Product Description

Gear up for action and save Jurassic Park! Product Information Calling all Dino Defenders!  The situation is critical on Isla Sorna. The dinosaurs have escaped and it's complete chaos!  As a member of theteen force specially trained for such emergencies, you can help before it's toolate! Jurassic Park III: Dino Defender is aic arcade-style platform game inwhich kids take th

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7035 in Video Games
• Brand: Vivendi Universal
• Model: 71219
• Released on: 2001-06-26
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Mac, Windows 2000, Windows
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Features

• Trap the runaway predators and restore power to the fences
• Run, jump, climb, and swim through the park, looking for the circuit breakers that will power up the fences
• Helicopters drop down supplies like tranquilizers, dinosaur-trapping nets, flares and even call boxes
• Ages 8 and up

Amazon.com Review
A typhoon has struck Jurassic Park, knocking out the fences that keep the meat-eating dinosaurs away from their gentle herbivorous cousins. In Jurassic Park III: Dino Defender, players must trap the runaway predators and restore power to the fences before the great reptiles destroy each other completely.

Intended for children 8 years and older, Dino Defender is an arcade game of the obstacle-course variety. Players run, jump, climb, and swim their way through the park, looking for the circuit breakers that will power up the fences, while trying not to get eaten in the process. Along the way, helicopters drop down supplies critical to user survival: tranquilizers, dinosaur-trapping nets, flares, and even call boxes, which lure dinosaurs of a particular species.

The conceit behind Dino Defender is charming and has a wrinkle that makes it slightly different from that of similar games. While the player's mission is to save the dinosaurs, the monsters in Jurassic Park have no compunctions about devouring their rescuers. One mistake, and the ungrateful beasts will tear a player apart. Even so, the gore content of the game is low, while the action is fast paced and exciting.

The look of this game is lush and appealing, with mazes that offer decent problem-solving challenges without being overly complex. As a result, Dino Defender will please young action fans immensely. It offers nonstop opportunities to fall down cliffs and drown in rivers... not to mention getting eaten by a hungry velociraptor. --Alyx Dellamonica

Amazon.com Product Description
A typhoon has knocked down Jurassic Park's electric fences. Dinosaurs are roaming wild and preying on each other. As a member of theDino Defenders emergency response team, your mission is to trap ortranquilize the frenzied dinosaurs and save the island. There are six levels ofaction to master, each inhabited by realistically rendered dinosaurs. Youwill have at your disposal equipment like steel-clawed gloves, a titaniumhelmet, a vocal synthesizer (whose purpose will become plain when youplay), tranquilizer balls, and steel nets. There are also hidden items, secretpaths, and video clips that play each time a new level is conquered.

Customer Reviews

NOT ONLY FOR THE YOUNG DINO HUNTERS!
This game is rated for ages 8 and over but, as a 55-year-old woman, I am well over the target market age and I can't stop playing this game, it is so much FUN! If you want to forget about something, you certainly will while you are playing or thinking about how to work yourself around the rather sophisticated puzzles needed to "capture your dinosaurs". The graphics are so realistic that I feel I am actually in the game and sometimes I find myself proud of conquering my life-long fears of height, water, and climbing, (not to mention the ferocious dinosaurs)! Quite a challenge to the mind and exciting to the soul. Now, if I can only get past that
T-Rex . . .

Dino-rrific!
I came upon this game quite by accident, it was on sale...in a department store. Being an adult and an avid Juassic Park fan I figured I had nothing to lose and maybe just maybe it would be fun. I put it in my computer and my excitment at seeing the Jurassic logo come on was quickly daunted when I heard the singers singing "Dino Defender!" I think remember saying something like "Oh Gawd!" But I decided to give it a shot any way and was soon in the "training center" learning the moves for the actual game. I thought it was nice how it showed you to move yourself in different situations. Good training for you to move quickly later on in the game when you have to. The game has lots of action and excitement. I was really suprised and pleased. You have to go around the island and search out all the power boxes and turn them on, find your supplies, all the while trying not to be lunch for a T-Rex, raptors, Spinosarus etc... Some of the situations take LOTS of skill and plotting. Often times I was running scared trying to leap, climb up, get down open my arsenol and throw it at the dinosaur before I got eaten. I am suprised that kids can move up to the different levels as I said before some situations take lots of skill and plotting. I was sad to see when I reached the last level and saved the Park. It was a lot of fun and I had looked forward to playing it each evening after work. I highly recommend this game for everyone. OH! don't forget to Save often while playing this one!

A good buy
This game is pretty fun. I don't know why some people complain that it is too hard. I beat it several times. You just have to be the kind of person who doesn't get too discouraged and gives up too easily. I'll admit some of my nephews and nieces can't beat it, so I think maybe it should be for ages 10 and up. But I got this game when I was like 12 and I had a lot of fun. I'm now 16 and I still like it. The graphics are decent, the strategy is cool, the only thing I don't like about it is it's like a Super Mario game. You only view from the side. You can't move the camera in a 360 to view all of your three-dimensional world. But all in all, a fun, addictive game. I think I'll go play it now!