The goal for Dino Crisis in development was to make a more fast-paced style of survival horror, which the developers referred to as panic horror. Instead of scrounging bullets to take down shambling zombies, you have a good amount of options to take down dinosaurs who are much faster and stronger than you. Preparation is the key to panic horror; you need to learn how to assemble your inventory and develop backup plans for the inevitable surprise attacks. It’s a fun and fresh take on the genre, but it does feel limited by the Playstation’s hardware and the Resident Evil development heritage. The mental picture of dinosaurs chasing you as you frantically activate laser grids is one thing, but the reality of stiffly navigating hallways as the dinosaurs get stuck on corners is another. If Dino Crisis lived up to the strength of its premise, I think I would like it even more than Resident Evil, but it never got the refinement its sister series enjoyed in sequels and remakes. I can still give this game a recommendation, but it pains me how much more I feel this series could have been.

El juego en general es bastante bueno, salvo por la cantidad absurda de Puzles (seguidos) que el juego entrega, lo que puede ser algo agotador. Fuera de eso, los dinosaurios presentan una amenaza mas que digna en el entorno donde se desarrolla la obra, la historia es la típica de científicos experimentando con maquinaria futurista, lo cual sirve como excusa para dar pie al conflicto principal, las instalaciones son un escenario mas que desafiante a la hora de moverse y defenderse de los dinos, teniendo menos recursos que en juegos como Resident Evil, al existir la posibilidad de sacar recursos de las distintas terminales que el juego otorga.
En fin, un clásico de los SV de antaño que no te puedes perder.

"Why don't we make resident evil but with raptors?"
"Awesome!"

"And one of these retardosauruses will take half of your inventory to kill making combat useless."
"Wait."

"And every door will now require you to find either two keycards or jump through a flaming hoop saying that you love this game."
"WAIT!"

"And the big bad boss T-Rex will die in like four shotgun shots. If you time it well, it'll never even attack."
"What the fuck..."

Although there are two good things here.
1. Regina's thighs.
2. T-Rex entry cutscene on a roof. That music piece was marvelous.

Dino Crisis has been on my backlog since I was a teenager. Before I even kept track of such things. I'm a lifelong Resident Evil fan. With a preference for the PSX titles. So, going over to friends and seeing the game in action was always a treat. I knew I would best the game one day. Just a matter of time... cut to 20+ years later. How does that happen?

Starting the game I found myself grinning ear to ear. The survival horror aspects are chefs kiss perfection. The dinosaurs are a threat brother. They don't play around. Unless flanked by two, I found it best to run when given the chance. But they didn't just beef up the enemies and call it a day. No, the raptors are intelligent. They will chase your ass into a hallway/room just when you think you can take a breather.

The game compensates for the increased threat with improved controls(Quick Turn!) and better gear/ammo. As a seasoned RE vet I never felt myself needing of ammo. I played smart. Not engaging with the combat system unless needed. And while I guess they can be seen as a flaw I quite enjoyed the arcade style DANGER! moments in cut scenes. Being capable of dying in cutscenes add to the pulse pounding nature of an intense game.

But here is where my complaints start to come in. I say intense game but I really only mean that for the first half. Maybe even third. The game eventually gives way to questionable design choices. Take all of the things people poke fun at Resident Evil and crank them up for the worse. The backtracking, inventory management, and puzzles I found tedious at a certain point. The inventory management not being relegated to a single magical chest is a downgrade for me. Harking back to RE Zero in this way.

And the puzzles. The word puzzles :l I get what they were going for. I thought they were fun at first. But, in my personal opinion, these word puzzles hang around for too long. Overstaying their welcome and begging for variety.

I don't have a lot to say about the story. It does the best it can with its over the top Dino subject matter. The main character is a badass. Something the adjacent RE series did well was cool women characters. Dino Crisis is no exception here. At the same time the story feels like it just sort of ends. Not a bad ending or anything. Just there.

Overall I still enjoyed my time with Dino Crisis. At the same time the parts I didn't enjoy are going to hold me back from replays. I think objectively speaking it's probably a better game than RE3. Though my nostalgia wont allow me to accept that in my heart, haha. Still, I'd be interested in know what you all have to say about the game.

Not a great game but a more than decent survival horror.

It has become a cliché to define it as "RE but with dinosaurs!", but it's because that's absolutely true.

Same clumsy tank controls, but yeah, in RE1 there were some moments where you were allowed to chill: zombies are slow, don't open doors, don't have more than one type of attack... Dino Crisis has focused on destroying that quietness that comes when you understand what enemies can and can't do.

Decent voice acting, but music is not great and the plot is too complex and doesn't get scary. Some puzzles are fun, but are logical games that hardly are integrated into the narrative, more than riddles. It makes sense in a way: it's a more sci-fi survival horror than RE.

It's quite hard and the ending part assembling the generator was tedious to me. Avoiding dinosaurs –some with an unpredictable respawn–, saving bullets, feeling totally overwhelmed by the situation... that was the cool part.

It has its moments.

