Prehistoric Kingdom is the same Planet Zoo, only with prehistoric animals! Personally, I prefer Jurassic World Evolution because it is the original, and Prehistoric Kingdom is a copy or should I say a parody of Jurassic World Evolution and Planet Zoo.
@@rapdalv9405 😂 prehistoric Kingdom devs stared creating the game in February 14th, 2014, the game takes inspiration from JPOG, prehistoric park not JWE or planet zoo (both game haven’t came out yet) and its definitely not a copy.
Planet Zoo, Jurassic World Evolution, and Prehistoric Kingdom take me back to when I was a kid playing Zoo Tycoon 2. The inspiration is obvious and it warms my heart. Zoo Tycoon's legacy lives on.
I also grew up playing Zoo Tycoon 2 a lot as well mate, it was such a fantastic game and I’m glad to see its legacy lives on in games like Planet Zoo, Prehistoric Kingdom and Jurassic World Evolution 2.
I think it's worth pointing out that PK plans to have steam workshop support, so if you're not into building everything by hand, and you're not a fan of the PK prefabs, then hopefully soon you'll be able to just see what other people have made and find things to your liking
Evo is so sweet, doing a direct comparison and still managing to convince people that both are great games is very wholesome. Very entertaining video :)
@@Chromecast_Eternal I've never played Jurassic Kingdom. The only reason Jwe2 isn't "finished" is because of the movies and TV shows adding more. The people making it are listening to the fans and make the game better.
I love that PK coveres not only dinosaurs but also the fauna of the Pleistocene. I really hope they do more of that, and maybe include some of the weirdos of the Triassic period or some Permian animals
Both games look fantastic (haven’t played Prehistoric Kingdom yet). It really does comes down to “what am I in the mood to play”, not “Prehistoric Kingdom is accurate, ergo, it’s better” or “JWE is better because it’s JP” JWE is about building your Jurassic Park/World/Dinosaur preserve. You’re of course going to use the aesthetics of the universe to build your park. Prehistoric Kingdom is trying to be more like a Modern Zoo with dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. So the aesthetic can be what you want, Modern, Rundown, completely out of the box, etc.
No, PK is WAAAY better. I don't play, but how do I know? Well because JWE2 is a fucking mess. Literally all my dinosaurs die for no reason and I can't do anything about it. Literally no point in even playing it.
there are some people who think that the two games are very similar but in reality they are very different in many things and by the way I really liked the video :)
yeah just because you can describe them both as "dinosaur park builders" people think they are the same. I got a lot of comments along the lines off "JWE2 is dead ones PK comes out", but I disagree. It's not a competition, let's just be happy we have both :)
@@EvolutionSquare I also agree with Nigel marven comment. He is worth more (no offense to the actors I love them all) then them in games because he is so god damn, well I ain’t gay but dude is a chad
I'm glad you're giving JWE2 some love, and the fact that we have two increidble dinosaur park-builders that, despite the same catergory, cater to a different gameplay vibe.
Another difference in the dinosaurs is that PK uses different skins to represent different taxa for certain animals. IE one of the Tyrannosaurus skins is Tarbosaurus.
I think that above all else, the existence of both games will create healthy competition which will lead to improvements for both games as they learn from one another and we as the players will only benefit.
From what I can tell Prehistoric Kingdom's gameplay is much closer to Planet Zoo than it is JWE 1 or 2. I played it for an hour and felt it was lacking in too many areas to continue but I look forward to its development to come. It definitely will be played as much as I played Planet Zoo once finished.
You nailed it. The customization in Prehistoric Kingdom looks insane, but it does also requires a ton of creativity and effort to make your park look pretty. Whereas in Jurassic World evolution 2 you can craft a nice looking park much faster and just focus on the overall presentation of your park. I do love the scientific accurate approach to dinoes in PK and how detailed it seems to go into caring for them, but JWE2's more easy to build a park is currently a lot more relaxing experience I'd feel. Either way, it's amazing to see we're getting more and more choices for dinosaur games!
@@mertarican5456 cause when u were a kid games were much simpler. Sims 1, half life 1, quake, age of empires 1, the many tycoon games... all was simpler and it was so much fun anyway. There needs to be a balance between simplicity and complexity. When I play one of these games I just wanna sit back and relax, designing a park with ease and putting some dinosaurs on it, not design every single god damn shop and building. If anything, the best aproach would be to have the simplicity of JWE2 + the option to also add custom stuff to it like simcity and cities skylines.
Totally agree that they're two different games, good for their own reasons. I can pick up JWE2 and play for 3-4 hours, build a really nice looking park or do a challenge mode, and I'm happy. Having only just got to touch PK yesterday, its a totally different intention when I load in. I would play that because I want the detail control, to set something up that I've created myself from assembled parts.. and that's way more than an afternoons play time.
As someone who has eagerly awaited Prehistoric Kingdom, and often been very critical of JWE and JWE2, I think it's very fair to compare them at their current stage, even if it does seem like Prehistoric Kingdom will probably catch up in some regards. After all, we have all seen games where "don't worry they are early access they will fix it" issues never actually get fixed, or hell, ones where the devs run off with the money. Not that I would assume such behaviour from the PK devs. Also, I am really glad that Prehistoric Kingdom appears to be shaping up to be less annoying in many ways than Planet Zoo, that game always makes me want to pull hair and teeth out even when it's cooperating with me.
Overall, I liked this video quite a bit, especially because of its nuanced take on the games and the fact that Evo understands jwe2 and pk are different games and shouldn't be compared, and I think pz is just as great as them in my opinion, and it's really great we have both
Prehistoric Kingdom: Expert Level Jurassic World Evolution 2: Basic Level Now I’m a JWE2 person, not that I hate PK, I love PK! But I feel like JWE2 has a lot of missing opportunities to make the game feel better. The only thing that would work for me is more terrain tools similar to PK because we have so many park customization but not terrain customization and I feel it’s a bit unbalanced between the two.
Tbh, I can’t wait for Prehistoric Kingdom to be finished. Mainly excited for the Cenozoic animals as the fact that the game has Smilodons and Mammoths is truly amazing.
