ParaWorld: Dinosaur Gaming from after Turok

Posted on March 29, 2008 by Yellow Hat17

PARAWORLD: And My Own Preview Post

Consoles: PC and Macintosh.

Who can’t ever ask for more than a dinosaur game? Well, that’s what they must’ve been feeling when they made classic games like “Jurassic Park: Rampage Addition” and “Turok: Dinosaur Hunter”. Pretty recently a new style of Dinosaur game came out called “ParaWorld”, Which is a stylish RTS where you combine elements of Ninjas and Dinosaurs. Whether fighting with Steampunk machines as Samurai or riding Dinosaurs as Cavemen, ParaWorld is very different from many other RTS games. (For those who didn’t know, that means Real Time Strategy Game) While some popular Strategy games like Company of Heroes and Rise of Nations/Legends try to focus on huge battles, here’s a game that tries to make small “4 Ninjas fighting two Raptors” style. And another great thing is that it features 52 different kind of infantry, 40 of which are Monstrous Dinosaurs, Mammoths and other prehistoric creatures. Oh, I can’t wait to play this one! (All information is preview. Once I actually play the game I’ll have a real review.)
Styles:

The game seems to mainly focuses on small kind of Big Unit on Little Units battle style, with that great feeling of “Yay, I have a over-exaggeratedly huge monster in my army.” and then the “Wow, I spent two hours trying to get that monster and then that other monster butchered it.” What so ever, that’s life. Maybe the best feeling is that you might feel like you have every enemy from Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, at your own command. So really, you’ve got the essence of either defeat or Victory.

Some Cool Features:

*52 units, 40 of which are rampaging dinosaurs

*5 different course styles.

*Titan feature, where your tribe summons one huge dinosaur and it runs around eating everything in sight.

*8 Player Online including- Defend Mode where you hold off against up to 7 different friends online; Team Deathmatch: The Standard Game; and Domination (Capture the flag)

*3 playable “Heroes”.

*3 Different tribes: The Norse (Vikings), The Dust Riders (Inspired by Ancient African civilization) and the Dragon— Something, I forgot .(Inspired by Mid-Evil Asia)