Warpath: Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park lends itself to various game genres - Tomb Raider-style adventure, platformer (in the old days), first person shooter and sim (build your own Park). However, few people would have thought a Tekken-style one-on-one fighting game was appropriate.

Imagine....Tekken.....with DINOSAURS.

Thankfully, although the layout and rules of the game are the same as Tekken - and every fighting game since Street Fighter II - the dino battles are kept realistic. The giant thunder lizards themselves stomp around the screen, and attack each other with claws and jaws rather than fireballs and hurricane kicks. It's simple, and there are far less moves to learn than your average fighting game, but it's a lot of fun.

The graphics are some of the best ever produced on the PS1. The dinos look great as they furiously collide, roaring and snarling the whole time. The sound is equally impressive, with every snarl and slash perfectly and defeaningly backed up by crashes of thunder, cries for help and police sirens. There's an awesome orchestral soundtrack as well which creates a very exciting, epic and above all, Jurassic Park atmosphere.

JP fans will delight in both the amount of dinosaurs (14)and locations from the movies (why, 14 as well, my stars). Of course the fan-favourites Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptor are first on the list, although the Raptor in this case is a Mega Raptor, almost as big as the T-Rex itself. There's also a Spinosaurus which appeared in Jurassic Park III, but sadly no pteradons. The locations include the Vistor's Centre where the climax of the original movie took place, the rain-drenched paddock where the T-Rex memorably escaped from, outside the Raptor pen, and the deck of the crashed cargo ship from The Lost World. It's not just there to look good though - use the interactive locations to cause explosions, eat helpless humans, and even ram your opponent into an electric fence (that's gotta hurt, Gene!).

Overall, this is a game without much longevity but a huge amount of fun until it's completed. The excellent production values create an atmosphere few games can match and Jurassic Park fans will certainly enjoy it. Plus the chance to fight as a T-Rex is simply too cool to miss...

Warpath: Jurassic Park has to be one of the most innovative beat-ups ever. Instead of the usual martial arts or magic, fireballs and flashes of light for every punch, you have realistic dinosaurs feuding in a plausibly vicious manner. The novelty of fighting as dinosaurs gives Warpath an edge over, say, Tekken or the newer Dragonball Z fighters, that feature humans.

The graphics are incredible considering the age and platform. I didn't think the PSOne could manage the look this game features. The realism is fine, except for the scale. No matter how tremendous the dinosaur, no human (or sheep, or dog, or goat, or cow... you can eat practically anything) ever looks that small. I mean, an adult male Homo sapiens is bigger than a tyrannosaur's head, let alone its tooth! Instead of being intimidating, the exaggeration of their size instead seems ridiculous. Speaking of dinosaurs, there are tons of them that the movies never featured, including an extremely inaccurate (but VERY ferocious) reconstruction of Spinosaurus, a good Suchomimus and Albertosaurus. Many unlockable dinosaurs I only got to see by waiting for a demo to start up. It just takes too much time to unlock the majority of dinosaurs. Seriously, you need to finish one for unlockable no. 1, twice for no. 2, thrice for no. 3, and so on! There are something like 8 or 9 new dinosaurs to unlock, and the game doesn't allow you to save your progress. How can you play for 12 or 13 hours just to unlock a tremendously cool dinosaur, and have no energy left to play with it? That's just indecent!

If you never watch a demo and don't see all the cool dinosaurs that can be unlocked (they can be unlocked, at least by untiring robots), which means you don't know about them and will be perfectly happy to play with your default roster. The bloody, violent fights are replayable and fun, until you've played for three or four weeks, get bored, and only revisit it every now and then. I was disappointed upon finding that there is NO Create-A-Dino mode. It would be a pretty good idea to include such a feature if they decide to make a Warpath 2, or something for PS2 or other next-gen platforms. For today's gamers, who may not be totally happy no matter how many polygons developers throw at them, Warpath is probably doomed to gathering dust in an old, battered CD case.

Me, Being a fan of all of the Jurassic Park Movies, and always enjoy learning about Dinosaurs, I went ahead and brought Warpath: Jurassic Park.

I learn from Gamepro that this game wasn't that good.

They were wrong, I thought that Warpath: Jurassic Park is one of the best video games ever made.

The game stay true to the first two movies.

The game have most Meat-Eating Dinosaurs and only a couple of Plant-Eating Dinosaurs.

The Menus in the game are set up with scenes from Jurassic Park And The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

The sounds and music in the game are well done, and in One Player mode, when your dinosaur is about to fight another dinosaur, The Dinosaur enter the battle in different ways, depending on where you are fighting. Like when you in the visitor center, The dinosaur will come out of hiding from behind some boxes.

The fighting in the game is made to be a real fight between two animals. A lot of blood, Battle Scars, Claw Marks, And A lot of Roaring.

All in all a great fighting game with the use of the Jurassic Park Mania.

I give Warpath: Jurassic Park 9 out of 10.

Great Fighting Game Welcome To Jurassic Park!!!!!

My dad got this game for me when I was 8. It took me awhile to learn how to play it, but once I did, I loved it! The graphics, sound, and controls are very likable. The game allows you to play as dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park movies, and some dinos that wern't in the films.

However, some years ago, my copy just disappeared. This really bummed me out, but then, by some miracle, I found it on Amazon.ca and bought it for $40. I would pay $100 dollars to play this little known gem again!

Now that I've gotten my hands on it again, I'm never letting go!! Although, a sequel for PS2 or PSP would fool me into buying those otherwise cruddy systems. I'd love to take the JP3 spinosaurus out for a ride! Overall, this is a solid, well made fighting game. If you can find it, buy it. 29/30