I would say overall massive quality of life improvements from JWE2. If you have 2 and are wondering if it's worth it to get this one I would say definitely yes.
Some of the improvements from JWE2:
- The biggest most obveous one, breeding and babies! Adds a whole new massive mechanic that is incredibly fun to play around with. This along with sexual dimorphism just makes the dinos seem so much more alive and engaging.
- Sandbox mode is actually sandbox mode. Unlike in JWE2 where you had a bunch of skins locked behind completing challenge modes. With 3 you can actually utilize the whole point of a sandbox and just jump right in and play around with everything the game has to offer.
- You can actually see a preview of how the dinosaur will look when you are customizing skins! No more having to switch to species viewer or vaguely estimate based on the often inaccurate previews you were given in 2.
- I feel like there's a better selction of biomes when sculpting dinosaur enclosures and makes the world seem more alive and gives more ability to customize and diversify enclosures.
- New deinonychus model, my god it looks so much better.
Although I definitely feel this game is an overall much better experience, there are some things that they changed from JWE2 that are downgrades or just frustrating:
- By far the thing that frustrates me most is you can't sell dinosaurs. The only way you can get rid of a dinosaur you don't want is to either release it into the wild, which COSTS money, or have it die. And with hybrids you can't even release them so the only way to get rid of one is for it to die.
- There are no wild captures. Really bums me out because one of my favourite things to do in JWE2 was recieve the wild capture requests.
- Unique skins, like for example the 'Blue' velociraptor skin or 'Big Eatie' rex skin, are all only available for either the male or female of that species. While I mostly like the sexual dimorphism aspect, this is a little annoying.
- In the most recent DLC, crocodilia coast, two of the five new dinos added were ones that had already been in JWE2's DLCs. Cheap and frustrating considering they're just reusing models and you're essentially paying for the same dinos twice if you purchased the DLCs in JWE2.
- no tarbosaurus :'( ....(yet, at least)
