Jurassic World Evolution 2 announced, coming this year

Frontier is returning to the world of dinosaurs with Jurassic World Evolution 2, announced today during Summer Game Fest. The announcement comes not long after the first images of the next Jurassic World movie, Dominion, surfaced with our first looked at feathered dinosaurs. 

It'll be interesting to see how Evolution 2 compares to 2017's Jurassic Park Evolution (we gave it a 71%) considering the recent success of Frontier's other creature care sim, Planet Zoo. Evolution was a different kind of game, focusing less on the nitty-gritty park building details and more on the dinosaurs themselves. 

Whatever the focus of the sequel, it certainly looks bigger than before. We also got a bit of Jeff Goldblum in there narrating the trailer, which is also fun. I would hope that also means Jeff narrates at least some of the game. 

Jurassic World Evolution 2 is coming sometime in 2021 and is coming to basically everything, including both Steam and Epic Games Store.

Update 6/13: Here's a segment on Jurassic World Evolution 2 from the Future Games Show.

What's up next? Here's the full E3 2021 schedule
Check out our list of every game at E3 so far

Morgan Park
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Morgan has been writing for PC Gamer since 2018, first as a freelancer and currently as a staff writer. He has also appeared on Polygon, Kotaku, Fanbyte, and PCGamesN. Before freelancing, he spent most of high school and all of college writing at small gaming sites that didn't pay him. He's very happy to have a real job now. Morgan is a beat writer following the latest and greatest shooters and the communities that play them. He also writes general news, reviews, features, the occasional guide, and bad jokes in Slack. Twist his arm, and he'll even write about a boring strategy game. Please don't, though.

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