Frontier Developments, the studio behind fine management sim series like Planet Zoo and F1 Manager, isn't looking to break the mould. The studio announced that it has three titles in this style currently in development, one of which has been confirmed to be a Jurrasic World game, with the developer inking a deal with Universal Products & Experience to licence the IP.
While the deal itself doesn't specifically refer to this new dino sim as the expected Jurassic World Evolution 3 (thanks, Eurogamer), considering the series is currently one of the strongest performers in Frontier's portfolio, it's hard to imagine it could be anything else. All Frontier has said about the project is that it will be another "creative management simulation", that it's one of three management sims currently in the works, and that the studio plans on releasing all of them in the next three consecutive years.
Are you a fan of Frontier's more cerebral style of gameplay? What do you think of another Jurassic World game coming down the pipeline? Don't let hubris lead to a din-disaster in the comments section below.
[source otp.tools.investis.com, via eurogamer.net]
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I loved both of the Evolution games, so this is great news in my eyes! Evolution 2 built upon the first one by a big margin, so I'm curious as to what they'll do with the 3rd one!
Personally I’d like a new management sim IP so I'm hoping the three they’re working on is:
stuff new Ips and new games
frontier games need to held to account how they abandon there games
frontier studios was created because of elite after backers years of delays and abandon the game on consoles so to play it you know need a pc to get the rest of it and being sold
still pc version is still a mess broken promises
all there money should be going on elite dangerous and fixing everything and promised . but lies after lies road maps changed
i feel frontier are getting a easy ride and they should not
I never enjoyed the park sim JP/JW games but the genre obviously fits the IP very well.
I'm looking forward more to Instinction, assuming it's not vaporware.
One of them is almost certain to be Planet Zoo 2. It has a huge cult following and they’ve nearly reached the end of what they can do with it without giving their community what they consistently request: flying mechanics and fully aquatic animal mechanics.
As an IP it’s made them absolute fortunes because the steady release of dlc packs is just a guaranteed money-printing machine. There’s no way they aren’t in the process of making a sequel…
No way will it be another F1 manager...didn't the last one absolutely bomb, and there were many comments from ex-devs slating the company direction. And with massive hit to their finances, Braben quiting...FDEV is a shadow of what it was. Their problem was they didn't work on a next gen version of ED. This franchise had a massive following and multiple potential revenue streams. But they burnt all those bridges. I for one won't touch anything from that company. They had a golden chance to take Elite further but they tried to make it an FPS (it's not) It's a space trading / combat game. If I want planetary biology gameplay, or base assault combat. I'll play NMS. The biggest issue FDEV had, was the Cobra engine was too old, and needed updating to cope with what they were adding. It was like 1 step forward, 2 back. Every update broke something else. The toxic online space is probably an echo chamber for PC fanboys and the woke crowd these days. Good riddance!
Big fan of Frontier Developments games, so this is good news for me! 😄
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