I love both games! Jurassic World Evolution having the iconic dinosaur models and characters is something I could never pass up, and I like the simplicity of the game in management and building. Prehistoric Kingdom has (or will have) breeding and enrichment, which are both absolute must haves to me!! I’ll play both, but I do wish JWE2 would introduce baby dinosaurs and dinosaur enrichment and shelter.
These games are great in their own way. Like the Prehistoric Creatures designs, mainly the Dinosaurs and such, more available extinct creatures (especially the mammals like the Mammoths and Smilodon), and the availability and freedom on creativity. Either way, they're both great in their own way. I hope to play these games in the future. (I do have the first JWE on my switch, but I still can't wait to play the 2nd JWE game if it becomes available for the switch.)
I think PK will be great for long term customisation. Some of the parks I've seen in Planet Coaster are just amazing, but it'll take weeks of patience to achieve. JW is better at focusing on the Dino's themselves and although lacking the level of detail that PK offers, it'll take the crown when it comes to building up that massive collection of Dino's. I do really, really like the addition of the small mammals and birds in PK tho. But then JW fights back with its marine creatures.
JWE2 and Planet zoo had a baby.🤣. Sadly I cant get my hands on the game until late June when it is my birthday but I get to watch you make BEAUTIFUL exhibits!!!!
I remember the concert art for PK years ago had aviaries, lagoons and flying and aquatic reptiles. I’m sure they’ll make it into the final version of the game
Look at their Facebook cover photo from 2015. There’s lagoons, aviaries, rides ect. If they didn’t think or plan of added them way back then then they hyped it for nothing. I’ve been following this game since 2015 and their early concept art shows marine reptiles ect so they definitely have thought about it back then.
Maybe not in the full release version, but perhaps in DLCs later on. The money they make from selling this game they could have a bit more of that funding to work on content quicker and have DLCs every few months
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The Jwe franchise have been my comfort game it helps so much when I’m stressed Because like you said its easy but prehistoric kingdom has so many cool things that jwe and jwe2 dont have I will get prehistoric kingdom tomorrow and i hope its good!
Number of Species =/= Number of Species Jurassic World Evolution only has about ~30 species if we are talking species that are actually different in a meaningful way. Most of them are just slight changes to the same base form, with different statistics (attack, defense etc.) and colours. Just like in Operation Genesys, there's no reason to include 5x recolours of everything.
I just found your channel, I'm excited to watch some JWE2 content :D I like that you keep respect for both games while comparing them. I don't have a PC so I only just now heard of Prehistoric Kingdom, but it looks fun too! Certainly more sandbox-y than JWE2, with more customization options, while JWE2 likes to stick with its theme 🦖 Right now I'm just stuck trying to even get close to starting a park in Jurassic difficulty challenge mode 😅
evo , to be honest , for fans that like to biuld a realeastic movie recreation , they can do it in prehistoric kingdom , but for jwe 2 is like less things to us , but i do respect your opinion but prehistoric is still gonna add dinosaurus , and things
I really like that you are pretty neutral on the situation. I have met some fans that fight and fight on which game is "better" but they're really just different games and it just comes down to the mood of which game do I play lol.
They both have different feels to them. PK its more like Plant Zoo, so there's a bigger focus on pure customization and park management. There's also the plus of more scientifically accurate dinosaurs. The only thing holding it back currently is that the game is still in early access and is lacking the content of a full released game. JWE2 doubles down heavily on the pre-establish universe, which is awesome in its own right. It trades in some of the realism, customization and park sim aspects for sheer immersion. I love walking around in first person or driving the famous Jeeps from the films. And setting the JP style raptors loose in the park never gets old. Both are 100% worth playing. The experience is different enough to give both a try.
For me personally it’s the same with everything I like, Dinosaur games are Dinosaur games and what’s not to love about more of them. But at the same time, one does feature our lord and saviour Nigel Marvin
I really love them both but the thing about prehistoric kingdom is it’s a PC game meanwhile for evolution you can play it on any console(except Nintendo…I think?) which is a huge downside for me and Xbox and PlayStation players
How do updates work. Do you have to manually update and pay or does it do it automatically without you having to pay. Would someone please answer pretty soon because I’m thinking about getting Prehistoric Kingdom.
Some issues I saw with this game when playing was that it's very dark at night time and when ur building the buildings don't flatten the ground so sometimes one side will be floating over the ground
Prehistoric Kingdom also plans to have aquatic animals, at least in the distant future, as far as I can tell. Knowing the studio working on it, I have complete faith that PK will be finished in no time
Great video! I used to play Zoo Tycoon as a teen, it was really fun. For some reason, PK looks way more friendly to me, it made me want to get it. I’ve actually played JP2 and I was so disappointed. It was a bit too ‘serious looking’ I’d say.
To me the Dinosaur park builder games comes down to the dinosaurs... and PK is way behind JWE2 here, not just for the numbers but the behaivior too. The Dinosaurs in PK just dont do that much... they dont run around, the dont run in packs, they dont fight, they are.... "cows" more or less. I love sometimes just to watch my dinosaurs in my park, i can spend hours like that in JWE2 just watching them. In PK that gets boring very fast. And i dont think they can add that much in that regard any time soon. Building wise PK is way better, and you spend most of the time to just "build" things and the dinosaurs are more or less not the main part of the game. Oh... and just like JWE2, PK has performance issues the bigger the park gets. While in JWE2 the FPS and overall performance breaks at a certain amount of dinosaurs in the park (around 800 or so), in PK the performance will go down a lot sooner if you build the buildings on your own. That is an issue they must solve before even adding more species. Well... the performance break point for JWE2 will never be fixed though... and yeah the "complex" Ai in JWE2 is a leading to many bugs too... thats not a problem in PK cause the Ai is so basic it doesnt run into problems. Nonetheless both games are great and yeah, its a good time for dinosaurs fans for sure.... well for gamers though, the movies were bonkers shitty.
ive got a question, Alot of places it says that to get the dino species IN SANDBOX in JWE2 you have to do quests to get them in, (franchise, quest mode or whatever its called) first or do you just imediately get the all the non-dlc dino's? in sandbox, like in planet zoo
I think Planet Zoo is a bigger competitor with Prehistoric Kingdom than Jurassic World Evolution simply by design principles. After all, in Jurassic World Evolution you have movie monsters and in Prehistoric Kingdom you have animals. It is still very early in the early access, so I do think if someone wants to wait for a while it's probably for the best. If you want to manage a park, the game is definetly not ready yet.
i would say you forgot to mention that some species also got subspecies like trex and tarbosaurus, which does have some differences in terms of requirements and a slight change in the model. so in that way it does have more then just 23 species. (its something i would say the devs also tends to ignore despite it being a great way to increase diversity).
