Jurassic Park Trespasser: The DNA of Physics

Celebrate Jurassic Park’s 30th anniversary with this video about a Jurassic Park game that only me and a select few other weirdos actually like! Also this is totally the reason why I made this video and not an extreme coincidence. That's why I never mention the anniversary even once!
Super special thanks this time around to ‪@GhoulCityOnline‬ for not only making the thumbnail but also editing the intro. This project suffered a major setback and his help was invaluable. Also a big thanks to Trescom for answering my questions.
Link to the game: collectionchamber.blogspot.co...
Trescom:www.trescom.org/
#jurrassicpark #30thanniversary #trespasser

[@FraudDepartmentYT]

Super big shout out to @GhoulCityOnline this project suffered a major set back and he stepped in to do the intro to keep the whole thing on track. Super grateful for his involvement. He's got some banger videos so go check those out.

[@thatoneguy3408]

Props to this game for being for being the only thing Gabe and the team had to refrence off of when creating the physics engine for Half-Life

[@panqueque445]

3:19 "The specs were so impressive, even high end computers at the time had trouble running it" So ahead of its time.

[@JLProPhoto]

Physics-based gameplay, open environments, iron-sight aiming, environmental storytelling, releasing buggy messes that get fixed by patches and the community... The game was truly ahead of its time. I played it enough on release that the only poem I can recite from memory is from this game (Ozymandias). It was so ambitious that it captivated me despite all of its flaws.

[@WeebGilroy]

This is it. This is why I waste so much of my life trawling KZbin - to once in a while find something that connects with me as much as this video.

[@Imotep5530]

Dinos when they see Anne: She is running like a speed demon!

[@runarvollan]

Not in vanilla version though.. that is some intense scheisse * 620x480 resolution * brightness 0% * no patches

[@dipshidian]

@@runarvollan Yeah, I don't know why nobody bothered fixing the version 1.1 bunny-hopping issue in later fan-made patches. I get that it makes jumping less unresponsive but it also breaks Trespasser quite a bit in the survival department.

[@NoNameEntered]

Great video! This is my favorite game of all time, for its technical ambition, uniqueness, and also peaceful feeling. Correction at 33:38, it's not stock suspense music! All the music for Trespasser was composed custom. It only became stock music later when they licensed it out.

[@FraudDepartmentYT]

That's actually a really awesome fact! Thanks for telling me.

[@freeman8857]

Great video man! I agree with you that Half Life isn't that pioneer in game physics that many want you to believe. HL just did what most great works throughout time have done, that is. Take inspiration of previous works, build/improve on top of it and even combine or even straight out plagiarize existing creations. HL took the best of many worlds, improve upon them and combined all that into a single work of art. I'm a huge HL fan, specially the lore part. I as many other people are lead to believe that HL is this pioneer in gaming physics, uncut gameplay, puzzles, etc. As soon as I reached the beach playground area to test out the game's physics with all the objects specially the wooden crates, the HL vibes was uncanny... Do you how prevalent are these wooden crates throughout all HL games? There use in HL to progress the story, just like in JPT. Have you've seen how platform jumping is prevalent in HL? JPT has plenty of this, specially the "interactive" bridges like the rotating wooden bridge, which is also in HL1. When I played HL I thought valve was so innovative with their uncut uninterrupted gameplay, until I saw JPT already did this uninterrupted gameplay... Not to mention all the physics based puzzles you have to solve in JPT in order to advance level, just like in all HL games. It's more than obvious that valve took inspiration in this revolutionary ahead of it's time masterpiece called Jurassic Park Trespasser. I even heard somewhere that valve became "frightened" when JPT, an advanced, pioneering, innovative game became a commercial failure. The Easter eggs in JPT are one of the most satisfying I've ever encountered in video games, specially all the ones in the Jungle road level . (I'm a huge JP fan) Also in the level where you have to find a green card, I see everyone finding it inside a container but on my first gameplay I found it in another place, and it was relatively quick to find. So are there 2 green cards? I never found the yellow card. I also never did the "big lie" backwards code to open the town door, I immediately found the sewer entrance xD. This was my first ever gameplay of JPT, a 10/10 game. The hand movement is very quirky at first but once you get used to it it's so revolutionary! I adapted the controls of keyboard to joystick with the use of "joytokey" software, highly recommended for people who despise playing with keyboard just like me. I'm surely playing JPT again and again!

[@TheColonelAutumn]

You forgot hammonds diary in the mansion.

[@dipshidian]

18:31 The first official version 1.1 patch introduced the bunny-hopping, breaking a lot of the survival challenge in Trespasser. The patch changed the jumping behavior to fix the often unresponsive jumping that could get you killed when trying platforming over deadly heights, but it also made it possible to accelerate faster with repeat jumps.

[@edgartheface]

This is an amazing video and you deserve way more views for all this effort!

[@HouseClarkzonian]

This is the Game I'd love to see remastered, cleaned up and with modern graphic. Tresspasser has to be one of my favorite games of all time and honestly i agree with everything you said about the game and Half Life 2

[@erickvonengelwalten8568]

One of the best game i ever played. I hope someone RTX soon.

