Rewriting my review as I've now 100%'d the game (with 0 deaths).

I had been super psyched for this game. I'm a massive Jurassic Park fan, and having enjoyed Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, Jurassic Park: Trespasser, Jurassic Park III: Danger Zone! and LEGO Jurassic World, I was ready to take on a more cinematic experience that would hopefully go deeper into the Island and its problems.

I was so terribly wrong to be excited.

This was a painful, brutal experience. From retconing the official canon and the classic messages of the books/movies, to poorly constructed gameplay and bad design choices, this abysmal experience is not for the faint of heart.

Jurassic Park: The Game is an example of game that does QTE-gameplay poorly. The reaction times are wildly inconsistent, and often you'll find that the game wildly changes between requiring light-speed reflexes and dinosaur-slow presses. The UI Prompts which tell you what to press do not line up with whatever is going on behind them, and often you'll be pressing directional keys that have no relevance to the action the character is performing, which means that it's almost impossible to guess what to press next and makes the game feel random and not skill-based. As well as this, the QTE-chains have no visual hints for the next button press in the queue, so in order to obtain the Gold rankings needed for 100% completion (or to just keep your character alive) you'll either need to keep practising by reloading your previous checking (simply press "Load Game" in the Pause Menu) or just get damn lucky with your guesses to get it flawless.

In one of the final QTE sequences of the game, you're required to mash a button beyond the limits of human strength and stamina; as it turns out (EVEN RUNNING ON A GTX 980!!!) the game lags so bad at this point that it isn't able to grab your input as often as is required, so it assumes you're mashing the button slower than you really are. You'll need to lower all your graphics settings to pass this stage for flawless achievement and the Gold ranking.

The problems in this game's technical execution are compounded by its inane ranking system which I've been making mentions to above; each stage of every episode is ranked between Bronze, Silver and Gold based on how well you do during a QTE sequence (if applicable, as some parts are dialogue/investigation only and should automatically grant gold). In some stages, you can get away with a few slip-ups, while others require every single QTE press to be perfect. Inconsistency is this game's major pitfall, and it makes playing the game frustrating as you have no way to know if what you're doing is going to absolutely work or not. The game makes sure to put the ranking directly in your face for the entirety of the sequence, and in some cases it will auto-save a checkpoint right as you fail a QTE, essentially screwing you over if you wish to obtain Gold on your first try.

With that in mind, it's recommended that you get Gold rank on every stage on your first go, as attempting to replay a specific stage from the main menu will not save checkpoints, meaning you'll need to restart the entire stage if you continually mess-up.

I've focused on the gameplay, but it's not the only place that has major issues. For a game relying on the strength of its storytelling and characterisation; many of the characters are 2D and unlikable, and will often do stupid things that go completely against their character, the dialogue was written by a three year old having a tantrum, the voice acting is often stiff and lifeless and the animations can end up looking like bad animatronics.

To spare myself further pain and misery from recalling my experiences, let me finish with this; Telltale Games have made fantastic games, such as the Sam & Max franchise, The Wolf Among Us and Tales from the Borderlands. Those games do everything this game tried to do MUCH better, and you'll enjoy them far more.

Only buy this game if you're a serious achievement-♥♥♥♥♥ who is also a glutton for punishment.

Rewriting my review as I've now 100%'d the game (with 0 deaths). I had been super psyched for this game. I'm a massive Jurassic Park fan, and having enjoyed Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, Jurassic Park: Trespasser, Jurassic Park III: Danger Zone! and LEGO Jurassic World, I was ready to take on a more cinematic experience that would hopefully go deeper into the Island and its problems. I was so terribly wrong to be excited. This was a painful, brutal experience. From retconing the official canon and the classic messages of the books/movies, to poorly constructed gameplay and bad design choices, this abysmal experience is not for the faint of heart. Jurassic Park: The Game is an example of game that does QTE-gameplay poorly. The reaction times are wildly inconsistent, and often you'll find that the game wildly changes between requiring light-speed reflexes and dinosaur-slow presses. The UI Prompts which tell you what to press do not line up with whatever is going on behind them, and often you'll be pressing directional keys that have no relevance to the action the character is performing, which means that it's almost impossible to guess what to press next and makes the game feel random and not skill-based. As well as this, the QTE-chains have no visual hints for the next button press in the queue, so in order to obtain the Gold rankings needed for 100% completion (or to just keep your character alive) you'll either need to keep practising by reloading your previous checking (simply press "Load Game" in the Pause Menu) or just get damn lucky with your guesses to get it flawless. In one of the final QTE sequences of the game, you're required to mash a button beyond the limits of human strength and stamina; as it turns out (EVEN RUNNING ON A GTX 980!!!) the game lags so bad at this point that it isn't able to grab your input as often as is required, so it assumes you're mashing the button slower than you really are. You'll need to lower all your graphics settings to pass this stage for flawless achievement and the Gold ranking. The problems in this game's technical execution are compounded by its inane ranking system which I've been making mentions to above; each stage of every episode is ranked between Bronze, Silver and Gold based on how well you do during a QTE sequence (if applicable, as some parts are dialogue/investigation only and should automatically grant gold). In some stages, you can get away with a few slip-ups, while others require every single QTE press to be perfect. Inconsistency is this game's major pitfall, and it makes playing the game frustrating as you have no way to know if what you're doing is going to absolutely work or not. The game makes sure to put the ranking directly in your face for the entirety of the sequence, and in some cases it will auto-save a checkpoint right as you fail a QTE, essentially screwing you over if you wish to obtain Gold on your first try. With that in mind, it's recommended that you get Gold rank on every stage on your first go, as attempting to replay a specific stage from the main menu will not save checkpoints, meaning you'll need to restart the entire stage if you continually mess-up. I've focused on the gameplay, but it's not the only place that has major issues. For a game relying on the strength of its storytelling and characterisation; many of the characters are 2D and unlikable, and will often do stupid things that go completely against their character, the dialogue was written by a three year old having a tantrum, the voice acting is often stiff and lifeless and the animations can end up looking like bad animatronics. To spare myself further pain and misery from recalling my experiences, let me finish with this; Telltale Games have made fantastic games, such as the Sam & Max franchise, The Wolf Among Us and Tales from the Borderlands. Those games do everything this game tried to do MUCH better, and you'll enjoy them far more. Only buy this game if you're a serious achievement-whore who is also a glutton for punishment.