Finally, a video game that lets you run your own Jurassic Park

The perennial failure of video-game movies to capture the magic of their source material has been a hot topic this year – though as well as the boring new cinematic outing for Tomb Raider, 2018 has given us two qualified successes in the form of Ready Player One and Rampage, which suggests some improvement might be on the cards. Historically, video games based on movies have also been disappointingly rubbish. When developers known for their work-for-hire efficiency rather than their specialised talents are given mere months to piece together a game to tie in with a theatrical release, it's perhaps unreasonable to expect much. British studio Frontier Developments is best known for space-exploration epic Elite Dangerous, a modern update to one of the best-remembered games of the 1980s – but this year, it will be releasing a game based upon June's blockbuster Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Frontier has been making theme-park sims since 2003's fondly remembered Rollercoaster Tycoon, in which players were tasked with building up a park from scratch, planning attractions, building facilities, placing pathways, and making as much money as possible without everything going wrong (or all your customers wetting themselves because you forgot to leave enough money for toilets).