Jurassic Park The Game is a cinematic adventure divided into four-episodes. It is full of Quick-Time-Events with a story that smartly expands on that of the movie.
The events of Jurassic Park The Game run parallel to those of the first film, starting soon after Dennis Nedry’s unfortunate run-in with the dilophosaurus. While he is out of the picture before the game begins, his can of Barbasol, loaded with dinosaur embryos, plays a major role in the game. Jurassic Park The Game follows a group of survivors left on the island after having missed the evacuation boat during the storm that knocked out the power in the park. These include the park's veterinarian and his visiting daughter, a jilted geneticist who cares more about dinosaurs than people, the mysterious woman sent to steal dinosaur embryos and a few mercenaries to rescue the stragglers.
Each of the characters has a backstory that the player learns more about as the game progresses, but most of the characters are so unlikable that it is difficult to care.
Jurassic Park The Game consits of two types of sections: action sequences and puzzle sequences. The action sequences consist entirely of quick time events. The worst offenders are the double or triple arrow quick time events. It is unfairly difficult the first time, but then stupidly easy the second time, and it gives the player no satisfaction.
Following the lead of the boring action sequences, the puzzle sequences require virtually no thinking. Most are solved by clicking all the investigate icons until something happens.
There are a few graphical glitches, but overall, the environments and the dinosaurs look fine.
Locations, sound effects and music from the movie are good used.
I can not recommend it to anybody, except hardcore fans of Jurassic Park. There are a lot of better point and click adventure games. Jurassic Park the game is not worth the full price.

Sound 8/10
Graphics 6/10
Gameplay 2/10
Atmosphere 5/10

The Egregious:

As far as QTE laden games go Jurassic Park The Game has to rank among the absolute worst. The QTEs are the game play and are poorly designed, poorly implemented, poorly placed, sometimes make no sense and are poorly explained. Gaming wise JPTG is an epic catastrophe that deserves it's own pillar in the gaming hall of shame. This is a work that could of been something much greater.

The Redeeming:

If you're a fan of a decent dinosaur tale and don't mind watching the death scene after death scene as you fail QTE after QTE you might want to give it a spin. Some of the death representations are laughably side splitting and ludicrously enjoyable, so much so that I looked forward to and did not care to fail the QTE sequences. The dinosaurs are the one awesome and redeeming aspect of JPTG. They are awesome in every respect. They look realistic, behave realisticly thanks to their great modelling and animation. The dinosaurs save Jurassic Park The Game and it is on this one merit that I can recommend what I would otherwise classify as a classic gaming disaster.

"quick time event: the game" OR "quick time park of death", would have been better names for this game.

good things: the animations and graphics are okay, sounds and voice acting are good.
also the story is quite interesting, i always want to know what happens next, because jurassic park fascinated me since the first movie came out... even if some parts of the game plot dont make much sense.

so far so good, but: what kills the game is the terrible gameplay.

every chapter contains almost 50% quick time events, as soon as the game is flowing for a minute, you have to press a button again, and again, AND AGAIN.
whoever thought thats a good idea should be whipped.

also you get an achievement every few minutes just for playing. whats the point of this?
"OH GREAT DUDE; YOURE NOT ANNOYED YET; AND PLAYED OUR GAME SO FAR; HERE TAKE THIS PITY ACHIEVEMENT!"

the controls are sluggish and annoying , the few game riddles i came across so far, were pretty easy and the more you play. you wish that you could just watch the rest of the story as video, to avoid further participation in this quicktime event nightmare.

my suggestion? if you are a big fan of JP, watch a play through on youtube instead of buying this game.
that will save you a lot of money and frustration.

This is rather tough to recommend to be perfectly honest, I will say that at least the style of gameplay (quick-time and point and click) is what you would expect from TellTale and for the most part it's good, I mean look at Walking Dead, but the main weakness for me is the main problem of the whole game, the story.

It felt really, really rushed out and not that compelling. I will say that they stay true to the plot of the original movie such as the theft of the Dino DNA aspect of the movie as one example, but the characters are so paper thin and so generic to boot. I hardly felt invested in the people in the story, so I felt disconnected in the scenes that tried to envoke some emotion from the player. Which is really a let down for me, as someone who loves point and click adventures and story driven games.

At least the scenes with the dinosaurs were cool and the quick time events in those parts were actually compelling and nerve-wreaking so thats pretty good.

The graphics are ok for the most part, nothing groundbreaking and I did not expirence any kind of bugs from my expirence which is a plus.

However, I will say this to think about, if you want to play a Jurassic Park video game, this is the best one your going to get. I've seen the others, there pretty bad or just average. Jurassic Park has had some pretty bad luck in video games. So out of all those games, this is a huge improvement, at least the game is ok enough to want to play through it to the end.

Tough call, but I'll say this, if you are a HUGE Jurassic Park fan or are someone who can enjoy the ride and expirence of playing a point and click with dinosaurs and can ignore the bland story, and also if the game is on sale, then....yes I think its worth a play through. Its a one-time only thing because one you play the whole story thats it, no other modes and whatnot so wait for a sharp discount and then give it a go.

So I would give it a 5.8/10, its nice to see a Jurassic Park game again and one thats okay at best, but this could have been SO much more. It's sad really.

I had really high hopes for this game after seeing the trailer. Had I known what kind of game it actually turned out to be, I would've passed on it.
Unfortunately, this game is nothing more than one extremely long cutscene with badly programmed quicktime events and lame point and clicks interspersed.
While the story is somewhat interesting, it is not enough to redeem the horribly long dialogues and terrible quicktime events.