Jurassic Park: Every Video Game Ranked Worst To Best

12. Jurassic Park III: Dino Defender - Knowledge Adventure (2001): PC/ Mac

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Knowledge Adventure

On paper, Dino Defender sounds rather interesting. It's a 2D side-scrolling romp through Jurassic Park where the player dons a cybernetic exoskeleton and must rely upon bombs and gadgets to trap all of the escaped dinos on the island.

Of course, the first time you see your character, you immediately start to wonder if you didn't boot up the wrong game. You're cartoony, blue-helmeted astronaut that fits in with the setting as well as a bright yellow Ford Explorer.

The play doesn't commit any major faux pas so much as it is rather generic in action, involves a story that has nearly nothing to do with any of the films, and was forgotten about almost instantly upon release. It would not, however, be the last we'd hear from Knowledge Adventure.

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.