That's all I have! Don’t forget to check out Pirates of the Caribbean, will you? Trust me, you’ll love it. ;)

Thanks for the cool scoop, 'Andrew'. Pirates of the Caribbean will be released on July 9th".

As your Park gets more popular your Star Rating increases allowing you to open more Dig Sites and buy more Fossil Digging Teams. Everything they find can either be added to your Park or sold on the Fossil Market so look out for Gold, Silver and Opal (you can also buy items from the Fossil Market). More stars = more Visitors so be prepared! Clicking on a Visitor or dinosaur brings up a little
comment box showing exactly what they're thinking so you can act on it (or not).

I've only had my copy a few hours but already 2 things have become obvious. A) Twisters / Thunderstorms will TOTALLY NUKE your Park, so find that Save Game button and use it! B) We're all familiar with the JP fences but this needs the
right type of fence for the job. It took my Acrocanthosaurus about 20 milliseconds to figure out how to kick over his Minimum Security fence and start eating...

I'm ashamed to say this but I wasn't expecting much from OG, it's been almost 2 years since a movie and most of the original JP fans have grown out of it. Therefore Universal and Blue Tongue (the developers) didn't have to aim very
high, and all the stores only had 2 or 3 copies each.

Oh how wrong I was! This baby is totally addictive and immersive. Everything that happens affects something else,such as an increase in the price of an attraction. The increase makes that particular attraction less popular, another one more popular and the Visitors start crowding in odd places whingeing about the prices and leaving! Another clever idea is that you can ride / use your own
attractions.

The Visitors LOOK very similar but they ACT and THINK very differently. There are no human families in Jurassic Park which seems strange but you can end up with dinosaur families (herds) including pack leaders and lower-ranking members. The dinosaurs come in a massive range of species including the movie favourites and others you won't recognise, each with cool textures and fantastic sounds /
animation.

The biggest problem I have with OG is the same problem everyone has - it absolutely thrashes the life out of your video card and processor so make damn sure you read the System Requirements on the box before you even think of
picking it off the shelf. In empty areas you'll be OK but as soon as your Park starts filling up don't be surprised if you need to alter the video settings for textures and
details.

One more bad point - no on-screen help actually setting up your Park or running it in the early days. Your Staff will tell you if they spot a problem but they won't tell you how to fix it.

Good points -
Immersive and realistic gameplay, high-quality Surround
Sound soundtrack and effects, amazing details on authentic
models, smart AI and knock-on effects, helpful hints from
all Staff, easy to build and start your Park. Best Bit -
Stalking a Visitor while he tried to run away from that
*issed off Acrocanthosaurus!

I want to make clear that is not the WHOLE story. There is apparently some top-secret aspect of the plot that they refused to even hint to me. They only said that Spielberg was "delighted" with it. In Michael Crichton's novel The Lost World it was discovered that the dinosaurs have been accidentally infected by a disease code-named DX by InGen. Expect this concept to be carried over to JPIV. They don't end up sending in the military to bomb the place, because in time, DX will prevent the dino's continued existence. This leads me to believe JPIV will probably be the last one.

I asked someone else to pick one off the shelf and took it to the tills. On the way I picked up some other supplies and when the cashier read out the final price it was
exactly £5.00 lower than it should have been.

Originally in the T Rex attack they had Jeff running away from the dinosaur, like the other guy who gets eaten in the toilet. "But I said, 'Please Steven', to Steven Spielberg and we did this different version were I got to be heroic."

Does this mean we are getting closer to hearing an official announcement from
Universal? Sure sounds like it! He also added:

MC: To be honest with you, Universal and Amblin didn't quite keep me "up to date" when they did Jurassic Park 3 (I haven't even seen the film yet).
EW: (laughs) It's been out for more than a year.
MC: How did it do box office-wise?
EW: Really good actually.

In other "Prey" news, the New York Times Book Review has posted their take on the new novel, calling it "irresistibly suspenseful" and "cinematically scary."

"One webpage claimed the movie was already in the can and ready for release by next year! Obviously this is in no way true. Jurassic IV is still in preliminary stages at the moment, and various script drafts are still being fine-tuned.

No, Steven Spielberg will not be directing this installment, contrary to what many websites are indicating. However, he's still extremely excited about the project and very much involved. At this stage, Steven is basically the one shaping the film, either giving the "thumbs-up" or "thumbs down" to conceptual drawings, models and ideas.

Steven has met with John Williams a couple of times to discuss JPIV. Whether or not he will score it himself, I do not know. It's really too early to seriously start writing music, if that makes sense. Yes, it seems highly likely that the finished script will include parts for Sam Neill (terrific actor), Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough. And no, Vince Vaughn has not been approached to be the lead in the film, nor was he ever considered".

First off, as many people have already realised it isn't official and nor are the posters that go with it - Universal Studios most likely have no idea 'Nivu' exists and Amblin Entertainment are perhaps issuing my site's URL to their lawyers right about now.

The place I got the standee from is a place that not many people dare to enter - it came from the darkest, deepest reaches of my bored mind at the end of the Summer holidays.

Several months beforehand my entire JP collection had disappeared into storage and my non-JP life sucked. That is, until the day I got the idea to make my own standee and posters. With the help of Sainsbury's, the College's art store and my faithful laptop I was able to create the world's first (and so far only) JPIV standee and poster set. Originally the places I just mentioned wanted to remain anonymous because what I have done is bordering on the illegal, but they changed their minds when they saw the results.

I confess that 'Nivu' the JPIV standee was made by me a few weeks ago. I apologise to all those people who are now sitting at their computers saying 'Razzie, how could you?!'. I apologise even more to the people who wanted to buy it, and most of all I apologise to the webmasters who told their loyal fans about the release of a JPIV standee / logo test (i never submitted the news myself, it got there all by itself).

Sadly I have not had access to a digital camera or normal camera... until now. Thanks to the miracles of time-travel you can now see Nivu the JPIV standee for yourselves!

"So, what do you think? Are they going to go ahead with Jurassic Park IV?"

"You know, I tell you what," says Nivola, "I really hope not. I really hope not."

He adds, "I found that to be a..." (after a big exhale) "a really trying experience."

"Any particular reason?"

"Because it was..." Nivola gathers his thoughts. "It was like the only part I've ever done that just had nothing for me to latch on to, character-wise. And it was just," again, he exhales, and this time leans forward to where he puts his forehead almost on the table. He looks up, "It was kind of maddening."

"I have to say, Sam Neill got me through it," adds Nivola. "He got me through it because he played ukulele, and we could sit around in our trailers and strum Beach Boys songs." Laughing, he concludes, "And if it hadn't been for that, I would have gone out of my mind."