Jurassic Park: Trespasser
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| Developer(s) | DreamWorks Interactive |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Designer(s) | Seamus Blackley |
| Composer(s) | Bill Brown |
| Series | Jurassic Park |
| Engine | Trespasser engine |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | October 28, 1998 |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, first-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 56.64% |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| AllGame |   |
| CVG | 1/10 |
| Edge | 2/10 |
| GamePro | |
| Game Revolution | B- |
| GameSpot | 3.9/10 |
| IGN | 4.7/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | 62% |
| PC Zone | 70% |
| The Cincinnati Enquirer | |
Trespasser is a video game released in 1998 for Microsoft Windows. The game was billed as a "digital sequel" to the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, on which it is based. The player assumes the role of Anne who is the sole survivor of a plane crash on InGen's "Site B" one year after the events of The Lost World: Jurassic Park. With a fractured arm and only her wits about her, Anne must escape the remote island by solving puzzles and evading dangerous dinosaurs.
The game is noted for the involvement of the film's director, Steven Spielberg, and award-winning British actors Richard Attenborough and Minnie Driver. Trespasser's game engine was advanced for its time and required a fast and powerful computer to adequately display the game's detailed graphics without pixelation artifacts. The ambitious game disappointed many reviewers and has been mocked as "...the worst game of 1998." It is believed this was caused by rushing the game's development to reach the preset release date and the game being too overly ambitious and advanced for its time.
The game opens with John Hammond reading an excerpt from his memoirs. Hammond is a rich industrialist who used his wealth to assemble a scientific team that cloned dinosaurs. Intent on creating an amusement park showcasing his biological attractions, Hammond's park ultimately fails when the dinosaurs escape. While Jurassic Park was built on Isla Nublar, off the coast of Costa Rica, the animals were raised at an alternate location, Isla Sorna, also named "Site B".Trespasser takes place a year after the events of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, where the general public has learned about the existence of Jurassic Park.
The game begins in a dark apartment, where mail is piling up and a phone rings. When it goes to voice-mail, a woman named Jill leaves a message, expressing amazement that Anne (the apartment's resident) had actually gone ahead on a trip to the tropics. The message closes with Jill's comment, "I thought you HATED flying." The scene changes to an unseen person closing and bolting an airplane bathroom door and then the sounds of retching can be heard. The plane suddenly bucks and an apparent malfunction occurs and the plane crashes.
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