[@jessesainthimmel]

Excellent video and channel, you deserve way more subs. A friend of mine in 7th grade would rant in a melodramatic fashion about how terrible this game was and how he regretted buying it. I thought the premise of a Jurassic Park FPS sounded amazing so I told him that I would take it if he didn't want it. He did indeed give me the game and told me to never try to give it back to him. It certainly wasn't what I was expecting, the movement was bizarre and unlike anything at the time, the levels felt very lonely, the dinosaurs would bounce around as they walked and behaved unpredictably. But I ended up playing through the whole thing because, for all its flaws, it was kind of captivating; the world felt alien and almost impenetrable. The secrets and easter eggs scattered around lent to this atmosphere as well. I struggle to think of another game that evokes a similar vibe, intentionally or otherwise.

[@dipshidian]

11:25 Melee combat is a lot easier if you use the weapon firing key (left mouse button commonly) instead of manually moving the arm around. By holding the firing key Anne automatically performs repeated swings with melee or empty projectile weapons, which can result in easy kills (especially with the baseball bats, steel bars or empty SPAS-12s) on raptors early in the game. You might have to move the arm to the edge of the screen to get a good swing going, but it works well enough. The myth about melee combat in Trespasser being completely ineffective is one of those commonly cited third-party-sourced lies that many people unfortunately end up spreading around.

[@thisplaceiswack2417]

I absolutely love your use of yyh background music.

[@yuzip]

great vid, nice seeing someone with passion explaining what's good about infamous or niche games

[@Jnensrevenge]

The Lost World book is pretty good. Especially for an cash-in written to be made into a movie that ingnored most of it.

[@williamarthurfenton1496]

This game is extraordinary for the time, and far too ahead of its time. I'd like to see it remade in a similar style to Alien Isolation.

[@megaraptora]

We are kind of getting a spiritual successor to it. Hope it turns out good! kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5rRpIF4hLmBr7csi=ez75whby1kx9uVd-

[@GhoulCityOnline]

For real though, I think this is your best one yet.

[@parkmallbaby]

I like to imagine her other arm was injured during the crash anyway there is something about early 2000s forest and jungle game aesthetics that creates this diehard communities that will continue to exist for decades. Just like the old Carnivores series, and the Deer Hunter franchise from the mid-2000s that still spew maps, and mods to this day.

[@MarcHDJ81v]

I really wish they would remake this game

[@facopse]

This game has more physics dann most modern shooters.

[@ViktorLofgren]

As a model Fraud Department viewer, I like the video and post a comment too, so that youtube's silly algorithm understands this is a good channel and then it grows and reaches the audience it deserves.

[@FraudDepartmentYT]

I thank you for it brother!

[@dipshidian]

3:05 This is me being a massive nitpicker, but the original Need For Speed (1994) on the 3DO used a physics engine (Newtonian mechanics) before Trespasser did. It used it for cars so that you watch car crashes with spectacular flips and tumbles governed by the laws of physics. I understand that you are probably referring to a physics engine in a slightly different context (3D video game heavily centered around the manipulation of physicalized objects), so please excuse my pedanticism.

[@runarvollan]

Most intense version? Unpatched vanilla on 640x480 resolution, with brightness at 0%.

[@FraudDepartmentYT]

Yeah If I had to play it like that I'd probably agree with the critics.

[@lamella64]

those who criticise the controls probably never tried to aim a gun to be honest. if you've never done it then you wouldn't know how finiky it is in real life.

[@supabass4003]

The Genesis game was pretty good.

[@theguyinthere]

The only thing this game ever did right was inspire the physics in Half Life 2. I used to play this on my cousins computer in the late 90's and i could never get passed the first stage without rage quitting.

[@Kaboose666]

I think you missed the whole video if that was your take on it. The game is flawed to be sure, but it is both an excellent and unique game. Honestly, people who gave the broken version (one that could barely run on the current hardware) give it a new try.

[@mushuwu]

Ahh, Ace Combat 3 music. A man of culture I see

[@bennettfender9927]

I’d say Lost World was a solid film personally not as good as the original but still damn good after that though the series definitely went down hill however.

[@XPGaming01]

Did you purchase this a run it on a modern console or did you sail the seven seas?

[@NickLavic]

You are not meant to kill the first green T. Rex, in fact you're not meant to kill any of them, except the one next to the Maya temple. (Yes, the ancient Isla Sorna civilization is meant to be the Maya people.) Also, you forgot Nedry's mace, the best melee weapon in the game. Aside from that, great video!

[@GhoulCityOnline]

My favorite dinosaur is a velociraptor. Let me know yours in the replies

[@ekurt1727]

Ankylosaurus

[@gilrom6367]

Spinosaurus

[@supabass4003]

derpasaurus

[@waldosanchez9627]

Nah bro dinosaurs are too scary for me

[@horatiosans4208]

This video was so good I decided not to devour any Nicaraguan orphans today 👍

[@FraudDepartmentYT]

Glad I could keep the orphans alive, even if its for only a day.

[@adrianagonzalez1235]

Does anyone know how I can get a hold of this game?

[@FraudDepartmentYT]

I have it linked in the description

[@supabass4003]

Riks Random Retro made the obvervation that this game actually looks better than Far Cry (not on max settings).

[@FraudDepartmentYT]

I'd say it has at the very least more variety than the first Far Cry, but even as a big fan of Trespasser. Far Cry is a pretty beautiful looking game.