Imagine a combo of the games like prehistoric kingdom with skin colors and line up size of evolution keeping legacy skins and buildings have a tab to pull from the community
Haven’t heard of prehistoric kingdom before even though I love Dino’s. When she got to the celebrity comparison, I thought “Who can compare with today’s iconic Dino celebrities from the Jurassic world franchise”. The moment she showed Nigel, flashes of walking with dinosaur spin-offs ran through my head and my mouth was wide open. Didn’t expect to be that excited
In my opinion, jwe2 is more simple All it takes is a few decorations, a few different paths, and some enclosures to have a nice beginner park And prehistoric kingdom is for creative people It has much more building materials so you can make your own buildings, it’s like an ocean of creativity
In my opinion, I think JWE2 is more of a relaxed Dinosaur park building game, while PK is a more detailed game for people with more patience and attention to detail.
Both games are really awesome, but also both games aren't complete Pk is now in Early access and JwE2 like you said has few thing cut out from the game to avoid spoilers to Jw:D (Dominion chaos theory and possibly a bigger campaign).
PK looks awesome! I’m definitely considering getting it. Question: does buying the early access also mean you’ll get the full version included when it comes out? I’m in graduate school so money is a little tight, and I don’t want to pay twice for the same game.
I would say that considering the devs of pk’s commitment and rapid rate development that when the game fully launches there will be 50 animals with many more on the way
rapid rate of development? This game, in it's current form, first demo'd in 2017 ;) Not bashing the developers here, they've pulled off something amazing and I have faith in them, but the complete, finished game, could very well still take a very long time.
All tho Prehistoric Kingdom sounds great, I'm a JWE-2 fanboy... Also my only "gaming" tech is a good ol' xbox one, the original one. So that makes me only aviable to play JWE-2... Maybe in the future i'll try it. And I will gladly watch comming content from you and others! ❤
Aaah I never wanted a pc more than now! All these awesome dinosaur park building games. I'm gonna cry in a corner for a while. Have a blast with the game✌🏾🦖
I feel that if Universal had decided, by some miracle, not to extend the JWE franchise to it's next evolution, this comparison would be quite different, and possibly more in the favor of PK. But Frontier really brought their A game and, despite being limited by some of the mechanics of the past game, the dinosaurs, building mechanics, etc., they managed to explore new territory that only served to ENHANCE the skeleton they had before. Little details here and there, and completely new ideas and mechanics created the game that most people truly wanted. You also mentioned the finished product. JWE1 was finished. PK is still not. Some were unsatisfied with where JWE1 left off, because it felt like they should have continued, but they did continue it in its sequel, and arguabley on a better foot. That's my two minute take.
Definitely think Prehistoric Kingdom should take inspriation from jwe2 mainly in the the social interaction between species. I love jwe2 for those interactions makes the animals more animal than killing machine. The "itch scratching" animations would be an amazing touch too
very nice video! i just found this channel and since i haven't play any of these games this was really helpfull. I have many hours on planet zoo and JWE 1 and although i will propably check them both i think i will go with Prehestoric Kingdom first and i really hope they will add more species in the future beacuse it looks fantastic game
Although I love games like Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo or PK, I just don't have the time nor the creativity to build really amazing parks. I was unsure whether PK would be as time consuming as PC and PZ, and with this video I definitely got the answer: it is! . For how much I'd love to be able to build something really breathtaking in PK, I guess for now I'll have to go with JW2. Thanks for the video!
Just a question, in JWE 2 how do you have every era of building available to you because i can only use one era at a time so how do you have every era if it's vanilla and not modded? is that a PC only thing? (i'm on XBOX)
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!! (subscribed...Love JWE2 (especially the Homocephale!) but having more room to customize my park will be a welcome addition to my games) Thanks for the great content!
I love the idea of the limitless customization in PK , but after playing around with both Planet Coaster & Zoo, I have to admit that I'm just no longer in a place where I can, or perhaps rather want, to invest as much time into creating digital landscapes and novelty projects. Like she said: Creating something amazing and unique in PK takes a a lot of time and effort. In my teens I would have been all over these games and sunk hundreds of hours in them. Nowadays, I do enjoy the more limited but still enjoyable dinosaur fantasy experience that the Jurassic games offer.
I think almost everyone can agree with me about the fact that we need prehistoric mammals in the jurassic park franchise, and the fact that Mantah corp created a saber tooth tiger(Smilodon) could be the begin of it. id just love to see mammoths, giant sloths, megaloceros, entelodon and even include other prehistoric and famous creatures like megalodon
The only issues I have with PK are some of the default key bindings and the ui layout. Bc it's early access I'm sure the ui will go thru a lot of retooling but it took me longer than any other zoo game I've played to understand where everything is.
I can't play the game bc i have the same issue with JWE2 my laptop is quite old and i am saving up money for a pc but the games are just to powerfull for my laptop to handle :(((( are they available on ps4???
You left out one thing(not meaning to be rude)their also adding marin animals not to mention reptiles like sarcosuches and deinosuches and with the water depth feature we can make rivers with aquatic life in them also spinosaures is planed I think so we can possibly have swimming animations for it to.
