It is a gooood time to be a dinosaur fan! I will be playing both games on the channel :)

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 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

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

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 :)

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 :)

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.

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'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.

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!

The only problem with Prehistoric Kingdom is its camera system. Do you have a trick to configure them like on JWE?

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.

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

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.

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 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.

So sad this is not on console ;(

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.

This is such a well paced video, great work

Two videos in one day, perfect 👌🏻🤩

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!!!!

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

If you want youyr dinosaurs to be monsters, go with JWE 1, 2. If you want your dinosaurs to feel like they are actual living animals, go with PK. If you want both, get both.

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

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

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.

looking forward to more content on prehistoric kingdom :)

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).

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!

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.

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 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 😅

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 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

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.

Very informative video. I would like to know is there a hunting mechanic in PK? Like carnivores hunting small dinos?

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).

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.

You hit it on the head! It depends on "which one am I in the mood for today." and your park is amazing!!

I'm just gonna come out and say it. Jeff Gobloom Is my favorite actor.

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?

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.

honestly needed this video

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

Very fair and balanced video!

I only have jwe2 but PK looks tucking dope! ❤

Really valid points, I gotta give it to pk tho, I think with updates and tweaking down the line there will be no comparison. Even with all the new customization stuff in JWE 2 PK makes it feel very plug and play. Which as you said makes them two unique games, but I feel like PK fills a nice that a whole lot of people wanted. But fantastic video as always.

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

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! ❤

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.

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

Both are cool and if someone likes Dino's and prehistoric things they are a must. As Evolution mentioned they are different games not to compare just similar themed. I will get both. But sometimes I feel that I want something less detailed that looks nice very nice like in jwe2 which is constantly improving and adding things. There are times that planet zoo tires me with all the details. Plus I am a big movie buff, love the JP movies.

Great video!

I really appreciate this dive into the differences, I love the more realistic dinosaurs, but as I’ve learned over the years with minecraft and planet zoo, I have the creativity of a lemon. For us lemons, JW2 might be more fun for us.

I'll have to look and see if either one can run on my laptop. 🤔 I used to play and love Zoo Tycoon and the Sea and Prehistoric ones as a kid, JW looks very interesting but I do like the idea of small variations in dinos. I just want easily placeable buildings too!

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.

They are very different games like you said, if you like building or animal accuracy, then PK is the way to go. And for early access it really looks amazing already, and it's a builder's dream! JWE2 never appealed to me because of those reasons.

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.

As a console player I would love to see prehistoric kingdom eventually switch over if not guess I'm investing in a pc

For the compies in JWE2 I like to use the concrete barriers

I hope PK focuses more on other animals rather than just dinosaurs. That could be a good selling point.

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 can't pick and choose. Both games are just phenomenal and amazing!

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

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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.

i love your vids and that game looks fantastic

What I like about the mobile version of park builder is that other players can visit

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

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

I really wish we could get stables from prehistoric kingdom into JWE2 it’d be cool if I could make a raptor lair

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 love prehistoric kingdom and I would LOVE to get it however since my pc is just an office computer I can't play anything more than offline tf2. 🙁😔😟😦 I do have an xbox and I play jwe2 on it and love it so I guess I should count my blessings. Anyway I enjoyed the video and keep making the great content Evo!

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

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.

I will say while I do firmly belive that both games can be fun and everyone can enjoy both of them ,I personally like Prehistoric Kingdome somewhat more due to the fact it combines the simplistic building style of JWE with the complexity of Planet Zoo and I just find it easier to build creative and fun exhibits and make them look unique and diverse. Aslo quite little sidenote PK technically has 38 species since some of the skins are a difrent species or genus in the Tarbosaurs case if we include both the dinos,mammals and miny exhibits.

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

This creative freedom from PK is the only thing I wanted in JWE

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.

Prehistoric Kingdom is the Emperor, JWE2 is the King, and we need another one to be the Queen.

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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 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.

Evo, any plans to build Jurrasic Park/World in Prehistoric Kingdom?

They both look like great games. I’ll be honest I absolutely love dinosaur zoo building games. I was obsessed with the old Jurassic Park in the early 2000s and also zoo tycoon in the ultimate collection which had dinosaurs and marine animals as well. I haven’t played video games like this in a really long time but I play planet zoo a lot. I’m OK if there is no dinosaur fights, I actually wanted a game that I can play with my daughter who also absolutely loves dinosaurs. I almost want to get both of them now. 😂 but prehistoric kingdom I think I’m going with.

Prehistoric Kingdom is about to get an update with 2 confirmed dinos, and 2 revealed new behavioral animations for I think all Dinosaurs.

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

I dont like the fact that all parks are gonna look like zoos ;-; in that case jwe2 is better bec that feels different enclosures are bigger it feels more natural you can hide things better, dinosaurs dont need shelters... or hay beds the rest of the game is good and i am rlly exited abt it :)

Love both games (by what I’m seeing) PK def reminds me of planet zoo and I loved that game

I've been playing Jurassic world evolution but i just found out about phrestoric kingdom and i can't wait to play it

"both games are worth our time" THANK YOU

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.

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

Very good video IMO

Your video sold prehistoric kingdom to me. Gonna buy this beauty cause it has what i miss in JWE2. JWE2 is still amazing tho. Thank you for the video!

I hope the game updates the social interactions, and combat. As well as terrain. Will they?

This video was very interesting but very good