I've finished everything, and find it sad that I cannot seem to enjoy this great game anymore in more creative and challenging ways.
I finished all challenges in Jurassic difficulty.
Analysis on the campaign and JWE 2 in general:
- Although it is a nice intro for the newbies
- although it is beautiful with the new climates, and
- Although it has enjoyable quests
There is no replayability after finishing Chaos theory and the challenges.
In JWE 1, u build an empire-tycoon stretching over multiple islands, with different quests (core missions) of the science, security, and entertainment division.
I and many others loved that. Deleting that was not a good choice, IMO. The campaign & Chaos theory are short. Campaign was more or less a tutorial, and chaos theory a sort of introduction to other mechanics and possibilities within the game.
It lacks the feeling of actually progressing and building something
I finished the campaign in 4-6 hours, I believe, whereas the JWE1 campaign, was wayyy longer.
I miss the real challenging missions and hearing the voice acting of all the different divisions.
So yes: this game needs a custom mode or a 'tycoon' building mode, in which we can actually go through the same maps from the campaign, but then in a more 'challenge mode' way and ideally in which we progress through the island with the same progression within the science and technology that is completed before (otherwise they are actually just new custom maps or new challenge modes).
Personally, I really loved reaching 5 stars over many different islands with the specific challenges that the islands met. In JWE1, I remember going to the second Island and starting with the dracorex, due to unlocking the dracorex research in the previous map.
I hope we get either a custom mode or a real 'campaign' (which was now actually a tutorial with some fun quests).