I think I made it very clear in this video that I am not considering things that are not in the game, because we don't know when or IF they are ever coming. That's the deal with an Early Access product, you gotta look at it AS IS, they are even legally required to state so on steam
I am currently downloading Prehistoric kingdom on my Steam and one of big differences from JWE2 I love is that our animals can breed and have babies :3 In JWE2 you need a mod for babies I think, if there wasnt an update :D I wanna create something like big open park - only one massive habitat where would animals live like in wild. I tried it on JWE2 but I didnt want everytime manualy add new dinos by myself while still working on map... But still it was good time playing it :D
I love both of these games. If you wanna make a realistic dinosaur zoo, use prehistoric kingdom. If you wanna make a sci-fi movie monster attraction, use Jurassic World evolution two
I can appreciate both. JWE is faithful to the movies while PK is faithful to science. JWE is better for less creative builders (like me), while PK lets you be more creative.
It's disappointing considering how awesome Planet Zoo is with its details. You would think Frontier would have added some of those same ideas from the get-go. You can tell PK took those ideas and rolled with it. Mini exhibits, shelter, even the tilting of objects, etc. Stuff I thought Frontier would have added into JWE2 after making Planet Zoo. JWE definitely lacked those extra details.
I'm really wanting both games. I think PK would be INCREDIBLE if they released small theropods like Stokesosaurus or dilophosaurus. But the game already looks incredible enough. JWE2 looks like a MASSIVE improvement from the first one. I just can't afford a 60$ game often
I just hate how expensive Jurassic World evolution 2 is right now but I'm happy with any dinosaur game honestly but I really love the Scientifically accurate dinosaurs . Just because I grew up with dinosaur documentarys all the BBC ones and the discovery ones especially Dinosaur planet but I remember most of all prehistoric Park on animal planet, Prehistoric kingdom really makes me happy like I'm finally able to make a park just like the show!
So like PK is like planet zoo with dinosaurs, witch I love while JWE2 more casual and more like what you imagine the movies would be like as a management sim. I adore both I just cannot wait until PK gets finnished
I think with the upcoming steam workshop support the gap will close more and more in terms of how quick you can build a park, already there are numerous prefabs you can download on the PK discord server that are JP/JW themed. I think Universal is very aware of this, on the day PK launched into early access they released a new, discounted package for JWE, just by coincidence?
Thanks for the comparison. I switched to PK strictly because of the editing tools not only for creating terrain/landscape, but also edit/moving already laid down objects. If only JWE2 had this functionality. I would stick with JWE2. I do like the fact that JWE2 has a lot more prefabs. However, PK does have a steam workshop full of prefabs. So, you can have the best of both worlds in PK. Because honestly. Sometimes I don't want to do modular, but I wish JWE2 had more modular. JWE2 just looks better. But PK has more realistic looking dino's based on what is factuality known at this point in time. I really am not interested in re-creating Jurassic Park movie. Juts nice looking dino parks.
It is a gooood time to be a dinosaur fan! I will be playing both games on the channel :)
Ye but I’m more into je2 besides isn’t ur channel named after je2
Prehistoric Kingdom is the same Planet Zoo, only with prehistoric animals! Personally, I prefer Jurassic World Evolution because it is the original, and Prehistoric Kingdom is a copy or should I say a parody of Jurassic World Evolution and Planet Zoo.
@@rapdalv9405 😂 prehistoric Kingdom devs stared creating the game in February 14th, 2014, the game takes inspiration from JPOG, prehistoric park not JWE or planet zoo (both game haven’t came out yet) and its definitely not a copy.
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Hey evolution square if you see this did you know that there is a dinosaur found in the North Pole named Nanuqsaurs and was actually a Tyrannosaurid.
Planet Zoo, Jurassic World Evolution, and Prehistoric Kingdom take me back to when I was a kid playing Zoo Tycoon 2. The inspiration is obvious and it warms my heart. Zoo Tycoon's legacy lives on.
Fr lol I still have them on my pc 😂
Zoo Tycoon 2 was my favorite game to play on my little DS as a kid. It's a classic
❤ I’m so happy for these games zoo tycoon 1 and 2 was the only game I would play for YEARS (besides the sims lol)
Zoo tycoon was good, but wildlife park 2 had my heart.
I also grew up playing Zoo Tycoon 2 a lot as well mate, it was such a fantastic game and I’m glad to see its legacy lives on in games like Planet Zoo, Prehistoric Kingdom and Jurassic World Evolution 2.
I think it's worth pointing out that PK plans to have steam workshop support, so if you're not into building everything by hand, and you're not a fan of the PK prefabs, then hopefully soon you'll be able to just see what other people have made and find things to your liking
As I addressed in my video: the future is always uncertain, so at the moment I'm not looking at what is *planned*.
@@EvolutionSquare well pk usually adds what they say they will but yeah your never know
this is a dealbreaker. Everygame should have a steam workshop if they care about replayability and lifetime of their game
Hopefully you can make your own dinos and doenload them on the workshop so we dont have to “mod” for dinos
@@DirectorBlitz You will be able to.
Evo is so sweet, doing a direct comparison and still managing to convince people that both are great games is very wholesome. Very entertaining video :)
Also both games are more or less unfinished... I am lacking patience for the future
@@Chromecast_Eternal I've never played Jurassic Kingdom. The only reason Jwe2 isn't "finished" is because of the movies and TV shows adding more. The people making it are listening to the fans and make the game better.
@@foxpatternedferret476 that is a correct statement, also what's jurassic kingdom
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I love that PK coveres not only dinosaurs but also the fauna of the Pleistocene. I really hope they do more of that, and maybe include some of the weirdos of the Triassic period or some Permian animals
Both games look fantastic (haven’t played Prehistoric Kingdom yet).
It really does comes down to “what am I in the mood to play”, not “Prehistoric Kingdom is accurate, ergo, it’s better” or “JWE is better because it’s JP”
JWE is about building your Jurassic Park/World/Dinosaur preserve. You’re of course going to use the aesthetics of the universe to build your park.
Prehistoric Kingdom is trying to be more like a Modern Zoo with dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. So the aesthetic can be what you want, Modern, Rundown, completely out of the box, etc.
Except JWE barely even has any actual movie attractions, buildings and you can reconstruct JP more accurately in PK with all the building pieces.
No, PK is WAAAY better. I don't play, but how do I know? Well because JWE2 is a fucking mess. Literally all my dinosaurs die for no reason and I can't do anything about it. Literally no point in even playing it.
