Jurassic Park Explorer DVD Game

List Price: $24.99 Discount Price: $14.50

Features:

• A DVD board game with dinosaur TV games and clips from all three Jurassic Park movies.
• The greatest dinosaur game ever! Play on your TV with your family.
• Dinosuars come alive with original 3D dinosaur animation and fun interactive games.

Customer Reviews:

Playing With Dinosaurs [Posted on 2007-09-18]
Somebody must've figured out all the bugs in these DVD games, because my kids and I have been playing this one for the past month and it's worked perfectly.

The game is all about dinosaurs, so it's fun and educational (always a huge plus). It doesn't matter if your kids are familiar with the 1993 movie from Steven Spielberg. There are references to the island, and one quiz includes film clips, but you don't need prior knowledge of the film story.

The basic premise is that each player or team must help the scientists to explore the island, excavate bones, and even create dinosaurs. Most of the action is controlled with the DVD remote. There are seven different games and puzzles on the disc, all easily played by my kids. Their favorites included the maze and the dinosaur lab.

The beauty of this game is that each player can pick a difficulty level, so the whole family can play without the little ones feeling left out. I found the expert level, which I played at, to be a real challenge. Which probably explains why my kids keep beating me. I need to read up on my dinosaurs.

The other great thing about this game is that the little magic elves who live inside the DVD player keep track of each player's turn and points. I don't know how they do that, but it sure is a nice feature.

If you have dino-crazy kids, this is the perfect game for them. It's absolutely packed with dinosaur facts and trivia. It's recommended for kids as young as six. That sounds about right, as my 6-year-old daughter has enjoyed playing it as much as her 9-year-old brother.

Mostly filler [Posted on 2007-12-02]
The box announces that this game is for anyone "6 to 106" and reviews have suggested the same. Well, it might be good for a couple of six year olds playing together for a little while, but this is NOT for family entertainment. You'll be bored stupid after one round through all the game options.

My niece is at that hard to buy for age. Too old for "toys" and too young for "tech". I thought this would be perfect. Multiple players with multiple skill levels and a popular "educational" topic.

Yes, this game does offer game play for 1 to 4 people. There are various "games" to play on the disc, but only a couple of them really show any variation from one skill level to the next.

Most of the "games" are just silly and not the least bit educational. One has you jump over a chasm. Hit enter one time and that's the "whole" game. Another will have you finding dino bones, which is merely a game of chance. You pick squares to reveal what's underneath. Another has you in a DNA lab where you merely scroll through pics of dinos cut into thirds and match them up to create a whole dino.

Between the games is agonizing filler. Scores and directions are repeated over and over. Trying to skip over them sometimes works, but often ends in a glitch that only makes you have to skip around more.

Only a couple of games are worthwhile. One is a simple quiz, where you'll be asked multiple choice questions about dinos. Another, you'll be given four dino names and then you'll be shown a dino approaching in the mist. In so many seconds everyone playing must yell out what dino they think it is. Another game shows clips from the movies. This one has some potential, but not much, seeing that most of the questions asked about the clips are just silly. "How many cars were in this scene?" "How many times did the dino snap at the dragonfly?"

If you have multiple younger kids in your household, this might entertain them for an hour, but I'll repeat that this is not "family" entertainment.

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