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Just a rave review!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Capcom did an excellant job on this game. besides your gay comrade Rick who is completly useless. (and gay, no really i think he is gay) mainly because of his cheesy jokes and his weird apperance. oh and then theres Gail who strangely resembles Nicholai from RE3. which is also a good game. but any how onto Dino Crisis, the game has an excellant plot and a very hot protagonist named Regina. (where would Capcom be without a hot Girl) the voice acting is very good compared to Resident evil 1 (Jill Sandwhich) And survivor (the phone hang up) the charcters were dedecated to their voice acting. (surprise!) usually capcom screwd that up. the controls were easy to navigate and to remember also they were responsive. the gaphics were great for a PS1 game. the velociraptors had decent AI for the time all except the random red forcefields that some of them were trapped behind. They run into it. which is hilarious to watch. you'll see what i mean if you play it. the puzzles are not to hard unlike RE3 Water treatment puzzle. God help if u dont know the motive to the puzzle. the puzzles in DC are easy to figure out. and are not frustrating. all three weapons were useful in their own way. for example when fighting the T Rex. lord help you if u dont have any grenade rounds. after that you are pretty screwd. the camara angles weren't all that bad. the auto lock on is required. dont ask it just is. Over all a great game. a must buy for capcom fans. Hint steer clear of DC3. DC2 is also very good. happy dino hunting.

Fairly Decent Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am basically buying and beating old playstation games I never got a chance to beat. I just finished this game today and it was pretty good. The controls are prettymuch identical to the early resident evil series and so is gameplay really. The story is pretty decent the only things I did not like about the game is it can become tedious running and back and fourth and some of the puzzles, not hard, are just kind of annoying. Good pickup if you can find it for under 10 bucks and looking to waste a saturday with a 6 pack. Game should take no more than 8 hours and thats really pushing it

Exciting Adventures

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was one of the best I have played. It is the hardest in all the dino series. This is a must own game for anyone who loves to play games.

Not better than resident evil but kind of addicting

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game from the game stop store where I use to work at for $2.99 + tax which was a really sweet deal. I played it in my ps2 and it was pretty fun shooting those dinosours especially in normal mode. It took me along time to figure out how to complete the missions because this game didn't come with any instuction booklet so I learned about this game the hard way. Your mission is to search the facility for clues survive from the dinosours and go after doctor kirk who is the main person your after through out the whole game. Most people I guess would prefer resident evil instead of dino crisis but I would say this game is worth playing if your into resident evil.

enjoyable, but not quite a classic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I remember back in 1999 when I received Dino Crisis as a Christmas present. This was my first exposure to a survival horror game. Believe it or not, I actually didn't bother with the Resident Evil series until six years later, in the summer of 2005, which is when I played Resident Evil 2 for the very first time.

Now, let's go back to 1999 for a moment. The world of 3D gaming was in full swing at that point in time. 1999 was a year when people were anxiously awaiting what the Playstation 2 would give us, while at the same time, we were appreciating what the original Playstation was offering. The original Playstation, as you may already know, is where the survival horror genre *really* became popular. Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and, the now underrated and unfortunately forgotten, Dino Crisis series.

Over time, people haven't treated the Dino Crisis series with *nearly* as much respect as the Resident Evil and Silent Hill series. It probably has something to do with Dino Crisis 3 being a really bad game with horrible camera angles, which meant, after that failed experiment hit the market, people weren't interested in any more Dino Crisis games. But, you know, even before Dino Crisis 3 was released, people didn't respect the Dino Crisis series as much as the other survival horror games. I really have no idea why. Dinosaurs can be *just* as cool as zombies. Believe me. Perhaps it has something to do with the animation? Even though killing dinosaurs is fun and addicting, Capcom made killing zombies slightly more interesting, thanks mainly to better animation from pointing and shooting your guns at a zombies head. It just looks and feels better in Resident Evil. This in NO WAY should be reason to avoid Dino Crisis. This also doesn't mean Dino Crisis is flawed in the shooting department. Both Resident Evil and Dino Crisis offer tons of enjoyment. TONS of enjoyment. They are just separate beasts.

The original Dino Crisis is supposed to be about making the right decisions when it comes to either keeping your ammo and health in one place, or making the decision to bring the ammo and health with you. It's supposed to be about guessing whether or not the ammo or health will eventually be necessary as you progress through the game. However, on easy mode, none of this makes a difference. The game is *so* easy on easy mode, that you can literally get attacked by dinosaurs about five or six times before you even need one of those Med Pack M's (used to bring your health back to 100%). Seeing as how there aren't many dinosaurs in the game overall, you will only need to use one of these health packs maybe two or three times throughout the entire game. Dino Crisis is *that* easy! This means you will only have to bring one or two Med Packs with you, and leave the rest behind.