@@goldenamber5168 It’s probably something your doing because you squill have to edit your Dino’s genetics if you want it to last longer or disease
@@mask2609 I have disease turned off.
@@goldenamber5168 do you feed them the right food?
there are some people who think that the two games are very similar but in reality they are very different in many things and by the way I really liked the video :)
yeah just because you can describe them both as "dinosaur park builders" people think they are the same. I got a lot of comments along the lines off "JWE2 is dead ones PK comes out", but I disagree. It's not a competition, let's just be happy we have both :)
@@EvolutionSquare I think the same ;)
Fr my dad thought that JWE2 and PK were the same
@@EvolutionSquare I also agree with Nigel marven comment. He is worth more (no offense to the actors I love them all) then them in games because he is so god damn, well I ain’t gay but dude is a chad
I'm glad you're giving JWE2 some love, and the fact that we have two increidble dinosaur park-builders that, despite the same catergory, cater to a different gameplay vibe.
Another difference in the dinosaurs is that PK uses different skins to represent different taxa for certain animals. IE one of the Tyrannosaurus skins is Tarbosaurus.
Yeah, if we take the different skins/species into account the variety in the roster gets bumped up to about 60 different animals.
@@stoyantodorov2133 careful, because doing that for JWE leaves you with several thousand animals aha.
@@tommcevoy4872 does JWE has skins that represent a different species than the original too?
@@tenerife_sea yeah, one skin is based off bearded dragons
@@tommcevoy4872 no, las skins en jwe no representan diferentes especies, solo son skis
The only problem with Prehistoric Kingdom is its camera system. Do you have a trick to configure them like on JWE?
what do you mean? I don't have an issue with it
Check out the video, there is something in there about the camera tilt, maybe that's what you mean
And it only being on pc
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I think that above all else, the existence of both games will create healthy competition which will lead to improvements for both games as they learn from one another and we as the players will only benefit.
Oh you'd be surprised what kind of competition fandoms can create.
From what I can tell Prehistoric Kingdom's gameplay is much closer to Planet Zoo than it is JWE 1 or 2. I played it for an hour and felt it was lacking in too many areas to continue but I look forward to its development to come. It definitely will be played as much as I played Planet Zoo once finished.
You nailed it. The customization in Prehistoric Kingdom looks insane, but it does also requires a ton of creativity and effort to make your park look pretty. Whereas in Jurassic World evolution 2 you can craft a nice looking park much faster and just focus on the overall presentation of your park. I do love the scientific accurate approach to dinoes in PK and how detailed it seems to go into caring for them, but JWE2's more easy to build a park is currently a lot more relaxing experience I'd feel.
Either way, it's amazing to see we're getting more and more choices for dinosaur games!
I agree
True , it's a bit like blender. You can create lots of things problem is that you need to be skilled
Damn when i was a kid this would not a be "diffrence" this should be a critisizm. Gamers got Lazy.
@@mertarican5456 cause when u were a kid games were much simpler. Sims 1, half life 1, quake, age of empires 1, the many tycoon games... all was simpler and it was so much fun anyway. There needs to be a balance between simplicity and complexity. When I play one of these games I just wanna sit back and relax, designing a park with ease and putting some dinosaurs on it, not design every single god damn shop and building. If anything, the best aproach would be to have the simplicity of JWE2 + the option to also add custom stuff to it like simcity and cities skylines.
Totally agree that they're two different games, good for their own reasons. I can pick up JWE2 and play for 3-4 hours, build a really nice looking park or do a challenge mode, and I'm happy. Having only just got to touch PK yesterday, its a totally different intention when I load in. I would play that because I want the detail control, to set something up that I've created myself from assembled parts.. and that's way more than an afternoons play time.
As someone who has eagerly awaited Prehistoric Kingdom, and often been very critical of JWE and JWE2, I think it's very fair to compare them at their current stage, even if it does seem like Prehistoric Kingdom will probably catch up in some regards. After all, we have all seen games where "don't worry they are early access they will fix it" issues never actually get fixed, or hell, ones where the devs run off with the money. Not that I would assume such behaviour from the PK devs.
Also, I am really glad that Prehistoric Kingdom appears to be shaping up to be less annoying in many ways than Planet Zoo, that game always makes me want to pull hair and teeth out even when it's cooperating with me.
Hell I think they are starting to update things already even just a month after release
Overall, I liked this video quite a bit, especially because of its nuanced take on the games and the fact that Evo understands jwe2 and pk are different games and shouldn't be compared, and I think pz is just as great as them in my opinion, and it's really great we have both
Prehistoric Kingdom: Expert Level
Jurassic World Evolution 2: Basic Level
Now I’m a JWE2 person, not that I hate PK, I love PK! But I feel like JWE2 has a lot of missing opportunities to make the game feel better. The only thing that would work for me is more terrain tools similar to PK because we have so many park customization but not terrain customization and I feel it’s a bit unbalanced between the two.
Tbh, I can’t wait for Prehistoric Kingdom to be finished. Mainly excited for the Cenozoic animals as the fact that the game has Smilodons and Mammoths is truly amazing.
I love both games! Jurassic World Evolution having the iconic dinosaur models and characters is something I could never pass up, and I like the simplicity of the game in management and building. Prehistoric Kingdom has (or will have) breeding and enrichment, which are both absolute must haves to me!! I’ll play both, but I do wish JWE2 would introduce baby dinosaurs and dinosaur enrichment and shelter.
These games are great in their own way. Like the Prehistoric Creatures designs, mainly the Dinosaurs and such, more available extinct creatures (especially the mammals like the Mammoths and Smilodon), and the availability and freedom on creativity.
Either way, they're both great in their own way.
I hope to play these games in the future. (I do have the first JWE on my switch, but I still can't wait to play the 2nd JWE game if it becomes available for the switch.)
I think PK will be great for long term customisation. Some of the parks I've seen in Planet Coaster are just amazing, but it'll take weeks of patience to achieve. JW is better at focusing on the Dino's themselves and although lacking the level of detail that PK offers, it'll take the crown when it comes to building up that massive collection of Dino's. I do really, really like the addition of the small mammals and birds in PK tho. But then JW fights back with its marine creatures.
