The player takes role of Anne, a young woman lost on an island full of dinosaurs. The goal is, of course, to escape the place, but first you'll have to travel around the island, making your way through hordes of unfriendly animals. The game was hyped in media before it's release, but is generally considered a failure, poorly recieved by computer game reviewers. The truth is that the game had many interesting features. Some of them were really revolutionary for the time of release, bur the overall apperance of the game was rather disappointing, compared to presspack before the sales launched.There's still a strong fanbase on the Internet, though.
Fantastic, despite the flaws.
+ Dinosaurs!
+ The atmosphere is top notch. This feels 100% like a Jurassic Park game.
+ The game might be linear, but some of the maps are huge. While you won't find anything other than some weapons when exploring an "optional area", the fantastic environment keeps you from being disappointed by that fact.
+ No HUD as we know it (no stupid numbers and icons filling the screen).
Tattoo showing your health? Awesome!
Character tells you how many bullets you have left? Brilliant (for this type of game, where you don't shoot all the time)!
+ The physics are great, even for today. The game was probably at least five years ahead of its time in that area.
It's entertaining to just push, roll or shoot boxes and other things.
+ The guns and items you hold are actually sticking out from your body! In a lot of fps games you can walk up to a wall or some other object with your gun still pointing forward, despite the fact that you are standing right in front of the wall. In Trespasser your arm will bend and you will drop your weapon most of the time if you attempt it.
+ Very innovative controls. I like how you manually grab and release boxes, guns etc. but...
- ... overall the controls are clunky. If you play mostly modern games you might have a really hard time getting used to them.
- Unfortunately, the dinosaurs move like they have some serious brain and muscle issues.