Remembering one of history's worst control systems in Jurassic Park: Trespasser

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Trespasser is also famous (well, infamous) for its, uh, unique approach to displaying the player's health without relying on a HUD.

retrospective. But in the meantime, I thought you might enjoy this video compilation of my last few hours of play. I've focused on protagonist Anne's long, flapping arm, which you have to wrestle with to perform even the simplest of tasks, like some angry, fleshy snake. It's a nightmare to control, but there's a weird charm to it.

Trespasser is also famous for its, uh, unique approach to displaying the player's health without relying on a HUD. Swing the camera down and you'll see Anne's heaving cleavage, on which there's the outline of a heart tattoo that fills in as she takes damage. And when the tattoo is complete, she dies. It's preposterous, but an example of how imaginative Trespasser can be—even if, and this goes for pretty much everything in it, the execution leaves a lot to be desired.

To control the arm, you first extend it with the left mouse button. Then you can swing it around by moving the mouse, and grab stuff with the right button. But even with the sensitivity lowered, the thing has a mind of its own. You'll drop anything you're holding if you bump into a wall, and trying to use a fixed machine gun is basically impossible. It's like Surgeon Simulator, but played completely straight.

The game is set on Isla Sorna, or 'Site B', which fans of the series will know as the island where InGen's dinosaurs were created before being shipped over to the ill-fated park on Isla Nublar. Anne's plane crashes on the beach, and she has to make her way to the summit of a mountain to contact the Navy and get rescued. Which would be easy if there weren't hungry dinosaurs roaming the island, and she didn't have a crazy, flailing tentacle for an arm.

 

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Can you pet the dinosaur? Well, you sure can try.

There's a great immersion to it, having to manually pickup weapons and objects using the mouse to move your arm, felt like vr-lite at the time. Sad the game was unfinished. It's object physics were still quite impressive, long before Havoc physics entered the space.

I got my first PC capable of playing games in 2004. Mostly so I could play HL2. Being a few yrs old by that point I remember seeing this for like $5 at the Gamestop so I picked it up. And all I remember about it was trying to get it to not run like complete crap for a week lol

That’s a weird way to spell “best”

Also shout out to its health system, which ask the player to look down on the MC's breasts which has a heart tattoo :,)

Lol, that’s what happens when you try to go for “realism” at the expense of fun.

that's a weird choice considering there are fps games played with a controller

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