 Welcome to the Official PPM Slime of the Season.
Have you ever played a game so thoroughly rotten, so outright disgusting, and so downright despicable that you'd rather flush it down the toilet than plug it into your gaming console? Our team has dedicated this section of the mag exclusively for those nastiest of nasties. To them, we award our dishonorable Slime of the Season. There is no higher glory for electronic scum than being showcased as a Slime Award recipient.
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THE AUTUMN '97 SLIME AWARD GOES TO......!
 
The Lost World: Jurassic Park on SONY PLAYSTATION
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park for the PlayStation is a frustrating experience that squanders its beautiful presentation on seriously flawed gameplay. Now, the game boasts an impressive package on first glance. Forgetting the dull human characters, players will most likely be picking one of the giant dinosaurs - Either the deadly Velociraptor or the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex. Each has a pre-arranged moveset and animate quite well atop lush, detailed backgrounds. But do not be fooled. Beneath the enticing facade lurks some horrendous flaws that keep this title from reaching the heights this dino-sized franchise deserves, unless you are an incredibly patient and forgiving gamer.
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| EA hopes you fancy Pitfall gameplay. |
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The most infuriating issues stem from imprecise and wholly inaccurate collision detection, as well as dreadful level design. Players will constantly miss jumps and fall to their death. This makes the game simply unplayable at times, leading to terribly frustrating moments and endless restarts. This issue is compounded by controls that are either too sensitive or just plain awkward. This problem is so pervasive that searching for secrets becomes too tough, forcing players to just run straight ahead. Despite the highly respectable enemy AI and the promise of over sixty moves for each character, the horrific, untested gameplay makes us sprint away from this title as if it were a real T-Rex.
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