Una colección compuesta de puros animales idénticos entre si y con diseños horribles
JWE2 and Planet zoo had a baby.🤣. Sadly I cant get my hands on the game until late June when it is my birthday but I get to watch you make BEAUTIFUL exhibits!!!!
I remember the concert art for PK years ago had aviaries, lagoons and flying and aquatic reptiles. I’m sure they’ll make it into the final version of the game
they are not planned. If they were, I'm sure they would have listed that as part of their planning.
Look at their Facebook cover photo from 2015. There’s lagoons, aviaries, rides ect. If they didn’t think or plan of added them way back then then they hyped it for nothing. I’ve been following this game since 2015 and their early concept art shows marine reptiles ect so they definitely have thought about it back then.
@@andrewpayne5093 That doesn't mean they made it into the final list, though. But it would be awesome if they did.
@@andrewpayne5093 Idk if they are planned but I have seen a lot of pictures about underwater creatures and flying animals
Maybe not in the full release version, but perhaps in DLCs later on. The money they make from selling this game they could have a bit more of that funding to work on content quicker and have DLCs every few months
Two videos in one day, perfect 👌🏻🤩
I tried to end my own life about 8 years ago. Now I'm happier than I've ever been, and so glad I'm around today to enjoy every wonderful thing this year has given me so far.
The Jwe franchise have been my comfort game it helps so much when I’m stressed Because like you said its easy but prehistoric kingdom has so many cool things that jwe and jwe2 dont have I will get prehistoric kingdom tomorrow and i hope its good!
Hii, did u buy it? If yes, what game do u prefer?
Number of Species =/= Number of Species
Jurassic World Evolution only has about ~30 species if we are talking species that are actually different in a meaningful way. Most of them are just slight changes to the same base form, with different statistics (attack, defense etc.) and colours.
Just like in Operation Genesys, there's no reason to include 5x recolours of everything.
I just found your channel, I'm excited to watch some JWE2 content :D
I like that you keep respect for both games while comparing them. I don't have a PC so I only just now heard of Prehistoric Kingdom, but it looks fun too! Certainly more sandbox-y than JWE2, with more customization options, while JWE2 likes to stick with its theme 🦖
Right now I'm just stuck trying to even get close to starting a park in Jurassic difficulty challenge mode 😅
welcome to the channel!
Yup welcome
Prehistoric kingdom reminds me of planet zoo
evo , to be honest , for fans that like to biuld a realeastic movie recreation , they can do it in prehistoric kingdom , but for jwe 2 is like less things to us , but i do respect your opinion
but prehistoric is still gonna add dinosaurus , and things
I really like that you are pretty neutral on the situation.
I have met some fans that fight and fight on which game is "better" but they're really just different games and it just comes down to the mood of which game do I play lol.
So sad this is not on console ;(
They both have different feels to them. PK its more like Plant Zoo, so there's a bigger focus on pure customization and park management. There's also the plus of more scientifically accurate dinosaurs. The only thing holding it back currently is that the game is still in early access and is lacking the content of a full released game.
JWE2 doubles down heavily on the pre-establish universe, which is awesome in its own right. It trades in some of the realism, customization and park sim aspects for sheer immersion. I love walking around in first person or driving the famous Jeeps from the films. And setting the JP style raptors loose in the park never gets old.
Both are 100% worth playing. The experience is different enough to give both a try.
For me personally it’s the same with everything I like, Dinosaur games are Dinosaur games and what’s not to love about more of them. But at the same time, one does feature our lord and saviour Nigel Marvin
I really love them both but the thing about prehistoric kingdom is it’s a PC game meanwhile for evolution you can play it on any console(except Nintendo…I think?) which is a huge downside for me and Xbox and PlayStation players
How do updates work. Do you have to manually update and pay or does it do it automatically without you having to pay. Would someone please answer pretty soon because I’m thinking about getting Prehistoric Kingdom.
Some issues I saw with this game when playing was that it's very dark at night time and when ur building the buildings don't flatten the ground so sometimes one side will be floating over the ground
Prehistoric Kingdom also plans to have aquatic animals, at least in the distant future, as far as I can tell. Knowing the studio working on it, I have complete faith that PK will be finished in no time
Great video!
I used to play Zoo Tycoon as a teen, it was really fun.
For some reason, PK looks way more friendly to me, it made me want to get it. I’ve actually played JP2 and I was so disappointed. It was a bit too ‘serious looking’ I’d say.
To me the Dinosaur park builder games comes down to the dinosaurs... and PK is way behind JWE2 here, not just for the numbers but the behaivior too. The Dinosaurs in PK just dont do that much... they dont run around, the dont run in packs, they dont fight, they are.... "cows" more or less. I love sometimes just to watch my dinosaurs in my park, i can spend hours like that in JWE2 just watching them. In PK that gets boring very fast. And i dont think they can add that much in that regard any time soon. Building wise PK is way better, and you spend most of the time to just "build" things and the dinosaurs are more or less not the main part of the game. Oh... and just like JWE2, PK has performance issues the bigger the park gets. While in JWE2 the FPS and overall performance breaks at a certain amount of dinosaurs in the park (around 800 or so), in PK the performance will go down a lot sooner if you build the buildings on your own. That is an issue they must solve before even adding more species. Well... the performance break point for JWE2 will never be fixed though... and yeah the "complex" Ai in JWE2 is a leading to many bugs too... thats not a problem in PK cause the Ai is so basic it doesnt run into problems.
Nonetheless both games are great and yeah, its a good time for dinosaurs fans for sure.... well for gamers though, the movies were bonkers shitty.
Great vid evo! You are right there should be no discourse. It’s truly the best time in history for humans who are fans of dinosaurs
ive got a question, Alot of places it says that to get the dino species IN SANDBOX in JWE2 you have to do quests to get them in, (franchise, quest mode or whatever its called) first
or do you just imediately get the all the non-dlc dino's? in sandbox, like in planet zoo
I think Planet Zoo is a bigger competitor with Prehistoric Kingdom than Jurassic World Evolution simply by design principles. After all, in Jurassic World Evolution you have movie monsters and in Prehistoric Kingdom you have animals.
