Reviews are starting to come out

[Flint2025]

Read a PC gaming website review and watched one on YouTube. 7 and 7.5. Not bad ratings. It's definitely a better game than jwe1.

But here are a few other disappointing things mentioned.

JP raptor paddock isn't back: this is a real shocker since it was in the last game. I figured at the very least we would get this back. I was hoping we'd get to house raptors in it outside of a campaign scenario with hopefully some better camera views inside it with a feeder option like the mosa shark feeder. But it isn't in there. What in the jurassic world?!

San Diego Amphitheater can't be used outside of its map/mode: not too surprising I guess. But how great would that thing look on a nublar or sorna map?????

No aviaries in JP Era: what?! Why? JP Era in jwe1 is where we first got an aviary. So why is that not an option? I haven't heard if no lagoons in JP Era either, but lagoons were established in the JP telltale game so they should exist in that Era too if they aren't in there either. What in the jurassic world is going on here?

No JW T-Rex Kingdom or JW Indominus Paddock (goes without saying no JW Raptor Training Paddock either): again...smh...why?! If you are devoting a mode to creating Jurassic World why weren't these things at least pre-made buildings like the Amphitheater from San Diego in chaos mode? Something they had to know we'd want and love to death!!!! So why not include it? Modders have worked on these type of fences for jwe1 so we know it can be done if they wanted to do it.

What in the jurassic world?

 

[PCMR4Life]

You can't have aviaries in the JP era or lagoons. The lagoons and aviaries lack any kind of JP era theming. Also there is no JP aviary at all. Remember the metal one from the first game? It's gone. You know DFW aviary in the campaign? It can't be used. I just found this out and I am very disappointed. I have to say this decision makes no sense and a huge step back. So they have a flying reptile in the game from the novel Jurassic Park but we can't have it our Jurassic Park builds cause we can't have Aviaries. At least let us use the JW aviaries till they come up with a JP themed aviary. They could just take the DFW Aviary and put some JP themed cosmetics on it and let use that.

I feel like I should have held off on buying the game and waited 6 months to a year for improvements. A lot of stuff in the game looks really good. But then you have questionable design decisions like no aviaries and lagoons in the JP era. I can understand not being used in Chaos Theory scenarios. But we can't have them in our JP themes sand box builds.

If it wasn't so close to release I would probably just cancel my preorder and wait for fixes, new content and mods.

 

[TeaRex]

I really want T-Rex Kingdom, and other JW paddocks as well

 

[Alan_Grady]

None of that is truly a surprise to me. Just all the nonsensical limitations and scrapoffs we already should be used to receive from Frontier.

I wasn't at all in favor of a sequel, so I've been scarcely following all the news but I did take a little more interest when I saw the actual dinosaur behaviour implemented. Yet, to all you mentioned, still weirdly shaped maps with (likely) more terrain constraints and still neither islands nor map generator.

7 - 7.5 is still too much, as is charging it a full AAA+ price again. Maybe in a year time, when it's heavily discounted and modders are already rampant on their fixing stuff... Pity

 

[Jurassic Tyrant King]

Don't worry everybody there is plenty of time for a frontier to include all of that cool stuff because I'm really hoping that the JP San Diego arena becomes another placeable Object that we can place in our parks at any time or any place in the maps in sandbox that we want but we'll just have to wait to see.

 

[David€94]

The onnlly review you need is BiS. Reviewers have 5 games 2 weeks time you cant take them serious at all. I cant review a genre that is absolutely not my cup of tea. Its all about the clicks nothing more.

I could never review a dark souls game because i just dont like that neither could i play that more than a few hours. Reviewer are useless business. Devs know that publisher knooww that . Naive ppl dont.

 

[Flint2025]

The onnlly review you need is BiS. Reviewers have 5 games 2 weeks time you cant take them serious at all. I cant review a genre that is absolutely not my cup of tea. Its all about the clicks nothing more.

I could never review a dark souls game because i just dont like that neither could i play that more than a few hours. Reviewer are useless business. Devs know that publisher knooww that . Naive ppl dont.

Lol BiS is the one YouTube review I watched and got this disappointing information from.

 

[Fossa]

I think this game looks too much like JWE1... There are good changes, but for the rest it feels still too much like the old game, especially the dino-roster...

 

[Gillegan]

so i cant use the amphitheater in sandbox on another map?

 

[David€94]

not yet.

 

[Parritron]

I think this game looks too much like JWE1... There are good changes, but for the rest it feels still too much like the old game, especially the dino-roster...

The dino roster is the last thing we should criticize and the last thing they should work on.

I see two very big problems with the game. The first is the size of the maps. There's no use having a huge dino roster if you can't fit all species on one map.
The vast majority of maps are still very small. JP 1993 is tiny compared to the first game. Why?. Narrow maps are back with aberrant shapes that make it difficult for you to build. Putting them for Challenge and Sandbox doesn't make sense.

