TITLE
A Young Man’s Ego Doomed A Much-Hyped Jurassic Park Game
AUTHOR
Gita Jackson
PUBLICATION
Kotaku
YEAR
2018
ARTICLE TYPE
Interview
FROM THE ARTICLE
Do you remember what you were like at age 25? It was only four years ago for me, and I already think I was pretty much the worst back then. Seamus Blackley also doesn’t have a stellar opinion of the man he used to be at 25. At the time, he was executive producer on the poorly-received Jurassic Park game Trespasser, and also “probably an insufferable jerk.” Blackley also said that the disaster that was Trespasser lead to the creation of the original Xbox.Trespasser was developed by Dreamworks Interactive, released for PC in 1998, and billed as a sequel to the movie The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Hopes were high for this game, as the partnership between Microsoft and Dreamworks was being lauded as a move that would elevate games to the same level as Hollywood.
It was a disaster. “Of all the games released this year, none was as ill-received and terrible as Trespasser,” wrote GameSpot upon naming it the Worst Game Of The Year. “No game was implemented as poorly, and no game squandered its potential as much.”
COMPANIES MENTIONED
Dreamworks Interactive
GAMES MENTIONED
Jurassic Park: Trespasser
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Seamus Blackley
ALTERNATE LINK
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