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Jurassic Park III: Island Attack (known as Jurassic Park III: Advance Action in Japan and Jurassic Park III: Dino Attack in Europe) is a game for the Game Boy Advance

Game Boy Advance

The is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001; and in the People's Republic of China...

. The main goal is to travel through 8 areas of Isla Sorna to reach the coast. (Much like the Jurassic Park III

Jurassic Park III

Jurassic Park III is a 2001 American science fiction film and the third of the Jurassic Park franchise. It is the only film in the series that is neither directed by Steven Spielberg nor based on a book by Michael Crichton, though numerous scenes in the movie were taken from Crichton's two books,...

film.) The story, being the only JP III license to follow the plot of the film instead of acting as franchise, begins where you crash land on Isla Sorna. You play as Dr.Grant. You use a cell phone to contact the coast guard. They tell you that they can't reach you by air and tell you to head to the coast of the Isla Sorna to be rescued. It is rated

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 E for Everyone.

There are many dinosaurs that you will confront during this dangerous quest, including
Velociraptor

Velociraptor

Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. The type species is V. mongoliensis; fossils...

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Compsognathus

Compsognathus

Compsognathus was a small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. The animal was the size of a turkey and lived around 150 million years ago, the early Tithonian stage of the late Jurassic Period, in what is now Europe. Paleontologists have found two well-preserved fossils, one in Germany...

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Dilophosaurus

Dilophosaurus

Dilophosaurus was a theropod dinosaur from the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic Period, about 193 million years ago. The first specimens were described in 1954, but it was not until over a decade later that the genus received its current name...

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Gallimimus

Gallimimus

Gallimimus is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. With individuals as long as , it was one of the largest ornithomimosaurs...

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Pachycephalosaurus

Pachycephalosaurus

Pachycephalosaurus is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. Remains have been excavated in Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming. It was an herbivorous or omnivorous creature which is only known from a single skull and a few...

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Pteranodon

Pteranodon

Pteranodon , from the Late Cretaceous geological period of North America in present day Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota, was one of the largest pterosaur genera and had a maximum wingspan of over...

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Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus meaning "tyrant," and sauros meaning "lizard") is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex , commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is a fixture in popular culture. It lived throughout what is now western North America, with a much wider range than other...

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Spinosaurus

Spinosaurus

Spinosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in what is now North Africa, from the lower Albian to lower Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 112 to 97 million years ago. This genus was first known from Egyptian remains discovered in 1912 and described by German...

Gameplay

The gameplay of this game is fairly easy and customizable. There are two types of levels: freeroam, and forward only. Every level uses freeroam, with the exception of The Plain, The Glen, and part of The Breeding Farm. There are two camera angles, also: overview, and cross-section. The levels using cross-section camera angles are The Plain, The Glen, and The Breeding Farm. The rest of the levels use the overview camera.

Levels

The levels in this game are as follows.

• The Landing Point

The start of the game. This level acts as a tutorial level. To pass the level, the player needs to defeat the Boss of this level, the Tyrannosaurus.

• The Laboratory

This level introduces a new enemy, Dilophosaurus. To pass the level, the player needs to restore power to the laboratory and get a motorcycle key by defeating the Boss of this level: a Dilophosaurus pack.

• The Plain

With the motorcycle from the previous level, the player needs to ride away from the laboratory and the pack of Velociraptor chasing Grant. The level ends when the player reaches the end.

• The Glen

The player must go through the glen to pass the level while avoiding a group of Pachycelaphosaurus. The wire is obtained at the beginning of the level, as is the tranquilizer.

• The Museum

Trapped inside the museum, the player needs to find another way out, while avoiding the Dilophosaurus and the Velociraptor.

• The Breeding Farm

In this level, the player must scale the mountain to pass the level. The wire is reused in this level. At the top of the mountain, the player needs to defeat the Pteranodon. After doing so, the player then needs to use the parachute and avoid Pteranodons while gliding off the mountain.

• The Jungle

In this rainy level, the player must get out of the jungle to pass the level. Pteranodons make a reappearance in this level. To pass the level, the player must defeat the pack of Compsognathus.

• The Harbor

The last level. To pass the level, the player must re-defeat the previous Bosses: Tyrannosaurus, Dilophosaurus, and, if wanted, Compsognathus (not Pteranodon), and re-escape the Spinosaurus to make it to the boat and get off the island.

Differences from the movie

The game was only looselly based on the movie Jurassic Park III. Therefore, there were some differences.

• Alan Grant's reason for travelling to the island differs from that in the film.
• The plane Alan Grant came in was taken down by Pteranodon, but in the movie it crashed after hitting the Spinosaurus.
• Alan Grant is the only crash survivor in the game.
• The colors of the Velocirapors and Dilophosaurs differ from the colors used in the films.
• Dilophosaurus was not in the third Jurassic Park movie.
• There was no motorcycle scene in the movie. This has been taken from the novel The Lost World.
• In the cutscene between The Glen and The Museum, the gate from the movie Jurassic Park can be seen, however this appeared in the first movie, and in Isla Nublar, not Isla Sorna.
• There never was a glen in the movie.
• The Breeding Farm was the Aviary in the movie. This was taken from the novel Jurassic Park.
• There was no harbor in the movie.
• The Tyrannosaurus Rex reappeared in the game, but was killed by the Spinosaurus early in the movie.