History VideoGame / JurassicParkTrespasser

* LetsPlay: A ''very'' popular video LP by Website/SomethingAwful goon [=LetsPlay/ResearchIndicates=], who braves the buggy and often-tedious gameplay to bring viewers the game's excellent story in video form.

* RegeneratingHealth: As [=ResearchIndicates=]' Let's Play put it, ''Trespasser'' was ahead of the curve in many respects, . This was one of them.

* RegeneratingHealth: As [=ResearchIndicates=]' Let's Play put it, ''Trespasser'' was ahead of the curve in many respects. This was one of them.

* DropTheHammer: [[IncrediblyLamePun Don't even bother to pick it up]], it does '''nothing'''.

* BagOfSpilling: New level? All your guns are gone. Most levels do give you access to some new guns before it throws dinos at you, typically in a container near the start of the level, but it's all but guaranteed all the game will grant you at this point are, at most, a pair of Desert Eagles.

* ChaosArchitecture: Going to a certain beach on the island causes the audio from the prologue of ''The Lost World'' to start playing, implying that it's the same beach. However, it looks nothing alike.

* ApocalypticLog: A [[DoingItForTheArt surprisingly well-written and acted]] Dr. John Hammond narrates your journey.

** The ''Albertosaurus'' is the only dinosaur in the game which was not present in the movies or games. In fact, this was its first appearance in the franchise, although it would frequently appear in further video game tie-ins.

* HerbivoresAreFriendly: The ''Stegosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Triceratops'', and ''Brachiosaurus'' are all completely passive and won't react even when you shoot them. The ''Stegosaurus'' and the ''Triceratops'' are the only ones even able to damage you, and that's only [[TooDumbToLive if you walk into their spikes/horns]].

''Jurassic Park: Trespasser'' is a FirstPersonShooter game released in 1998 for [=PCs=] by Creator/DreamworksInteractive, developed as a tie-in to the film ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. The game stars Anne, a plane crash survivor who finds herself on the shores of Isla Sorna, also known as Site B, two years after the events of ''The Lost World'', and desperately needs to find a way off the island, armed with nothing but her wits and one lone (surprisingly strong) noodly arm for her to pull boxes and throw rocks around with.

* FirstPersonGhost: Zig-zagged. Anne has an arm and visible cleavage, the latter of which bear the LifeMeter in tattoo form, though a fan-made third-person mode reveals that she has nothing ''but'' that arm and cleavage. Also, any weapon you happen to be carrying will be floating over Anne's shoulder or vaguely in the area where a hip holster would be, if she had a waist.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The poison dart gun from the sixth level. It kills most enemies in 1 shot and is the only weapon that can practically kill a T-Rex. It is also one of only 2 weapons that is easy to aim, due to having a reflex sight. You only get 3 shots, but given all of the above, that's plenty.

** Hammond's Ladies Model .38 snub nose. In a game where the .44 Desert Eagle is the most common weapon, it deals more damage then anything but the Barrett .50 and the poison dart rifle.
* LetsPlay: A ''very'' popular video LP by Website/SomethingAwful goon LetsPlay/ResearchIndicates, who braves the buggy and often-tedious gameplay to bring viewers the game's excellent story in video form.

* GameBreakingBug: Too many to count without the patches.

* ObviousBeta: Nearly half the tropes on the page are willing to attest to it.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: A jarring example with the ''Parasaurolophus''; their forelimbs are ''absolutely short'', almost as small as those of a ''T. rex'', in spite of the fact hadrosaurs are mainly quadrupedal. Made worse in that this inaccuracy is not present in the ''Parasaurolophus'' from the films.

* GagBoobs: Anne's are apparently so big that she can't even see her feet.

* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: This was clearly the intent with inclusion of smaller ''Albertosaurus'' acting mini-bosses and ''T. rex'' being nigh-invulnerable sponge-damage dinosaur you have to avoid. But thanks to poor AI programming, they don't pose much of a threat, especially if there are other larger dinosaurs to kill first.

* EnemyCivilWar: The various Raptor tribes were ''supposed'' to be fighting amongst each other over territory, but no such feature exists in the game.
* ExplodingBarrels: There are barrels of fuel scattered about the island, and while their rather convenient placement (including a huge amount of them near an Albertosaurus you're expected to fight rather than just avoid) suggests they were ''supposed'' to explode, they don't.

