The micromanagement of the park comes in the form of feeding and caring for your animals. Using the touchscreen to place new buildings and attractions works well, though it can be a bit touchy at times, requiring you to take your time while building or risk misplacement. The landscape is rendered in a flat two-dimensional fashion but the animals themselves are actually 3D, which makes them pop off the screen and feel fairly alive, at least for digital dinosaurs.
You begin with just a basic home base and must expand your park by clearing land, cloning dinosaurs from DNA you discover while digging, and adding additional buildings like hotels as well as attractions such as amusement park rides. And so I downloaded Jurassic Park Builder for my iPad, because my love for extinct animals somehow trumps my common sense.Īs is quite evident from the screenshots as well as its name, Jurassic Park Builder indeed a game about building and maintaining a zoo for dinosaurs.
I am, however, a fan of dinosaurs, and anything with the Jurassic Park logo stamped on it will get at least a passing glance from me. I have to admit that I'm not typically the kind of person who gets sucked into those Farmville-style games - be it on Facebook or in app form - that require hours and hours of tedious upkeep while slowly whittling away at your wallet a dollar or two at a time.