The second big problem is that dinosaurs again have the same animations seen over and over again. The roar of the T.Rex looking up is horrible. Where are the head-down roars we've seen in your species profile and the Dev Diary? Hunting and combat animations are 90% the same as in the first game. It doesn't feel like something new, I see the same JWE dinosaurs doing what they did before. Acro and Carcha continue with their horrible designs, etc.

The 100% new pack hunting animation is horrible, with the dinosaur standing still to be hunted and unable to kill any of those who attack it. Did the T. Rex bite and throw the raptor away and did the raptor stand up as if nothing had happened? what. The same goes for a Parasaurolophus kicking a raptor (which should kill him) and doing nothing to it.

There is also no herd hunting for medium carnivores and no herd defense for herbivores.

Frontier has to work really hard from now on and support this game by adding a lot of new animations:

-T.Rex killing Spinosaururs with a unique animation, just like the other way around.

-Defense against efficient herd hunting. Armored or much larger dinosaurs should be able to kill at least one raptor. In the case of attacking large carnivores they should directly be slaughtered in their attempt.

-Defense in herd against large carnivores, for example two Trikes vs T. Rex and this has to be withdrawn.

-New roar and combat animations and end of combat. Again the dinosaur dodging and biting on the neck for all medium and large carnivores?. No more recycling, this is a brand new game that we all pay a good amount of money for.

 

[Jura Arena]

The dino roster is the last thing we should criticize and the last thing they should work on.

I see two very big problems with the game. The first is the size of the maps. There's no use having a huge dino roster if you can't fit all species on one map.
The vast majority of maps are still very small. JP 1993 is tiny compared to the first game. Why?. Narrow maps are back with aberrant shapes that make it difficult for you to build. Putting them for Challenge and Sandbox doesn't make sense.

The second big problem is that dinosaurs again have the same animations seen over and over again. The roar of the T.Rex looking up is horrible. Where are the head-down roars we've seen in your species profile and the Dev Diary? Hunting and combat animations are 90% the same as in the first game. It doesn't feel like something new, I see the same JWE dinosaurs doing what they did before. Acro and Carcha continue with their horrible designs, etc.

The 100% new pack hunting animation is horrible, with the dinosaur standing still to be hunted and unable to kill any of those who attack it. Did the T. Rex bite and throw the raptor away and did the raptor stand up as if nothing had happened? what. The same goes for a Parasaurolophus kicking a raptor (which should kill him) and doing nothing to it.

There is also no herd hunting for medium carnivores and no herd defense for herbivores.

Frontier has to work really hard from now on and support this game by adding a lot of new animations:

-T.Rex killing Spinosaururs with a unique animation, just like the other way around.

-Defense against efficient herd hunting. Armored or much larger dinosaurs should be able to kill at least one raptor. In the case of attacking large carnivores they should directly be slaughtered in their attempt.

-Defense in herd against large carnivores, for example two Trikes vs T. Rex and this has to be withdrawn.

-New roar and combat animations and end of combat. Again the dinosaur dodging and biting on the neck for all medium and large carnivores?. No more recycling, this is a brand new game that we all pay a good amount of money for.

I'm with you.
But we also know that Jens and his team listen to us and we more or less get the conformation that the raptors get nerfed in the day one patch.

Unique animations should be set but if I saw best in slots video today with all the social interactions, again I get disapointetd even seeing that they use the same animations for some species.
But again I have hope we get more variouty over time. If we remember the Pachys had at launch from JWE1 no fight animation and became later one of the best.

Well, at least the upcomming DLC species will have unique animations....

 

[Flint2025]

JP nublar map size being smaller than last game is very concerning as well. Basically we'll have a more complete JP if we jump back into jwe1. Give us the waterfall with a much larger map. The fact the map is so small tells me they don't plan on fixing the faults in this game. Someone who isn't even a fan of the movies was probably like don't worry about the map being too big they can't build lagoons or aviaries in that Era anyway so they don't need a lot of room. Which would mean they're just going to skirt by and not fix anything unless the community holds their feet to the fire on this stuff.

 

[PCMR4Life]

so i cant use the amphitheater in sandbox on another map?

No you can't. But the amphitheater says San Diego on it and the rocky design means it will really only fit on other maps similar to the San Diego map. So I can see why Frontier made it only available in the San Diego map for sand box. It's really going to stick out on other maps and not go well with them. I guess you should still at least have the option. There is probably some other issue maybe. But I can see why they made that decision at least.

You can't even move it around on the San Diego map. It's stuck in place.

 

[gabeluna27]

I'll be honest here, I knew from the start since announcement day, that there were going to be a ton of stuff hoped and wished for JWE2 here, YouTube, and especially Reddit for OVER 2½ YEARS before any official announcement and reveal that were just going to end up too good to be true, which is why I never speak with certainty or expectancy when looking forward to it (which I still am myself as I'm really looking forward to make dream parks and facilities in it one day, as well as really wanting to use it for something else entirely, along side JWE1), or when giving ideas/suggestions.