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Jurassic Park: Trespasser (also known as Trespasser) is a computer game, which was released in 1998 for the PC after much hype and anticipation . The player assumes the role of Anne, a young woman who is lost on InGen's "Site B" one year after the events of The Lost World. With a fractured arm and only her wits, Anne must escape the remote island by evading hordes of hungry and vicious dinosaurs, or face the gruesome alternative.

Gameplay

The entire game is played through the eyes of Anne (voiced by Minnie Driver). There are almost no cutscenes. As she traverses the island, Anne will often talk to herself or remember clips of John Hammond's memoirs (voiced by Richard Attenborough) describing the creation of Jurassic Park.

The game was generally poorly received by critics , disregarded by a vast majority of Jurassic Park fans, and financially generated, at best, disappointing profit. Much of the gameplay in it was revolutionary for its time, but improperly utilized, making the game a rather interesting failure.

Realism

This game features no HUD whatsoever. Anne's health is represented by a tattoo on her chest that is filled in more and more depending on how much damage she has taken. The only way for the player to know how much ammunition is left in a particular weapon is by Anne specifically saying things such as, "About 8 shots." "Feels full." "Hasn't been used." The no-HUD system where the character will state how much ammunition they have left has recently been implemented in the King Kong video game.

The Arm

By pressing a key, Anne will extend her arm out in to the game world, allowing the player to pick up, swing, and throw objects. This allows the player to create improvised weaponry, for instance: grabbing a large rock off the ground and bashing a Velociraptor over the head with it. However, this feature is extremely cumbersome, as it requires up to five buttons (maximum) to be pressed to fully manipulate the arm (picking up, dropping, moving, swinging, and rotating). This makes utilizing the arm in the heat of battle somewhat difficult. Further problems with the arm included a contribution to logical flaws in the promoted realistic portions of the game. For example, Anne could pick up steel girders that theoretically weighed a ton or more, and swing them around or toss them several feet with ease, but could not use this same arm to pull herself over a 3 foot high enbankment. The wrist mechanics had the capabilities of a contortionist, able to rotate 360 degrees several times over, yet Anne had no elbow, prompting one magazine reviewer to jokingly inquire as to how she can eat with only one arm that could not be brought to her mouth.

Weaponry

In addition to picking up objects off the ground to use as weapons, Anne can find and use various other armaments. In keeping with the "hyper realistic" vision of the game, firearms have no crosshairs causing the player to align the gun by adjusting Anne's wrist, and Anne must manually move her arm to aim at dinosaurs. This can make firing weapons especially difficult for inexperienced players. Anne can carry up to two weapons at a time.

Once each firearm is empty, it serves little else except as a club when swung. Weapons cannot be reloaded, and so are discarded and another one must be found.

Dinosaurs

Trespasser features a total of seven dinosaur species: Albertosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Velociraptor, Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Stegosaurus. Dinosaurs come in two forms: herbivores and carnivores. Although carnivores are more dangerous and are the player's primary target for combat, some herbivores are extremely defensive of their territory and will injure Anne just as badly as a carnivore would.

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