Chaos Island: The Lost World - Jurassic Park (1997)
Genres:Strategy, Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Themes:Science fiction
Story:From Site B to San Diego, Chaos Island provides real-time strategy gameplay through the Jurassic Park universe.
This was the game that first introduced me to the RTS genre. The voice acting gave this game a quirky light-hearted vibe. Each level had you taking your human characters scavenging supplies and stealing dinosaur eggs that you could hatch into controllable dinosaur units. You can unlock a bonus level where you control one T-Rex and do as much devastation to San Diago as possible. With each difficulty-setting you have extra levels to try out at the end of the game's campaign. This game was way more fun than any movie tie-in game should be.
This game came from a time where licensed games had a higher than average chance of being good. It was also from a time when the RTS genre had more variety. Sure, you're still doing base building and gathering supplies, but that's not the focus of the game.
You also didn't often have games that would pay for the entire movie cast to voice their characters. Maybe things were different in the 90s and it didn't take long to record 45 minutes of dialogue. I guess what I'm trying to say is that this was a unique game from a unique period of gaming and it has been abandonware for almost 20 years. Time for it to emerge from the abandonware sites and get some kind of restoration and revitalization,
Amazing game with the real cast providing voice work. A really great RTS that felt really unique given the scenario. I would love to be able to add this one to the collection.
The basics are easy to pick up but the fun of building a velociraptor fleet or rampaging through a city with a T-Rex can't be beat!
Solid number of the original cast lent their voices as well!
THIS GAME! I love this. It's not only a time capsule of the time it came out, but also so enjoyably simple. I would buy this in a heartbeat and keep my eyes watching for the old school games from here on.
My first computer was a Gateway 2000 with a 200mhz Pentium 2, a massive family gift for Christmas when I was very young. Packed in one of the three or four boxes was a binder full of CDs, one of which was Chaos Island. I had never heard of an RTS, but I had seen the associated movie and loved it - still do. It took me the better part of a year to get through it - again, Command and Conquer was a glint on a far horizon - but I loved chipping away it after school for several months in between levels of Dark Forces and trying to figure out that weird Goosebumps FPS that also came with the computer.
I would love to see this one available so I could point people to it as my first RTS, a vital piece of my PC gaming history which was mostly just more Star Wars at the time. And still is.
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Star Wars games were pretty much everything else I did on my first computer. But this one is so good.
This is one of the very first games I became 'obsessed' with as a kid. I spent many, many hours playing and replaying it over and over. I remember collecting every single dinosaur egg in the game and saving as many as I could for the final level. I hatched them all and had a massive herd of ~20 dinosaurs. I would send all of them to take out an enemy, but they would blockade themselves because there were too many of them to get through the most direct route on the map. So some of them would end up taking the craziest routes to get to the enemy target. Great way to take care of the fog of war game mechanic!
I would buy this game immediately if it was available on GOG!
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