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Trespasser

Trespasser is a PC game released in 1998. Set one year after the events of the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park and published alongside the film's home video release. The player assumes the role of…

28 October 1998

Trespasser is an adventure developed by Dreamworks Interactive, released 28 October 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Trespasser is

Trespasser is an adventure game developed by Dreamworks Interactive and released in 1998. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game opens with John Hammond reading an excerpt from his memoirs. Hammond is a rich industrialist who used his wealth to assemble a scientific team that cloned dinosaurs. Intent on creating an amusement park showcasing his biological attractions, Hammond's park ultimately fails when the dinosaurs escape. While Jurassic Park was built on Isla Nublar, off the coast of Costa Rica, the animals were raised at an alternate location, Isla Sorna, also named "Site B". Trespasser takes place a year after the events of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, where the general public has learned about the existence of Jurassic Park. The game begins in a dark apartment, where mail is piling up and a phone…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, horror and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Jurassic Park series

Trespasser is the 26th of 80 entries we hold in the Jurassic Park series. It arrived 10 months after The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The next entry was Warpath: Jurassic Park in 1999.

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What it launched against

Trespasser launched on 28 October 1998, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, The House of the Dead 2 and Centipede.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, The House of the Dead 2, Centipede.

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When did Trespasser come out?
Trespasser was released on 28 October 1998 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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