A year has passed since the main story, and Dinosaur Reserve has grown immensely since the park first opened. but now Dinosaur Reserve CEO Norman Mackenzie wants to expand Dinosaur Reserve beyond your little park back home. Now he wants to EXPAND Dinosaur Reserve into a FRANCHISE of parks around the world! The first stop in this globetrotting quest is North America, home to some of the most well-known and Iconic dinosaurs to ever live!
The North American continent was already well-represented in the base game mission line-up, outside of the obligatory Morrison and Hell Creek missions we had the likes of the Chinle, Cloverly, Two Medicine, Dinosaur Park, and Prince Creek formations. but there's still more ground we had yet to cover on this continent, from the double-crested Dilophosaurus to the ferocious Utahraptor to the many-horned Kosmoceratops to the gentle giant Alamosaurus, North America has no shortage of iconic paleofauna. New maps include Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Utah, Washington, Phoenix, Pennsylvania, San Diego, New York, and Orlando.
With new locations to build your parks in comes a slew of new themed building pieces allowing you the player to build structures that appeal to the cultures of the regions you'll be building your parks in: you have the Pueblo-themed building set representing the American southwest (which is surprisingly the setting of a good chunk of these DLC missions) and you have the more interesting of the two sets which is the Inuit-themed building set, as that set comes with Native American Totem-style statues depicting Canadian dinosaurs such as Albertosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus, and Cryodrakon. We also got a set of Appalachian log cabin-themed building sets for those who love to build mountain parks.
Another new feature is that of Albino and Melanistic animals, these color variants are SUPER rare (like, shiny pokemon rare) and the odds of you the player encountering one in the wild are one in a million. their rarity makes Albino and Melanistic creatures extremely valuable, thus displaying them in your park would give your ratings a strong boost. These variants can also be obtained via breeding, but again it is a very rare occurrence.
This Expansion also adds the feature of Team Expeditions, where you and your friends can hook up and go on online co-op missions together, working as a team to capture as many extinct animals for your parks as you can. Once the mission is over, custody of the captured animals will be split between individual members of your crew. In addition to this, Another online feature will be included known as the online trade system where players can trade Animals, Building blueprints, and other Resources with each other online.
Another new addition to this expansion is the greenhouse, a building located in the park's worker village where you can now collect seed samples of prehistoric plants from the past and grow them in the greenhouse, you can also farm prehistoric flora to be made into feed for your extinct herbivores at the park allowing them to be fed a more natural diet. this is where we're introduced to the new character of Laura, the park's resident paleobotanist. she's the one with the green thumb around these parts.
When going international, you're also given a new home base for your international operations where you will have to answer to the Dinosaur Reserve International board of directors, a group of multi-cultural executives who will task you with appealing to the markets of their respective countries, such as international park guest's interest in native paleofauna from their hometown and will also keep in touch with you when on missions. there's also a lab where scientists help develop new equipment to make missions more efficient, including upgrades to your time rods unlocking a slew of new prehistoric ecosystems for you to visit:
There are a total of 16 new formations to explore filled with some of the most famous and majestic new species to collect and populate your parks! These missions include:
Triassic Seadragons (Favret Formation)
Leaping Lizards (Newark Supergroup)
Crested Killer (Kayenta Formation)
Rise of the Raptors (Cedar Mountain Formation)
The Red Tank (Clearwater Formation)
Swamps of Zuni (Moreno Hill Formation)
The Gore King (Wahweap Formation)
Terror of Menefee (Menefee Formation)
Super-croc (Kaiparowits Formation)
The Lost Continent (Cretaceous Appalachia)
Horned Domain (Judith River Formation)
The Ancient Alien (Foremost Formation)
The Five-horned Face (Kirtland Formation)
Monsters of Mexico (Cerro Del Pueblo Formation)
Tyrants of Alberta (Horseshoe Canyon Formation)
The Last Giant (Ojo Alamo Formation)