Dino Park: Invader is an upcoming game that is going is garanteed to be one of the best in the history of computer games. Keep reading to learn all about it! |
OK, I'm not normally a huge video gamer. Seriously. It's not that I
don't like playing video games, but I just don't have the time for it
with all the work I have to do here at Smiley's News. However,
when I heard that the game company Unimaginable © was going
to be releasing a game featuring dinosaurs, I just had to get a story
published about it! As you all might already know, Unimaginable ©
is responsible for creating games such as Indiana James and
Noah's Lost Ark, Galactic Wars Episode IV, To the
Future and Back and Lord of the Pinto Beans; their latest
game is known as Dino Park: Invader! My trusty, junior
photographer, Danial P. Smithwater and I went to the Unimaginable
© company building to interview the head game developer, Tyson
Cortes.
The game's description is as follows:
“In Dino Park: Invader!, you play as Annie, a woman who's plane wrecks on a mysterious island off the coast of Costa Rica in the Pacific Ocean and finds that she is the only survivor. Unfortunately, she soon comes to realize that the island she arrived on is not just any island – she's landed on Isla Cortez, the breeding ground for a once top-secret company known as Biogen, or Biological and Genetic Technologies Inc. and that the island is inhabited by living, breathing dinosaurs! Using her strength, wits and tools she finds on the island, Annie must escape the dino-filled island alive by reaching the helicopter landing pad. Can she make it in time?”
Tyson is quoted for saying, “After finishing Lord of the Pinto
Beans, we decided to do a dinosaur-themed video game since pretty
much everyone loves dinosaurs.” Tyson got the idea to start working
on the game when he finished watching his five-year old son playing
with his dinosaur collection and a toy person. He had the dinosaurs
actively pursuing the person.
“The game is a first-person adventure staring a woman named Annie,”
says Tyson. “The game involves a lot of fleeing, fighting off
dinosaurs using weapons she finds lying around and solving logic
puzzles. All the environments are three-dimensional and consist of
quite a few different habitats.” Tyson went on to explain that the
game also features Annie learning about the rich history of Biogen
– the initial creation, rise and eventual fall of the company. “The
player will also learn a lot about Annie's personality as the game
unfolds, she's a very creative, energetic, optimistically-minded
young woman.”
Dino Park:
Invader! doesn't only consist of
Annie of course, it's filled with a rich environment and loads of
amazing creatures in each level. The game is planned to have 16
levels that Annie will have to get through in order to make it off
the island:
- The Beach
- The Estuary
- The Mangrove Swamp
- The Open Woodland
- The Sauropod Valley
- The Jungle
- The Plains
- The Jungle #2
- The Worker Village
- The Laboratories
- The Raptor Nest
- The Upland Forest
- The Mountain Forest
- The High Cliffs
- The Communication Center
- The Race to the Helipad
“Each of the levels
features little challenges for Annie to figure out and she'll have to
battle dinosaurs in every level as well,” explains Tyson. “Well,
I take that back. The . . . [level] that takes place at the Beach is
a tutorial level, where the player can learn how to do certain
things.”
Of course, you can't have
a dinosaur game without the dinosaurs! There's a whole host of
dinosaurs making their appearance in this game that Annie is going to
encounter. “We tried our best to fill the game with a lot of well
known dinosaurs,” says Tyson, “but also some dinosaurs that many
people might not know about. One of my favorite dinosaurs in the game
is Sinornithosaurus.” Tyson
tells me that Sinornithosaurus
is an arboreal (tree-living) raptor related to Velociraptor
that leaps out of trees to attack Annie. Annie must locate as many
weapons (tranquilizer guns, tasers and cattle prods) to defend
herself from these and other dinosaurs. Tyson also said, “Of
course, we had to put in Tyrannosaurus rex.
In my opinion, you can't have a dinosaur game without T. rex. Annie
meets loads of T. rex when she's on her island adventure. We also
felt that we had to include Velociraptor.
In the game, they try to make surviving a hard thing for Annie to do.
They're very intelligent and hunt in packs. If Annie doesn't watch
her back, she's a goner! Oh! I almost forgot to mention that there
are three tribes of raptors across the island: Tribe A, Tribe B and
Tribe C; as if one type of raptor wasn't enough!” Tyson was able to
give me a list of the dinosaurs planned to be in the game. The list
consists of:
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- Velociraptor
- Triceratops
- Brachiosaurus
- Pachyrhinosaurus
- Acrocanthosaurus
- Albertosaurus
- Stegosaurus
- Compsognathus
- Sinornithosaurus
- Dilophosaurus
- Diplodocus
- Allosaurus
- Styracosaurus
- Camarasaurus
- Ceratosaurus
- Cryolophosaurus
- Baryonyx
- Spinosaurus
- Oviraptor
- Pteranodon
- Pachycephalosaurus
- Dracorex
- Stygymoloch
- Torosaurus
- Kentrosaurus
- Eoraptor
Unimaginable © plans
to release this game on May 21, 2014 and are very excited about doing
so. They feel as if they have the perfect dinosaur game. “The
development team has put a lot of work into making this game,”
Tyson says, “and I'm sure that once we're done, it will be all
worthwhile!”
Written by: Mr. Smiley
Photographer: Daniel P.
Smithwater
Edited by: Christian
Ryan, Joy Hammond
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