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Jurassic Park for I-Pad, Initial Impressions

    Hey, everyone. I have been watching for the advent of the Jurassic Park game for IOS systems. I loved the movie and I had seen some videos of the game. So I planned to buy it. Just a few minutes ago, it went live on the store, which is good. It's $6.99 which is normal for a premium game. I was about to buy it and saw that it was 'only' around 340 MB which is a good-sized file but is fairly small for one of the big, deep, graphically rich games which I am used to buying. (Like 9MM or Modern Combat). Then I started to look closely at the description of the game on the app store.
1) It only runs on I-Pad 2. This is fine with me because I have an I-Pad 2 and I understand that on advanced games of a certain type the A-5 chip is necessary.
2) Get this. It states that this is Episode 1 of 4. So, it would appear that for the entire game we will have to fork over about $28 plus tax. Hey, I am not criticizing Telltale Games. It is their game and they seem to be up front about it. What I am saying is, do I want to start giving $28, or more, for games on this I-Pad venue? Right now the best thing about I-Pad gaming is the price.
     So, I bought it and downloaded it. What it is, is a video in which you insert your actions to influence the games characters. This episode is about a scientist and his teenage daughter on the herbivore part of the island and a mercenary chick who has come to pick up Nedry's Barbasol can with the embryos of the dinos. (From the movie). For the first few minutes I have watched a video of the guy telling his daughter about dinos. As she uses binoculars you have the opportunity to tap an icon and learn more. Then I saw the mercenary trying to steal passes to the secured part of the park. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it gets better. But I thought I should blog and tell you that you might want to wait on this one due to the type of gaming it is and due to the fact that it is gonna cost you X-Box type money before it's over. If I had it to do over I would pass on this game. To be fair I will get back to you after I play the entire game, if I can ever get this mercenary chick just to pick up the #!@? passes. If you are expecting a shoot em up, I am not quite sure, yet, that this is your game. So far I am disappointed. I did see a part where the mercenary was face to face with some ferocious dinos. Your interaction was to scrape the screen with your fingers to make her crawl backwards away from them. Maybe I'm being critical. Maybe I'm used to Rainbow Six and the 'run and gun' of Black Pegasus.
    By the way, at this time, around midnight eastern, the only way I found to get to the right game page for this game is to go to the Touch Arcade website. Their article on the game has a link that will take you to the app store page.  There is a link on my site for touch arcade, just to your right and down a bit. It's not my place to tell you what to buy but merely to inform you of things you might want to know. Hey, it's their game, they can do as they please. It's your money, do as you please.
      From the Dinosaur Paddock at the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
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