It is big news there is another Jurassic World came developed by Frontier. It’s also big news for this:
While it was known there were three CMS games coming in Frontier’s next three fiscal years, there
was absolutely nothing to indicate that any of them were third-party IP license games,
until now.
You see, Frontier have
always confirmed a greenlight for all previously known license games in one way or another,
long before their official announcements: The
four F1 Manager games, the
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar game, and both
JWE games. There was
nothing to confirm any of the last two unannounced CMS games being a greenlit non-Frontier-owned IP based game, which was why I had no reason to believe, until today.
This was a game that was confirmed to be in scoping stages back in their 2023 financial results, then in actual development in their 2023 annual report towards the end of that same month.
Now that it’s been confirmed that the FY26 game is a greenlit Jurassic World game, I cannot only definitively say I was wrong on that, I’m looking forward to see what it is!
But I have lots of unanswered concerning questions for this game. The biggest one I have is this:
While it’s implied to be part of the
Evolution franchise in their report,
how are they doing it?
While I see tons of people making hopes and dreams for it and for what thry wish to see to make the best
Jurassic park construction and management game to ever exist with loads and loads of stuff, there are two drawbacks I see.
1. The first is more often than not, a large majority of these wishes for the single most best type of game to exist to have snd play hardly ever come true. It just builds up hype, overhyping, for something that may be “lesser” or “mediocre” than the dreams themselves in comparison in the end. Even potentially overhyping up for
absolutely nothing for that matter.
Short, it all makes the hype sound too good to end up being
very true.
That’s what happened with JWE2, when it was overhyped and hoped to be extravagantly different and super immersive to experience, only for it to turn out the way it is in the end that may contradict those dreams. And that basic scenario was true for a lot of game projects I’ve seen throughout my life, AAA and indie alike.
2. The other is that, while some things may be improved, making it with the express purpose to have a
“perfect prehistoric zoo game with loads of qualities and quantities to have in your parks and maps that players and fans wish to have at all costs” does not sit with the vibes of the current two JWE games.
For example, one of biggest the things they focused on for JWE2, but likely not limited to, was storytelling opportunities. When JWE2 director, Rich Newbold, was interviewed for Newsweek magazine, he explained that they saw JWE2 as an opportunity to explore more storytelling directions with Universal’s help.
. Campaign wise, JWE1’s games were just settings loosely based on the films and certain elements from them, like the base campaign having a background text document story, or RTJP being an immersive “what if the park was fixed” scenario after JP’s events. But, JWE2’s games are designed to fit within the overarching Jurassic canon that Universal owns, at least that’s what Newbold confirmed for the DFW game, and the vibes I get for the two Dominon games.
Because it feels like, to me, much of the potential opportunities I can think of that would fit their style have already been used up to make make a
“satisfying full blown JWE park CMS sequel” for both Frontier and Universal to collaborate on, unless I’m wrong on that. New in-game features, improvements, and content to add not included.
With all that in mind, there no way any of us can tell if it will be a standalone/spinoff CMS JWE game that isn’t a dino zoo/park focus type, or a full fledge JWE park CMS sequel (JWE3), so we have to wait and see on that.
But don’t
“But [article web] says it’s JWE3!” me, because journalists are human like us, in that they are just as left in the dark as we are. They have made assumptions and speculations that don’t end up true, pick things to talk about they find throughout internet and online discourses, make semi or total clickbait titles that don’t fully represent what they say in the articles themselves, and have made countless viral mistakes in the past all together, unless they get further internal info to share which I don’t believe they got for this particular case.