The problem is, between them the classes like everything, and so in order to make them all happy you just need to construct a variety of different attractions, and display a variety of different dinosaurs, things you'd do anyway. For example, children like large, pretty dinosaurs while 'hooligans' want violence. It doesn't just have guests it has classes of guests, and the classes all want different things. The other mainstay for amusement park management games is keeping guests happy, and Dino Island even tries something new here. (And yes, it's a bad sign when leaving the game to watch TV is a good strategy.) Then when you get back, you have lots of money for expanding your park. but it doesn't, and so one of the more effective strategies in the game is to buy a few dinosaurs and set up a few attractions and then wander away for an hour. Now, if Dino Island imposed a time limit on you, money would still be a factor. It takes almost no effort to make money in the game - I even tried to lose money without success - and so the only question is how quickly you earn it. But in Dino Island, money is barely an issue at all. Maybe you have to balance profits with making guests happy, or maybe money is the only thing, and you just need to figure out how to gain it quickly enough. Dino Island is a disaster from start to finish, and no part of the game works.įor starters, at the heart of every management game is making money. Since there have been several theme park management games released in the last few years, you'd think developer Monte Cristo Multimedia would have had an easy time getting the basics right, and that if they had stumbled anywhere, it would have been in adding dinosaurs to the mix. The goal in Dino Island is to run a dinosaur theme park. Park owners will also decide on the placement of burger stands, haunted houses, and other popular attractions. Mini-games include racing, steeplechases, fighting, a destruction derby, team sports, and capture the goat. Players will attempt to attract tourists by assembling an impressive, and scary, collection of dinosaurs. Players will begin the game with 20 basic dinos, but breeding and genetic design allow the creation of thousands of everyone's favorite extinct reptiles. With Dino Island, everyone who's ever wanted to own their own personal Jurassic Park can get to work and start breeding dinosaurs.

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