It is still very early in the early access, so I do think if someone wants to wait for a while it's probably for the best. If you want to manage a park, the game is definetly not ready yet.
i would say you forgot to mention that some species also got subspecies like trex and tarbosaurus, which does have some differences in terms of requirements and a slight change in the model. so in that way it does have more then just 23 species. (its something i would say the devs also tends to ignore despite it being a great way to increase diversity).
Imagine a combo of the games like prehistoric kingdom with skin colors and line up size of evolution keeping legacy skins and buildings have a tab to pull from the community
Haven’t heard of prehistoric kingdom before even though I love Dino’s. When she got to the celebrity comparison, I thought “Who can compare with today’s iconic Dino celebrities from the Jurassic world franchise”. The moment she showed Nigel, flashes of walking with dinosaur spin-offs ran through my head and my mouth was wide open. Didn’t expect to be that excited
I hope PK focuses more on other animals rather than just dinosaurs. That could be a good selling point.
In my opinion, jwe2 is more simple
All it takes is a few decorations, a few different paths, and some enclosures to have a nice beginner park
And prehistoric kingdom is for creative people
It has much more building materials so you can make your own buildings, it’s like an ocean of creativity
Except Jurassic world evolution is harder
@@levif1175 true
This is such a well paced video, great work
You hit it on the head! It depends on "which one am I in the mood for today." and your park is amazing!!
In my opinion, I think JWE2 is more of a relaxed Dinosaur park building game, while PK is a more detailed game for people with more patience and attention to detail.
Both games are really awesome, but also both games aren't complete
Pk is now in Early access and JwE2 like you said has few thing cut out from the game to avoid spoilers to Jw:D (Dominion chaos theory and possibly a bigger campaign).
PK looks awesome! I’m definitely considering getting it. Question: does buying the early access also mean you’ll get the full version included when it comes out? I’m in graduate school so money is a little tight, and I don’t want to pay twice for the same game.
I can't think of a game that required an owner to buy it a second time out of early access
@@AncientMarshmallows figured it was a dumb question, I’ve just never bought a game early access before lol
@@jordmanbatgod it's ok. I wasn't trying to make you feel stupid. I'm sorry if I did.
no worries mate, when you buy the early access, you buy THE GAME. After that, it will simply update for you.
@@AncientMarshmallows no worries friend :)
I would say that considering the devs of pk’s commitment and rapid rate development that when the game fully launches there will be 50 animals with many more on the way
rapid rate of development? This game, in it's current form, first demo'd in 2017 ;)
Not bashing the developers here, they've pulled off something amazing and I have faith in them, but the complete, finished game, could very well still take a very long time.
All tho Prehistoric Kingdom sounds great, I'm a JWE-2 fanboy... Also my only "gaming" tech is a good ol' xbox one, the original one.
So that makes me only aviable to play JWE-2... Maybe in the future i'll try it.
And I will gladly watch comming content from you and others! ❤
My face when i find out people are arguing about which game is better and superior while my poor ass can't even afford a pc
I can't pick and choose. Both games are just phenomenal and amazing!
Aaah I never wanted a pc more than now! All these awesome dinosaur park building games. I'm gonna cry in a corner for a while. Have a blast with the game✌🏾🦖
As a console player I would love to see prehistoric kingdom eventually switch over if not guess I'm investing in a pc
I feel that if Universal had decided, by some miracle, not to extend the JWE franchise to it's next evolution, this comparison would be quite different, and possibly more in the favor of PK. But Frontier really brought their A game and, despite being limited by some of the mechanics of the past game, the dinosaurs, building mechanics, etc., they managed to explore new territory that only served to ENHANCE the skeleton they had before. Little details here and there, and completely new ideas and mechanics created the game that most people truly wanted.
You also mentioned the finished product.
JWE1 was finished. PK is still not. Some were unsatisfied with where JWE1 left off, because it felt like they should have continued, but they did continue it in its sequel, and arguabley on a better foot.
That's my two minute take.
Prehistoric Kingdom is the Emperor, JWE2 is the King, and we need another one to be the Queen.
Imperator, rex y solo nos falta regina
For prehistoric kingdom can u get it on mobile or only pc and x-box like jwe2
Prehistoric Kingdom is all I ever wanted Jurassic World Evolution to be. I can't wait to see the game grow.
Definitely think Prehistoric Kingdom should take inspriation from jwe2 mainly in the the social interaction between species. I love jwe2 for those interactions makes the animals more animal than killing machine. The "itch scratching" animations would be an amazing touch too
They announced that they are going to add in dinosaur behaviors, they announced it along side to clips of a dilophosaurus
1. Prehistoric kingdom ya tiene animaciones de rascarse, y 2. Las interacciones de jwe2 no son mas que animaciones superficiales
very nice video! i just found this channel and since i haven't play any of these games this was really helpfull. I have many hours on planet zoo and JWE 1 and although i will propably check them both i think i will go with Prehestoric Kingdom first and i really hope they will add more species in the future beacuse it looks fantastic game
Although I love games like Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo or PK, I just don't have the time nor the creativity to build really amazing parks. I was unsure whether PK would be as time consuming as PC and PZ, and with this video I definitely got the answer: it is! . For how much I'd love to be able to build something really breathtaking in PK, I guess for now I'll have to go with JW2. Thanks for the video!
looking forward to more content on prehistoric kingdom :)
Just a question, in JWE 2 how do you have every era of building available to you because i can only use one era at a time so how do you have every era if it's vanilla and not modded? is that a PC only thing? (i'm on XBOX)
I've done a video on that. Search: "this is why you are missing decorations" on the channel
Short answer: console
@@EvolutionSquare so it is a PC only thing?
ah nvm it's cuz i'm on past gen, thanks for the answer
I like to think of Prehistoric Kingdom more like planet zoo with more of a guest park vibe.
For the compies in JWE2 I like to use the concrete barriers
I know I’m 3 months late but you made this on my Birth-Day April 27th
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!
