Following a brief intro in which it’s revealed that Anne isn’t a fan of flying (for good reason in this case) the player takes control on the beach amongst the plane wreckage… our hero miraculously unscathed. The game puts the player in to the shoes of Anne … not that you can see her shoes if you look down, but I’ll get on to that later… an unlucky traveler involved in a plane crash on her way to Costa Rica to see some non-dinosaur friends. They could have come up with a catchier name… The CE patch allows the game to be run, apparently fixes a few bugs, and I believe gave me the option to play in my standard resolution.

Short Technical Interlude: I got hold of the CD release of the game, but in order to get it to run on my current PC I patched it with the community made CE patch with is available from … also worth noting that this game clearly still has a devoted cult following given the maps still being made for it. Twenty years later I decided to give this notorious game a shot in my ongoing quest to find the best Jurassic Park game out there. It was buggy, had sections cut, and largely failed to live up to the ambitious intentions of the designers. Sadly, rushing a game tie-in out to meet with some other release schedule is, as I’ve mentioned before, often one of the big problems with such a title and Trespasser was no exception. A year later in 1998 DreamWorks Interactive released “Jurassic Park: Trespasser” (actually just called “Trespasser”) to coincide with the home release of the movie. I remember all the promotions and merchandise tie-ins alluding to the mysterious “Site B” – I’m pretty sure that even now, if you utter that short word coupled with a solitary letter most people (at least in my age range) would immediately think of dinosaurs.

This article contains spoilers about the bizarre & obscure PC title Jurassic Park: Trespasser, you have been warned…Īfter the excitement of that first groundbreaking movie, the cinematic adaptation of Michael Crichton’s follow up “Jurassic Park: The Lost world” was a huge deal. … You know that bit where John Hammond spoils the magic of the flea circus by telling Ellie that it was all motorised? Well, I’m not like John.

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