For those unfamiliar with the genre, the idea is to use an overhead/god's perspective to build a theme park from scratch, choosing the buildings, where they're going to be placed and how much to charge.
There are missions and exercises separate from Operation Genesis that first teach you and the apply skills that you will need in that main theme park building mode. Let us explore! Gameplay Operation Genesis is the main mode and allows you to build your very own version of Jurassic Park. As the titles we mentioned earlier do a much better job of capturing the elements of what makes the genre so appealing, and goes to prove further why games of this type are so rarely explored outside of the PC. Unfortunately, there aren't too many positives to be found in Operation Genesis beyond its welcome concept. In fact, the developers at Blue Tongue even optimized the controls so the need for keyboard and mouse wasn't even necessary. Besides, as every videogame fan knows, adding dinosaurs to any concept is a plus.
Taking the formula of building and managing a theme park further by replacing roller coasters and bumper cars with dinosaurs and man-eaters, JP at least has a degree of originality. Luckily, that truth is about to change, as we're getting a rare taste of the god/management/strategy genre from Universal Interactive's Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis. There's a "Tycoon" title for every activity on the planet for PC, but console owners don't have much of a choice.