Overview
Designed as a showpiece for Savage Entertainment's Sabertooth Engine that they hoped to license out to developers, Jurassic Park: Survival was first announced at E3 2001. A joint publishing effort between Universal Interactive and Konami, Survival was in development for a Holiday 2001 debut on PlayStation 2 to tie into the DVD release of that Summer's blockbuster film, Jurassic Park 3.Story
Though not directly tied to the plot of Jurassic Park 3, Survival was to be set on Isla Sorna and feature, among other dinosaurs, the Spinosaurus first shown off in the movie. Press materials name the main character as both David Vaughn and David Espinoza but regardless of ethnicity he remains a member of a "distinguished science team" sent to the island on "a mission of research". All that science goes right out the window, however, when David discovers that the security team protecting the research substation is actually a group of hired mercenaries sent by a rival corporation to steal dinosaur DNA. Escaping on a helicopter with fellow scientists, the mercenaries shoot them down and leave them for dead, taking other survivors as hostages.Things turn Half-Life as David goes from unassuming scientist to expert marksman and survivalist in order to simultaneously deal with dinosaur attacks, stop the escaping rogue agents, round up his kidnapped colleagues and ultimately escape the island intact.