There’s also elements of time travel which again I absolutely wasn’t expecting given the horror base here – but it works extremely well. Eventually the game opens up and plays its hand which I wasn’t expecting at all – everything here is built around this concept of ‘third energy’, a power source which many political entries want to harness and has a connection to the appearance of the dinosaurs at this facility. See, the opening hours are filled with misinformation and slowly uncovering what happens which feeds into the horror roots and there’s definitely a brilliant sense of tension built by running round the desolate corridors and occasionally having a dinosaur break in and terrorize you. The actual plot itself is really interesting too, once it gets going. With that said, she steps up towards the final chapters and reminds me of similar PS1 gaming heroines like Jill Valentine and Laura Croft – I definitely appreciated her as a lead and look forward to learning more about her in the second entry. The trio form a likable group and there’s definite conflict between them (manifested as choices Regina has to make on who to side with when making a significant decision), although Gail and Rick are far more developed as characters with Regina feeling a little like a blank slate at times. It’s not long before they discover that this facility is overrun with a foe they could never have imagined – dinosaurs!ĭino Crisis follows Regina, a tough-as-nails Ripley-esque female agent who has to unravel what’s happening here and help her team escape, along with her hard-headed superior Gail and more reserved teammate Rick. When four operatives from the Secret Operation Raid Team are sent to a remote island to investigate the disappearance of one of their own, they quickly discover the area is on lockdown with corpses strewn everywhere riddled with suspicious-looking scratch marks.

Capcom’s ‘ Resident Evil with dinosaurs’ crafts its own identity and tells a uniquely interesting story set on a creepy deserted island that manages to strike the right balance between new ideas and concise running time.

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