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By Griff Griffin
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Baby dinosaurs were never planned for the original "Jurassic Park." Life simply found a way. In "Jurassic World Evolution 3," however, they’re the star attraction.
Now, for the first time in Frontier’s popular management simulation series, you can breed every single dinosaur in the game (barring seven hybrid species that are canonically infertile) to create adorable juveniles.
You’ll mainly do this to add ‘appeal’, the key metric by which your operation grows. The higher each exhibit’s appeal, the more guests flock to your park, and the more money it’ll rake in. It’s an engaging evolution of the series’ core mechanics, but also a defining moment - a sign it’s approaching a crossroads between refinement and reinvention.
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Jurassic World Evolution 3: How to Breed Dinosaurs
To breed dinosaurs, it’s as simple as putting a male and female together, satisfying their conditions, then adding in a pre-made nest. While fairly simplistic, the birth is rarely something you’ll want to skip.
That’s because juvenile species are unique. For instance, the baby Yutyranous is squatter and fluffier than its parents, while the baby Triceratops has stouter, blunter horns. Babies also have new behaviors, from a playful and inquisitive Diplodocus to a more timid Moros Intrepidus.
Being able to nurture dynamic family units adds a more organic edge, making your park’s inhabitants feel more like animals. However, it does add an extra degree of complexity you might choose to avoid once you’ve satisfied your initial curiosity.
Managing one dinosaur is difficult; managing a family ups the risk, and isn't always worth the hassle. Limiting your park to the essentials, like a few cost-effective dinosaurs, is often the safer bet for your bottom line.
Jurassic World Evolution 3 New Attractions
There are three new attractions in total: the hot air balloon ride, river kayak tour, and dinosaur petting zoo. You can customize the routes of the first two, snaking them over Mosasaur lagoons or through herbivore pens, and even ride the hot air balloon yourself in first-person.
If only there were more. Four years on from 2021's "Jurassic World Evolution 2," three new additions aren't many, even when added onto the handful of existing attractions like the jeep and Gyrosphere tours.
Jurassic World Evolution 3 Campaign
The best way to get started in "Jurassic World Evolution 3" is the campaign. With familiar faces from the Jurassic franchise, including Dr. Ian Malcolm (voiced by Jeff Goldblum), you’ll embark on a non-linear trip across the world as you take over a series of parks at your own pace. Different regions offer fresh challenges.
For instance, in China, you’ll have to make way for the arrival of giant sauropods; in Japan, you’ll need to get a broken-down park back up and running; in Malta, you’ll have to stave off rapidly spreading infections by researching infectious diseases.
Slowly but surely, you’re given more and more freedom to build your own park. When you do, all of these skills come into play. What’s engaging is increasing the efficiency and ironing out the kinks.
Instead of ordering your mobile vets to administer medicine manually, erect a security camera and automate the process. Or swap electrified fences for concrete ones and save on power costs. Building momentum and snowballing your income is always satisfying.
Jurassic World Evolution 3 Terrain Editing Tools
"Jurassic World Evolution 3" contains a suite of surprisingly powerful terrain editing tools. Carve a trench next to a body of water and the liquid flows convincingly into the gap. Fully fledged terraforming also lets you raise steep embankments to use in place of fences, lowering the dinosaur escape risk.
At one point, I dig a deep, dark hole in the middle of a grassy plain and designate it as the fighting pit for all of my rejected hybrids. It’s Scorpius Rex vs Indoraptor illuminated by a bank of floodlights 200ft below the surface of the Earth.
Jurassic World Evolution 3 Dinosaurs
The real draw is the dinosaurs, all 80 of them. They look better than ever, from the way the Tyrannosaurus rex's cheeks ripple when it roars, to the sunlight seeping through the fleshy wings of a Pteranodon silhouetting its red blood vessels.
Convincing behaviors sell the illusion, whether it's the Spinosaurs swimming through deep water, the Therizinosaurus preening itself with its massive claws, or a pair of Giganotosaurus brushing against each other like massive scaly cats.
Jurassic World Evolution 3 Conclusion
"Jurassic World Evolution 3" captures the cinematic magic of the films and mixes it with a clear respect for the real thing, resulting in lifelike dinosaurs rendered with stunning depth and detail. While juveniles and new attractions aren’t game-changing, and terraforming tools cater to a more hardcore crowd, they nonetheless add to the impressive variety.
Future entries will need to push beyond visual fidelity and incremental features to stay fresh. But for now, the spectacular management simulation of "Jurassic World Evolution 3" stands as a series high point.
Score: 8/10
Jurassic World Evolution 3 Release Date
"Jurassic World Evolution 3" is available now on PC, PlayStation®5, and Xbox Series X|S for a suggested retail price of £49.99/$59.99/€59.99 for the standard edition, and £64.99/$74.99/€74.99 for the Deluxe Edition.
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