9 Pioneering Video Games EVERYONE Forgets
7. Trespasser
Just like its film series counterpart, Jurassic Park video games are routinely hit or miss, to say the least. While 1998’s Trespasser FPS – which acts as a canonical sequel to 1997’s The Lost World movie – generally falls into the latter category, its numerous novelties inspired many subsequent games.
Chiefly, it helped pioneer ragdoll physics, a form of procedural animation that sees objects and characters flailing around in hilariously cartoonish ways. Since then, the technique has been employed in both top-tier titles (including the Grand Theft Auto, Skate, and Uncharted franchises) and purposefully broken yet fun messes (including the Goat Simulator and Octodad franchises).
Plus, its distinctive control scheme influenced Surgeon Simulator 2013; its outdoor environments predated those of Halo, Far Cry, Dinosaur Hunting, and Crysis; and its use of voiceover storytelling likely influenced Doom 3.
You could even say that its method of rending faraway 3D objects in 2D until the player gets reasonably close to them was cutting-edge.