Telltale's Jurassic Park would have been a great film, but it was a poor game.

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The fourth Jurassic Park film has just come out, a full 22 years after the original 1993 Steven Spielberg masterpiece. And why not? The original film was a classic with its awe-inspiring dinosaurs, all hungry toothy grins and almost comically arrogant eye movements; an incredible score by John Williams that's equal parts wondrous, exciting and sentimental; multi-faceted characters whose ecological concerns conflict with their own inner child that drove them to study dinosaurs in the first place; and its rich setting, Isla Nublar, a comic concoction of untamed jungle choked by corporate interests in a soulless bid to appeal to the masses.
Telltale's rendition of Jurassic Park: The Game contains all of these and more. It's smartly written with a deep, varied cast, an engaging plot, characterful beasts and more. It's also not a very good video game.
But it was an important one. It took Telltale Games, a studio known for comedic point-and-click adventures, into the realm of drama - albeit one where its cast spends half of its time running from dinosaurs - and paved the way for its excellent follow-ups that have included The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, and Tales from the Borderland.
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