Almost thirty years after the release of the original film and video game, the Jurassic Park franchise continues to thrill fans through new releases, with a film slated for release in June 2022.
The film arrives on the back of the video game Jurassic World Evolution 2, which was released in 2021 and features four game modes that give players the choice of running a responsible dinosaur park or unleashing dinosaur chaos. Campaign mode, which is the story mode of the game; chaos theory, which allows players to manage various ‘what if’ scenarios; sandbox, where players have the opportunity to create a dinosaur park, and challenge mode, which allows players to build and manage a dinosaur park through a series of challenges of increasing difficulty.
Jurassic Park franchise innovations
The original video game was released in 1993 and has been followed by countless reboots over the years. Since 2020, there have been three Jurassic World releases: Jurassic World Evolution: Complete Edition, Jurassic World Aftermath and now Jurassic World Evolution 2.
We saw recently the extent of the innovations created through Jurassic World Evolution 2 when a gamer used the game and its mods to recreate the popular 1999 BBC documentary Walking with Dinosaurs.
The popularity of the Jurassic Park franchise has also led to innovations in other areas of the entertainment industry. In the iGaming sector, there are officially branded Jurassic Park and Jurassic World slots. For interested players, here’s a list of the best sites where you can play titles such as the Jurassic World™: Raptor Riches slot, which features the Indoraptor, the hybrid dinosaur created by Dr Henry Wu, and the Jurassic Park™ slot, which features popular characters from the original film, alongside dinosaurs such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor and Triceratops.
Evidently, the popularity of the franchise has led to the creation of successful innovations.
The Jurassic franchise film trilogies
The original Jurassic Park film was released in 1993 and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film starred Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough and was based on the novel by Michael Crichton, who co-wrote the screenplay. This was followed by The Lost World: Jurassic Park in 1997 and Jurassic Park III in 2001.
14 years later came the first film in the Jurassic World trilogy, followed by Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in 2018. Now fans of the franchise are eagerly awaiting the release of Jurassic World Dominion on 10 June 2022, which will see Neill, Dern and Goldblum reprise their roles alongside Chris Pratt. Pratt recently upset fans when he claimed the film will be the final instalment of the franchise. Nevertheless, if the film is a box office hit, further reboots would certainly be expected.
The Jurassic franchise remains extremely popular almost thirty years after the original film and video games were released. While this may be the final film in the franchise, there is plenty of scope for the video game franchise to develop further in the future.
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