pond of water or a lake or something might not be enough so you can have your enclosure and then they’ll get mad because they don’t want to you know walk across the other side of the enclosure to drink water and demand more of it.
Oh the territory between dinos is now circled around each dinosaur and moves with the dinosaur. Your ranger stations now need to go to these poles to inspect your dinos because you don’t just know if they’re sick or whatever No you have to have your rangers inspect each dinosaur to find out what they want.
Which is really annoying when you drop your dinos down and you want to make their enclosure the best you can except you don’t know If it’s going to work because you have to wait for your rangers to inspect the dinosaurs and tell you.
And if they’re not fast enough then you are just going to go ahead and let the dinosaurs bust out of the fence unless of course you have the money to train them all and wait. The last games aviaries you couldn’t decorate but they had cool cliffs and it looked really nice inside of them.
Now you have to decorate yourself which leaves you able to put a whole bunch of water and a couple rocks and one tiny little section of forest that’s it. It just looks sad. A The scenery lets you choose from about 20 different rocks and you still cannot stack them and they still cannot touch.
The pretty trees we got in the last game are gone. If you remember the scenery tab in the last game there were cool trees you could put in. Not anymore they completely remove them from the game! But there’s potted plants now.
Oh and the one main forest matches the area you’re in. So if you’re in Pennsylvania then you’re trees will be like fall maple trees or something but the ground food for your herbivores don’t change so you can be in a wintry area and all your plants are from a swamp.
Which looks ridiculous. The only good things about this game is when you go to hatch dinosaurs you get a clutch of eggs to choose from instead of having to do one at a time And you can air lift them directly from the hatchery.
There’s also a pause and fast forward button. And there’s also a day and night cycle. That’s the improvements of the game that’s it. You have scientists now that you have to pay for everything literally they will get tired and you will have to pay for them to sleep.
$70k+ to have them rest. And you have to pay for a specific building for them to do so. Why am I paying them to sleep?? There’s also different things that you have to do that pop up in the game. Like you’ll get a screen that pops up and says your manager is sick for the day so hire a replacement for $200,000 or have a scientists take over the daybfor half the cost.
Except there’s problems with each of them so like paying the $200,000 will increase your public appeal but having a scientist do it Well lower the public opinion of you by 20% or whatever. One popped up with your employee was on vacation and injured themselves and had to go to the hospital pay their medical bills for $500,000 or don’t and your public opinion of your park will go down 25%.
There is so much going on in this game. And there’s so much grind for you to unlock certain things you have to do this mode and then you have to do that mode and there’s so many different levels. You have to unlock every single itty bitty thing in this game and you have to play different modes to do it.
Seriously you have to unlock different path sizes. The very little amount of things in this game you can unlock I believe expensive in time-consuming to unlock. The campaign is also a joke by the way hands down the worst campaign I’ve ever played in any game.
You don’t get a tutorial on half of things to use in the game by the way and you just got to figure it out. Now if it was exactly like the last game that wouldn’t be an issue except It’s very different.
For them to delete so many scenery items from the last game and change the texture colors and make all these different changes it literally just broke the game. Unless You like your enclosures to just look terrible and don’t care I guess then the enclosures don’t matter.
I just never liked my park to look bad but it has to in this game. Somehow this game got better reviews in the last one and there’s absolutely no reason for that This game is worse than the first one by far.
I’m assuming a lot of these reviews are from people that bought this game for their children that don’t really know the mechanics and the children like it Because there’s dinosaurs in it. A lot of the reviews you see are:” I got this for my kid and they like the game here’s five stars.
” You’re not seeing in-depth reviews on the game. You can paint store buildings and you have some potted plants to put out. The only scenery items you can really get are rocks seriously there are 20 rocks.
And they vary from different types of location. I don’t know It’s like they listened to a select group of fans from the last game and deleted what this fan didn’t like and added with this fan wanted.
What’s just cause chaos and completely destroyed game quality in my opinion. I don’t recommend this game to anyone. And frankly doesn’t make sense they took so much out of the last game changed everything to make this huge grind game with virtually zero improvements.
I have never been more disappointed in any game in my life. I had huge expectations with this game but I didn’t expect a second game to come out that’s worse than the first game by far. This game is also still incredibly expensive.
If you want this game seriously do not spend more than $15 on it and that’s being generous on the $15. This game is not worth the price tag that it has at all. Frankly I wouldn’t spend more than 10 bucks on this game.
This game is a huge disappointment to me and well my friends that also played the last game were pretty shocked at the changes. Unfortunately I don’t have a gaming PC or else I just buy prehistoric kingdom and have an epic dinosaur game.
But I’m stuck with console. Seriously do not waste your money on this. Oh also in this game you no longer have power stations you have generators. Which eliminated the power lines except now you have to pay for fuel which is like a half a million dollars.
And it goes fast and you need a crap ton of generators out to power your Park because it only covers a little bit of area around it. This game was just terrible. So hopefully my detailed review helps a few people Make the right choice I’m not buying this game.
Or at least wait until it’s on sale for $15. Don’t waste your money on it It’s not worth it. The previous game blows this one out of the water and it is way cheaper.