Jurassic Park: Every Video Game Ranked Worst To Best

8. Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis - Vivendi Universal Games (2003): PlayStation 2/ XBox/ PC

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By the time Operation Genesis came on the scene in 2003, the Jurassic Park movie franchise had simmered down considerably and developers were looking to do something different with the source material. What resulted was a massive construction and management simulation game.

If you are the type of player who always felt you had more in common with InGen than characters like Dr. Grant or Ian Malcom, Operation Genesis was the game you were waiting for. It played like a cross between Sim Theme Park and Zoo Tycoon, with rewards coming in the form of a smoothly running park and happy tourists. Also, alive tourists.

You might think resource management doesn't sound all that exciting but this is worlds better than a Jurassic Park themed Minecraft mod.

Contributor

Jason Russell has been working in video game journalism since the early 1990s before the internet existed, the term "fanzine" had meaning and sailors still debated as to whether or not the earth was flat. The first time. More recently he has been the guy responsible for the Retrospective column for Old School Gamer Magazine, pens up a Game Skinny column on a plethora of video game topics. He's somehow managed to author nine novels, writes and runs the blog CG Movie Review, is co-founder of the science fiction publishing house Starry Eyed Press, and sometimes, when the planets align and the caffeine has fully left his system, it's rumored he sleeps.