Dino Crisis is a game I liked a lot more when it released than I do now. I mean I love Resident Evil and dinosaurs and that's pretty much what this is and I know that's why I liked it in it's day but now doesn't hold up so great in my mind.

Pros:
Cool premise
Great survival horror feel
T-Rex stalker enemy is great
Regina is a cool lead
Multiple endings / choices

Cons:
There's only four dino's in the game. Raptor (color variants), T-Rex, Pterodactyl's sporadically and one other raptor like dino that's tankier. Thats it.
Puzzles are more work than fun and there are a lot of them.
Low Weapon variety and combat is not fun or satisfying
Lame antagonist
Too many pass codes and data disc collecting. Seriously there are some obtuse pass code solutions.
No bonus modes or unlockables

While detractors may cry "Well it's just Resident Evil with dinosaurs, innit?" that doesn't mean it's a bad thing. In fact it's a very, very good thing indeed, coming only a few years off the back of dinosaur hype care of Jurassic Park, it offered pitch perfect tension and action. In hindsight if you dip into this with a modern eye, you'll obviously spot the deficiencies, the same that all this style of game suffered, with the graphics resembling a dithered, aliased mess of colour that jerk from one dodgy camera angle to the next, but put in a more reasonable context it really is the T-Rex's bollocks.

Não não não não, alguma coisa está errada, Dino Crisis do céu o que foi isso? Eu fui pra um universo paralelo? Esse jogo sempre foi tão medíocre assim?

De ínicio eu quero apontar uma coisa. Como todo Survival Horror, administração de recursos é essencial, e eu fiz exatamente isso, fui pra batalha final com:

- 30 Balas de pistola
- 20 Balas de Shotgun, com a variante SG que é mais forte
- 16 Grenade Bullets pra Grenade Launcher
- 6 Heat Rounds, também pra mesma
- 2 Med Kits completos
- 2 Revives
- 2 Hemostats que curam sangramento

Ou seja, eu desviei de dinossauros pra cacete e poupei muita bala, dificultei alguns trechos de backtraking pois tinha que economizar, mas tudo iria valer a pena, porque fui tunado pra batalha final encarando qualquer desafio que o jogo jogasse em mim, né?. Pena que de tudo isso, o boss final morreu com 4 balas de Grenade Launcher seguido de créditos na minha cara.

Eu nem to bravo, puto, decepcionado, querendo que o mundo exploda nem nada do gênero, eu só estou chateado mesmo. Dino Crisis é um jogo que por muito tempo antecipei jogar, tanto por amar o gênero, amar a Capcom e amar Resident Evil.

A ideia do jogo é bem interessante, seu marketing era que ele seria um Panic Horror, em que o foco seria mais fugir do que lutar, isso por si só não seria um problema. O problema é o jogo ter um level design desastroso e um ambiente enjoativo e genérico, onde mesmo após zerar eu mal decorei seu mapa e já esqueci seus ambientes.

Mas o pior ainda estava por vir, que seriam os puzzles. É um mais chato que o outro e difícil por nada. Não me entenda errado, não estou falando que eles deviam ser fáceis, muito pelo contrário, o primeiro Silent Hill tem puzzles crípticos e enigmáticos, mas eu consegui completá-los sem ver guia e a satisfação é imensa, mas em Dino Crisis, você vai fugir de dinossauros o tempo todo num backtracking em um mapa terrível realizando puzzles chatos que parecem que são assim apenas pra estender o tempo de jogo. E os itens também não ajudam, é sempre Key Card, Disco, Key Card, Disco, repeat pelo jogo INTEIRO.

A história é ok, não é nada avassaladora mas seu conceito é bem interessante, pena que faltou ter personagens interessantes que deixassem as coisas fluirem bem, a Regina é uma badass, ela consegue se segurar como lead, mas você não sabe quem é ela ou de onde ela veio, muito menos seus pensamentos e ambições pra poder conectar com a personagem, é tudo bem rasinho, você a conhece apenas pelos seus feitos durante o jogo. Os outros então... puts.

Dino Crisis precisa urgente de um remake, não por ser datado, Resident Evil 2 teve um remake maravilhoso mas o original continua atemporal. Mas sim porque não conseguiu alcancar seu potencial, ficando sendo apenas um jogo bem chato, não ruim, mas chato.

Es aquí en donde podemos escuchar el clásico “es Resident Evil, pero con dinosaurios”, y la frase en sí, no está muy equivocada que digamos. Dino Crisis llega al mundo en medio del boom de los survival horror y logra diferenciarse del resto aun tomando prestadas muchas de las mecánicas vistas en la gran saga llena de zombis de Capcom. Nunca se les había tenido tanto respeto a los dinosaurios hasta que Dino Crisis fue desarrollado; encontrarse a un velociraptor en un pasillo significa poner a nuestro cerebro en modo de supervivencia y comenzar a pensar en la manera de superarlo, siempre, sin importar en qué momento del juego se nos ponga uno por delante, lo anterior sumado a mapeados claustrofóbicos, municiones escasas y acertijos que están muy bien ambientados y adaptados a un entorno realista hacen de la experiencia de Dino Crisis una superior a Resident Evil. Altamente recomendado.