To be fair, you can't just mindlessly shoot every dinosaur you arrive to, because you aren't given a whole lot of ammo. Certainly not as much ammo is given to you compared to how many health packs are available throughout the journey. Despite that, running out of bullets probably won't ever be a problem. Just make certain you avoid some of the weaker dinosaurs in the early parts of the game. That way you will have enough bullets for the bigger and deadlier dinosaurs in the later parts of the game (which obviously require more bullets to kill).

You are given the ability to mix things together, to create dangerous darts. These darts are used to kill dinosaurs *very* quickly, sometimes in a single shot. The problem here is that, on easy mode, the game is so simple that mixing darts together isn't even important. You don't have to worry about dart-mixing on easy mode *at all*. You can simply shoot or avoid all the dinosaurs you come across on easy mode and not have to worry about dart-mixing EVER. That kind of ruins the whole "survival horror" aspect of the game. You should have been required to use at least one or two of these darts.

People criticize Dino Crisis 2 for being just a mindless shooting game where you have to kill as many dinosaurs as possible to progress to the next area and collect bigger guns, but the honest truth is, the original is a MUCH easier game overall because you can simply run past all the dinosaurs that stand in your way. You can't do that in the second game. You have to stand up to them and shoot. So Dino Crisis 2 is a harder game, in my opinion. Oh sure, you are given an option to up the difficulty (in both Dino Crisis games) but the problem here is that the difficulty goes up SIGNIFICANTLY, making the game nearly impossible.

Another problem I have with the game is the amount of cutscenes. You CANNOT skip over them, so you are forced to watch almost every single one of them. Most of them are kind of boring because most of the cutscenes feature the main characters just talking to each other. Sometimes you will see a cool-looking dinosaur attacking something, though. But Capcom *really* should have given you an option to skip over the cutscenes like they did in the sequel, because most of them are flat-out boring. These conversations are supposed to create a spooky mood, but it doesn't work in my opinion.

I also have a problem with the INCREDIBLE amount of puzzles you come across. I am not kidding, there's over 25 puzzles in this game. Some of them are just a matter of typing in the correct series of numbers, or the correct words to access the next area. Some of the puzzles are more along the lines of finding the right way to complete them, such as the puzzle where you're pushing these Up, Down, Left and Right buttons to figure out how to sucessfully lift up and put down boxes using a giant crane. These are extremely hard puzzles to figure out by yourself unless you have a walkthrough. Once you figure them out, the sequence is exactly the same the next time you play the game, though. They're not random like in Resident Evil 3.

The game is also *very* heavy on searching for the correct key cards to gain access to the next part of the game, which can be annoying. Simply put, the game is dominated with puzzles and key cards, which are always required to access the next area. A bit much, to say the least.

Despite the above problems, Dino Crisis is STILL a pretty fun game because the dinosaurs are animated beautifully and the graphics as a whole are really good for 1999 as well. The actual gameplay has some problems mentioned above, but there's also plenty of action to be found. Also, the game is pretty scary and intense, and the dinosaurs are simply wonderful looking and it's interesting the way they can attack you because they attack differently each time. Sometimes they will bite at your arm, other times they will pick you up from off the ground, and more.

Oh, and the music and sound effects are amazing. Perhaps the best music and sound effects in a survival horror game ever. Instead of featuring melodic themes, you are treated to sound effects and musical notes that seem to play randomly, almost making it sound like improvised music, like something from a King Crimson record. This means, if you listen to the music carefully, you can hear a bunch of unusual and creepy sound effects in the background. You hear something different each time. It's awesome, and works great. It's not a typical soundtrack in any shape or form, even by survival horror standards. It's so good.

Overall, even though Dino Crisis has almost zero replay value, and too much time is spent running around inside a facility doing one puzzle after another (and collecting one key card after another) the game is worth the experience. It's not a classic, just a nice game.

One of Capcom's greatest games, re playability very high.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Dino Crisis is like resident evil in the sense that it is "survival horror" but it is much more than just a RE copy. This game is very intense and in depth with it's story line very easy to follow and understand.

One of the greatest things about this game is that the dino's depth of detail is great, AI is very impressive. Predators will follow you through doors until you either out smart them or they kill you. Thrashing, charging, tossing, and leaping are just some of the ways your enemys will challenge you. The T-Rex can instant kill you or stomp you to death, birds will pick you up and toss you around in the air if you are unable to dodge there attacks. All the attacks and designs of the dino's make you wonder if they were ever really extinct.

Another cool thing about this game is you can mix different items to make darts. Some will temporally put the enemy to sleep, stronger darts will put them to bed permently. When a dino is put to sleep you can walk up to it and do "point blank damage" the closer you are the more you do. Not only can you make darts but the same weapon functions as a shotgun depending on what you decide to load it with. All weapons function realistically and are greatly detailed.

