Exactly. I take anything with Ign with a grain of Salt. They are unreliable with ratings unless it is COD or other games like that.
IGN give 4.8/10
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Exactly. I take anything with Ign with a grain of Salt. They are unreliable with ratings unless it is COD or other games like that.
IGN are god awful for reviews anyway, check other sites, they all seem to be a lot better 7/10+
https://www.gamesradar.com/jurassic-world-evolution-review/
4/5
IGN are . They gave Alien Isolation a 4/10 too. One of the best survival horror games I've played.
4/5
IGN are . They gave Alien Isolation a 4/10 too. One of the best survival horror games I've played.
Ot also seems like someone in frontier then off.
There wasn't anything mentioned that i didn't already know about or was shocked to read about. It didn't sound like any features were broken or performance was bad, seems like he just didn't like it which is fine as thats his opinion. Sure it would have been great to read how there was something amazing that we didn't know about.
Anyway i will form my own opinion in an hour or so.
Anyway i will form my own opinion in an hour or so.
Sandbox unlocks when you get the first island to 4 stars I think - pretty early.
As for all the 'sandbox with limited funds posts' - as others have said, that's more of a 'challenge' mode. But hopefully they will do that - would be especially nice if you could set up challenges to share with others "Build a park using only A,C and C dinos and get to 4 stars w/o using X' etc.
What i'd like to know is why did IGN give such a harsh score to this game? IGN has been working with Frontier for the last months bringing us diaries etc so they were heavily involved in the marketing. Did someone step on the toes of IGN or something because this just seems way off.
For the people who just wanted to play sandbox mode it is kind of sad that they have to unlock everything first. For me however I don't really mind that since I want to go through the whole set of islands before I even consider going to Isla Nublar.
For the people who just wanted to play sandbox mode it is kind of sad that they have to unlock everything first. For me however I don't really mind that since I want to go through the whole set of islands before I even consider going to Isla Nublar.
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I dunno hey, the fact that it's tightly constrained actually tells me players need to be creative in their building placement. I guess that's just how I approach it though.
Seems the reviewer needs a large flat plot of land on which to build to flex their "creativity."
I dunno hey, the fact that it's tightly constrained actually tells me players need to be creative in their building placement. I guess that's just how I approach it though.
Seems the reviewer needs a large flat plot of land on which to build to flex their "creativity."
I'm not a fan of IGN reviews, and yeah that's mainly because CoD, BF and Fifa always get 9/10 or higher - which for me has nearly always felt undeserved - while a lot of other games that in my opinion deserve higher scores often get shunted but honestly reading that review it sounds like it was written by someone who doesn't enjoy sim type games and probably hasn't followed any of FDs press releases or discussions on the game
Take for instance his line about recreating JW using flying and aquatic dinosaurs - that's an old record, we've known for months that they aren't included currently and FD have said it's because they want to focus on getting the land dwellers right. He also seems to not want to spend a lot of time in game unlocking stuff. He want's it all straight away without putting a fair number of hours in (it's almost like he supports that stupid Ubisoft "pay to save time in our boring open world AC Origins game because we know you don't want to play the exact same missions 50 times to level up")
I won't bash anyone who takes this review seriously and leaves the game out, and I won't fanboy defend FD from a bad review, but honestly you should be able to pick up on the tone of the article and realise that this reviewer probably isn't the best suited to reviewing this type of game so at least source other reviews before trusting this
Take for instance his line about recreating JW using flying and aquatic dinosaurs - that's an old record, we've known for months that they aren't included currently and FD have said it's because they want to focus on getting the land dwellers right. He also seems to not want to spend a lot of time in game unlocking stuff. He want's it all straight away without putting a fair number of hours in (it's almost like he supports that stupid Ubisoft "pay to save time in our boring open world AC Origins game because we know you don't want to play the exact same missions 50 times to level up")
I won't bash anyone who takes this review seriously and leaves the game out, and I won't fanboy defend FD from a bad review, but honestly you should be able to pick up on the tone of the article and realise that this reviewer probably isn't the best suited to reviewing this type of game so at least source other reviews before trusting this
Frontier didn't pay them enough for a good rating
The only time I want a big plot of land is to recreate Site B [big grin]
Still not okay with that since Planet Coaster had it from the on-set; no need to play anything of the challenges/campaigns.
It's the "having to play to unlock things in sandbox" that I'm not keen on.
Certainly seems that way.
Agreed, sandbox should be separate from the campaign.
Mwa i disagree, i think it should be part of the campaign unlockable, however the sandbox on its own needs to be different then what it is now. It's just not extended enough for those who like to have the zoo tycoon part of it
And perhaps the ratings required per Island could be a little too high for the people who hate that type of thing in order to get to the sandbox. Even then it';s a sort of tutorial before sandbox mode, not neccaserly needs to be seperate in my opinion anyway.
What I find quite annoying is, claiming there is NO room for creativity after thinking out loud how he would play the game: "And once wikis work out which dinosaurs can co-exist, in what numbers, in a pen with the same proportions of forest and grassland, that will be no problem at all."
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