YMMV / Warpath: Jurassic Park

• Fridge Brilliance: The herbivorous dinosaurs like Stygimoloch and Styracosaurus are able to chomp on compies to regain their health alongside their carnivore counterparts. Current theories and the fact that modern herbivorous mammals like deer will consume raw meat from time to time indicate that this may be more scientifically accurate than even the game developers knew or intended.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The core aspect of this game is dinosaurs fighting each other to the death. Decades later, Jurassic World Dominion and Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous will play this idea totally straight by introducing villains who bred dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures simply for no other reason than to force them to fight each other for their own profits and their customers’ amusement.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The fact that in this game you can have a Spinosaurus and a Giganotosaurus fight Rexy years before those two appeared in the movies (although with VERY different designs).
• Narm: While it’s understandable why they did it, it still comes across as jarring seeing dinos that are pretty small in real life suddenly being as big as a damn T-REX, with the Mega Raptor being probably the most blatant example.
  • The abbreviations used for the dinos’ really long scientific names because of the character limit on the select screen and the UI can range from sounding perfectly normal to just plain silly. It can be hard to take a big carnivorous predator seriously as a threat when its name is listed as ALBERTO. Can also be Narm Charm if you’re a dinosaur enthusiast and just can’t get enough of them and use them as nicknames when talking about those specific dinos because they sound so silly.
• No Problem with Licensed Games: Despite it sounding like very obvious cash-grab (a Jurassic Park FIGHTING GAME?), the game was fairly well-received and is fondly remember by a lot of Jurassic Park fans and dinosaur lovers in general because of its amazing graphics, variety of stages and dinos (even going beyond what the movies showed at the time), a surprisingly educational (if a bit outdated nowadays) Museum and even some fighting game veterans consider it to be a very solid (if a bit janky) fighting game.
• Older Than They Think: This game was the first major appearance of Spinosaurus in the Jurassic Park franchise, 2 years before the third film released; though here it is portrayed with an outdated Allosaurus-like skull.
• Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer: For players who are into studying animals like dinosaurs, they can visit the semi-educational mode called Museum and will be distracted for a little while before actually playing the game.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The dinosaurs look AMAZING for PlayStation standards, even surpassing those seen in games like Dino Crisis, if you squint your eyes a bit (or maybe not even that) they actually look very close to early PlayStation 2 models!
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The fact that the game has no real plot to speak for beyond a vague hint that the dinos just got loose and are fighting each other and the personnel are just watching them. If you go in expecting to see even a hint of an overarching plot featuring the characters from the movies, you’re gonna be disappointed.
  • The fact that none of the dinosaurs have endings after beating the arcade mode with them… then again, WHAT ending could you give to a Styracosaurus, exactly?
• Unintentional Period Piece: The unlockable level set at Universal Studios that was added to promote the then recently-opened Florida version of Jurassic Park River Adventure, complete with a commercial for it as your reward for unlocking it, really gives away that the game was made in 1999.

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