Bottom line I paied 50 bucks for this game when it first came out. In my opinion almost 7 years later it is still worth 50 bucks. If you have not played this game and like survival horror this is a must buy.

bring back regina

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i love dino crisis one and two and i think you should have a dino crisis 4. remember when regina goes through the timegate at the end of dino crisis 2?? well maybe the timegate could malfunction and she goes back 2 years instead of going back to her time and she could prevent everybody from dying and stop her team going to the prehistoric world therefore stopping dylan and david from dying and i think we should have a film too it would blow jurrassic park out of the water!!

DIno CRisis!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i have always loved dinosaurs and i have always been a fan of resident evil. and when the two come together. your game system will explode, nah just playin. but when i first found this game i was so excited. its a pretty confusing game i think but if you like a challenge and you like some blood and gore then check this out. great story also. scared me when the t rex first attacked me lol. i screamed.

Resident Evil... Dinos?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Having played a rather large number of survival horror titles in my time, I uncovered this title at the local flea market for 3 bucks. Having missed it back on the ps1 days (I was too busy with Silent Hill and Resident Evil I guess...) and being a die hard fan of Survival Horror, I picked it up. First and for most, many people have claimed this to be Rresident Evil with dinosaurs. Don't get me wrong, the similarities are hard to miss, but this really is something unique. Enimies are fast... the slow moving zombie has been replaced with the screeching, agile, adreniline fueled velociraptor... Which makes this game pretty difficult. No, think about it. RE controlls... only with zombies that move faster than you. Get the picture? While this does ramp the difficulty significantly, it isn't too over bearing (You just have to learn that blasting dinos isn't a good idea and running away is). Despite the more frentic combat, the game still moves at a sluggish pace that survival horror players have either come to love or hate. This is due in large part to a vast number of puzzles (which make little sense, as usual... colored key cards, statues, crate moving, etc.)and back tracking, in true RE fashion. However, this game offers some really chilling atmosphere, and despite the slow moving speed, it really does feel faster and more frentic than it's compitition, just because dinos are everywhere, you are always running and usually have an extremely low ammount of ammo at all times. Because nearly every area has key items, you have to explore. Because these same areas feature dinos, you have to use ammo to kill them. Because dinos are so fast and hard to kill you are always taking damage. You use healing items to cure wounds, so there for, unlike Resident Evil, it is pretty damn hard to hoard ammo and healers... all this results from fast moving enemies, and because you almost always just barely escape every situation by the seat of your pants, this gives dino crisis an exciting edge that most other horror games still haven't perfected. Add to this, "choose your own adventure" style twists in the plot where you call the shots as to which direction the story goes, the ability to combine items to create more powerful weapons, new types of ammo, and more potent healing items, and some pretty nifty graphics (they really aren't that bad, considering this game is almost 5 years old)and you have a winning title. As for the not-so-juicy parts, well... there are only about 4 types of enemies. And if you ever saw Jurassic Park or opened up a childrens Dinosaur book, you already know what they look like and how they will act. I'm not complaining, because each dino still scares the crap out of you when it pops out of a vent shaft or chases you down a corridor at high speed... but they lack that what-the-hell-is-it? factor of the mutants seen in RE and Silent Hill... Before you ever encounter them, you already know exactly what the enemies will look like, and how they will try and kill you. It just isn't as disturbing as the freekish encounters experienced in most other games of the genre. More so, the weapon selection is a little limited (3 weapons: Pistol, Shotgun, Grenade Gun), which offer a nice balance of speed, ammo availability and power... but it still leaves something to be desired, as pistol ammo is far too week to be useful (7 to 10 hits for a kill on a fast moving enemy... yeah right) and shotgun ammo is far to scarce to be wasted on anything but important circumstances (obviously grenades are saved exclusively for bosses if you actually want to beat the game). A good middle ground weapon would have been nice, just to lower frustration and make combat more stream-lined. In short, if you never liked Survival Horror, this isn't going to turn you into a fan. But if you like the corridor romping, the solving of mundane puzzles that pop out of no where and a few heart pounding marrathon runs while being chased by savage lizards, this is a game you should check out. Dated by today's standerds, but still decient enough to replay to see the 4 different endings. I give it a solid 85 out of 100.

A Great Survival Horror Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Dino Crisis is an overall great survival horror game. The storyline is a bit boring, but is enough to keep you playing the game. The graphics are okay, for a playstation game. The game itself is not as scary as other survival horror games, like Resident Evil, but features enough horror to make it a game to remember. One great thing about this game is that it has easy to use controls, which makes the game a little easier to play. Dino Crisis is definately a game to purchase if you are looking for a great survival horror game.

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