Interestingly, there’s no health meter in this game. The weapons also all have auto-aim too, which you’ll probably need during frantic dinosaur encounters! Likewise, the game also features a “bleeding” mechanic which functions almost identically to the “poison” system in classic “Resident Evil” games… but is indicated via a blood trail behind the main character.
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Whilst earlier games in that series built suspense via strict limitations on the player, “Dino Crisis” contains a much more generous inventory system ( where you can carry ten ammo/healing items and there seems to be no real limit on puzzle items), unlimited saves – done when you enter or leave specific rooms – and even the ability to move whilst raising a weapon.
It’s a frantic, suspenseful “RUN!” survival horror game rather than the action game it makes itself out to be – or the action-focused direction the series would later take.Įven so, it is a little bit more streamlined and action-focused than Capcom’s more famous “Resident Evil” series. Seriously, this really caught me off-guard during one later part of the game! The dinosaurs can also – very rarely – actually knock the gun out of your hands too. In contrast to the “ Intense dinosaur blasting action with loads of weapons” mentioned on the UK game box, you’ll often find yourself low on ammo and running away from fast and ferocious “bullet sponge” dinosaurs, who can sometimes even move between rooms too. Whilst this game only genuinely frightened me once – during a brief startling moment – it is a wonderfully suspenseful game. Still, I should start by talking about this game’s horror elements – which mostly consist of sci-fi horror, suspense, jump scares, gory horror and monster horror. Seriously, you’re fighting ( or, more accurately, fleeing from.) dinosaurs in a cool futuristic research base which, at times, could almost have come from movies like “Alien” or “Blade Runner” ? Yes, it isn’t that scary and it suffers from puzzle-itis a bit, but it’s still a reasonably solid old-school survival horror game with an incredibly cool premise. One of the first things that I will say about this game is that it is a really cool, if slightly convoluted, sci-fi survival horror game ? Although fans of horror games are unlikely to find it too frightening, it’s still… just… awesome. Set in the distant future of 2009, you play as Regina – a member of an elite special forces unit called S.O.R.T who – along with her squad mates Gail and Rick – has been sent to a remote island research base after a message from one of their agents there.Īgain, dinosaurs! Dinosaurs! In a survival horror game, no less! ? So, let’s take a look at “Dino Crisis” ? So, reluctantly, I decided that it was probably better to run it using an emulator – even if getting this game to run on an emulator was a bit more complicated than usual and it also meant that I missed out on the dramatic rumble effects that are clearly supposed to happen during some boss battles too, I was just glad to finally play it again. Not only that, I only had one spare space left on my old PS1 memory card. I’ve been meaning to revisit the original game for quite a while….Īlthough I had originally planned to play “Dino Crisis” on my PS2, the disc was scratched enough to cause an annoying visual glitch every time I opened the item screen.
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Still, after a chance discovery in a charity shop ( or possibly a dingy corner of an actual game shop – anyone remember those?) in early-mid 2010, I ended up playing a budget copy of the more action-heavy sequel to it on the PC ( and I really need to re-play this sometime) and had a lot of fun with it. I guess I got stuck or found it a bit too complicated. I must have bought it second-hand sometime during my teenage years in the early-mid 2000s but, from the old save data on my PS1 memory card, I only played it for about half an hour then. Woo hoo! I’ve just finished playing “Dino Crisis” (1999) ? This survival horror game and I have an interesting history.