* FirstPersonGhost: Zig-zagged. Anne has an arm and visible cleavage, the latter of which bear the LifeMeter in tattoo form, though a fan-made third-person mode reveals that she has nothing ''but'' that arm and cleavage. Also, any weapon you happen to be carrying will be floating over Anne's shoulder or vaguely in the area where a holster would be, if she had a waist.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Despite Hammond explicitly saying raptors travel in packs you only ever encounter one or two at a time, probably because the game would be too hard otherwise.

* GunsAreWorthless: {{Inverted|Trope}}, as while some deal less damage than others, guns are still the only ''consistent'' tools for damaging dinos - save for Nedry's mace, all melee weapons either do nothing to what you hit with them, or deal respectable damage but continually damage you until you die when stowed, it is possible to hurt raptors with melee weapons if you get the weapon stuck in their neck but its not reliable and best only tried as a last resort when out of ammo.

* HighPressureBlood: Shooting a dino will more often than not result in a several-foot long arc of blood spraying out of the body. It's exaggerated even more if you use the neurotoxin dart rifle on the T-rex, with a single shot resulting in [[BloodyHilarious comically huge]] [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank torrents of blood]] shooting out like a giant punctured beer can (and, as per usual, slowing the game to a crawl), even sillier if it's from a wooden stick lodging in their neck in melee combat.
* ImmuneToBullets: T-rex and Brachiosaurus. The only easy way to kill a T-rex is three headshots from a unique weapon that only appears in one level. The T-rex is near the end of the level, the gun at the beginning. The gun carries 3 shots and there are no reloads in this game. Still, it is satisfying to finally kill one of the bastards. They have such ridiculously high health that you'd otherwise have to find half of the guns on the level and unload them all into one in order to kill it.[[note]]According to the shoddy documentation, with very good accuracy the mounted M2, Barrett, Calico, and drum-fed AK can kill the T-rex in one magazine, eventually; all other weapons will require backups. This is only feasible in the town, as there are far more guns than raptors within.[[/note]] Also, the very first T-Rex you meet can be killed by dropping a jeep on its head.

* InformingTheFourthWall: Since there's no way to visually check your ammunition, Anne will dictate either the exact count of bullets in a gun ("Looks like twelve," etc.) or will estimate magazine-fed firearms by weight ("Feels about half full", etc.). This trope is also followed out of necessity, since Anne is the only living human on the island.

* StockDinosaurs: Played straight at first, then all of a sudden, Albertosaurus! Hammond's narration over the game notes this, stating that only a few species managed to adapt to the new world. It also pokes a little fun at this when you see the first dinos in the game, a Brachiosaurus, noting that they were the only dinos in the park to [[NonindicativeName actually come from the Jurassic period]].

* HighPressureBlood: Shooting a dino will more often than not result in a several-foot long arc of blood spraying out of the body. Taken UpToEleven if you use the neurotoxin dart rifle on the T-rex, with a single shot resulting in [[BloodyHilarious comically huge]] [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank torrents of blood]] shooting out like a giant punctured beer can (and, as per usual, slowing the game to a crawl), even sillier if it's from a wooden stick lodging in their neck in melee combat.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The poison dart gun. It kills most enemies in 1 shot and is the only weapon that can practically kill a T-Rex. It is also one of only 2 weapons that is easy to aim, due to having a reflex sight. You only get 3 shots, but given all of the above, that's plenty.

** Nedry's Mace, the only functioning melee weapon that won't kill you when stored, and

* PersonalSpaceInvader: The Raptors' main form of attack is to make contact with the player's hitbox with the "damage strip" inside their mouths. This more often than not results in you backpedalling away madly with a Raptor's mouth trying to latch onto your face.
* RagdollPhysics: [[TropeMaker The original]]. In some cases, it was actually more advanced than modern games; for instance, every dinosaur is actually a ragdoll constantly animated via inverse kinematics, instead of using fixed keyframe animations.

* ShoutOut: The third level contains TheMonolith, complete with spooky music that plays when you approach it, hidden in a section of a level inaccessible without noclip.

[[https://www.trescom.org/ A fan remake is currently in development]].