(subscribed...Love JWE2 (especially the Homocephale!) but having more room to customize my park will be a welcome addition to my games)
Thanks for the great content!
This creative freedom from PK is the only thing I wanted in JWE
I love the idea of the limitless customization in PK , but after playing around with both Planet Coaster & Zoo, I have to admit that I'm just no longer in a place where I can, or perhaps rather want, to invest as much time into creating digital landscapes and novelty projects. Like she said: Creating something amazing and unique in PK takes a a lot of time and effort. In my teens I would have been all over these games and sunk hundreds of hours in them. Nowadays, I do enjoy the more limited but still enjoyable dinosaur fantasy experience that the Jurassic games offer.
the only thing i want in pk is for it to be easier to turn
i cant turn idk why
Very informative video. I would like to know is there a hunting mechanic in PK? Like carnivores hunting small dinos?
Evo, any plans to build Jurrasic Park/World in Prehistoric Kingdom?
hahahahahaha NO not at all.
OMG can you imagine how much painstaking work that would be to recreate all the JP/JW buildings?
Maybe if I was a monk
I only have jwe2 but PK looks tucking dope! ❤
I have to agree with you it’s totally awesome that we are getting all these awesome Dino games. Sad I don’t have a pc… yet
I think almost everyone can agree with me about the fact that we need prehistoric mammals in the jurassic park franchise, and the fact that Mantah corp created a saber tooth tiger(Smilodon) could be the begin of it. id just love to see mammoths, giant sloths, megaloceros, entelodon and even include other prehistoric and famous creatures like megalodon
Is there a way to share prefabs in PK for other people to use? That would kinda be the deciding factor for me.
not right now, but that is planned for the future.
An update planned in June will have Steam Workshop support.
The only issues I have with PK are some of the default key bindings and the ui layout. Bc it's early access I'm sure the ui will go thru a lot of retooling but it took me longer than any other zoo game I've played to understand where everything is.
I have Evo 2 and I’m lucky enough to have all the Dlcs, I love the game and I can’t wait to get Prehistoric kingdom
I can't play the game bc i have the same issue with JWE2 my laptop is quite old and i am saving up money for a pc
but the games are just to powerfull for my laptop to handle :((((
are they available on ps4???
and i think ur smarter at pc stuff than i am lol so is like 900 power ig enough to handle pk?
You left out one thing(not meaning to be rude)their also adding marin animals not to mention reptiles like sarcosuches and deinosuches and with the water depth feature we can make rivers with aquatic life in them also spinosaures is planed I think so we can possibly have swimming animations for it to.
I think I made it very clear in this video that I am not considering things that are not in the game, because we don't know when or IF they are ever coming. That's the deal with an Early Access product, you gotta look at it AS IS, they are even legally required to state so on steam
Yea but I was just looking at the website and it showed them so I was just going off what the websites showed.again not meaning to be rude.
I am currently downloading Prehistoric kingdom on my Steam and one of big differences from JWE2 I love is that our animals can breed and have babies :3 In JWE2 you need a mod for babies I think, if there wasnt an update :D I wanna create something like big open park - only one massive habitat where would animals live like in wild. I tried it on JWE2 but I didnt want everytime manualy add new dinos by myself while still working on map... But still it was good time playing it :D
I hope when the full game releases when it finishes they make a PS4 and PS five version
I love both of these games. If you wanna make a realistic dinosaur zoo, use prehistoric kingdom. If you wanna make a sci-fi movie monster attraction, use Jurassic World evolution two
What I like about the mobile version of park builder is that other players can visit
I can appreciate both. JWE is faithful to the movies while PK is faithful to science. JWE is better for less creative builders (like me), while PK lets you be more creative.
It's disappointing considering how awesome Planet Zoo is with its details. You would think Frontier would have added some of those same ideas from the get-go.
You can tell PK took those ideas and rolled with it. Mini exhibits, shelter, even the tilting of objects, etc. Stuff I thought Frontier would have added into JWE2 after making Planet Zoo. JWE definitely lacked those extra details.
I'm really wanting both games. I think PK would be INCREDIBLE if they released small theropods like Stokesosaurus or dilophosaurus. But the game already looks incredible enough.
JWE2 looks like a MASSIVE improvement from the first one. I just can't afford a 60$ game often
Personally I'd prefer Prehistoric Kingdom. Sure it doesn't have much species, but that voiceover by Nigel Marvin is so nostalgic.
If they do aquatic for prehistoric kingdom, they have my vote 1100%
Please it's the first "zoo" I wnat to make water based
I just hate how expensive Jurassic World evolution 2 is right now but I'm happy with any dinosaur game honestly but I really love the Scientifically accurate dinosaurs . Just because I grew up with dinosaur documentarys all the BBC ones and the discovery ones especially Dinosaur planet but I remember most of all prehistoric Park on animal planet, Prehistoric kingdom really makes me happy like I'm finally able to make a park just like the show!
So like PK is like planet zoo with dinosaurs, witch I love while JWE2 more casual and more like what you imagine the movies would be like as a management sim. I adore both I just cannot wait until PK gets finnished
Love both games (by what I’m seeing) PK def reminds me of planet zoo and I loved that game
PK has A LOT in common with Planet Zoo and even made some improvements over it, so if you like PZ, PK is great for you :)
I think with the upcoming steam workshop support the gap will close more and more in terms of how quick you can build a park, already there are numerous prefabs you can download on the PK discord server that are JP/JW themed.
I think Universal is very aware of this, on the day PK launched into early access they released a new, discounted package for JWE, just by coincidence?
will prehistoric kingdom come out on PS4?
Thanks for the comparison. I switched to PK strictly because of the editing tools not only for creating terrain/landscape, but also edit/moving already laid down objects. If only JWE2 had this functionality. I would stick with JWE2. I do like the fact that JWE2 has a lot more prefabs. However, PK does have a steam workshop full of prefabs. So, you can have the best of both worlds in PK. Because honestly. Sometimes I don't want to do modular, but I wish JWE2 had more modular. JWE2 just looks better. But PK has more realistic looking dino's based on what is factuality known at this point in time. I really am not interested in re-creating Jurassic Park movie. Juts nice looking dino parks.