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Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is a video game for the PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 based on the novel and film series Jurassic Park
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The main point of the game is to recreate Jurassic Park - building a 5 star theme park with dinosaurs, and turning John Hammond's dream into a reality. In the park, you build paths, amenities for food and toiletries, and security measures like a ranger station or cameras. You send fossil hunters to one of nine dig sites - they find bones or amber, from which you extract a certain amount of DNA from a particular species of dinosaur (each dig site features three species of dinosaur, and some species appear at more than one site). You need a 50% complete DNA strand to breed a dinosaur, and the more complete the DNA strand is, the longer the dinosaur will live. You can choose up to 25 different kinds of dinosaurs, and add attractions seen in the real movie such as a Safari Ride. (The cars look just like the ones in the movie.)

The dinosaurs in the game are divided into four categories: Small Herbivores, Large Herbivores, Small Carnivores and Large Carnivores. Each dinosaur also has a star rating out of 5, based on their popularity with the virtual visitors. The game features most of the dinosaurs featured in the three films, as well as some additional species:

Acrocanthosaurus - Large Carnivore, 4 Stars
Albertosaurus - Small Carnivore, 3 Stars
Allosaurus - Large Carnivore, 4 Stars
Ankylosaurus
- Large Herbivore, 4 Stars
Brachiosaurus
- Large Herbivore, 5 Stars
Camarasaurus - Large Herbivore, 3 Stars
Carcharodontosaurus - Large Carnivore, 4 Stars
Ceratosaurus
- Small Carnivore, 2 Stars
Corythosaurus
- Large Herbivore, 3 Stars
Dilophosaurus
- Small Carnivore, 2 Stars
Dryosaurus - Small Herbivore, 1 Star
Edmontosaurus - Large Herbivore, 3 Stars
Gallimimus
- Small Herbivore, 3 Stars
Homalocephale - Small Herbivore, 3 Stars
Kentrosaurus - Small Herbivore, 2 Stars
Ouranosaurus - Large Herbivore, 2 Stars
Pachycephalosaurus
- Small Herbivore, 2 Stars
Parasaurolophus
- Large Herbivore, 3 Stars
Spinosaurus
- Large Carnivore, 5 Stars
Stegosaurus
- Large Herbivore, 4 Stars
Styracosaurus - Small Herbivore, 2 Stars
Torosaurus - Large Herbivore, 2 Stars
Triceratops
- Large Herbivore, 5 Stars
Tyrannosaurus
- Large Carnivore, 5 Stars
Velociraptor
- Small Carnivore, 5 Stars

The game also has 10 missions you can complete - they feature taking photographs of dinosaurs, killing a number of dangerous dinosaurs within a time limit, and guiding herbivorous dinosaurs into a certain area. After you complete all 10, a Site B option unlocks which allows you to build an island without any fences or people, and simply release and watch dinosaurs.

Thanks to the PC version's modular file structure, the game is very easy to modify with nothing more than a regular text editor. It is possible to create almost completely new missions and exercises as well. Thanks to this open ended design, a small community of fans have come together to work to improve realism, unlock unreleased features, and design new things to be included. A group of people have formed the Community Expansion Team, which takes previous modifications and designs new ones for release in a patch for the overall community. Some plans for future expansion include new dinosaurs and buildings, when the proprietary model and texture formats used for the game are made editable.

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