Overview on Dino Crisis 1 and 2.

[Rogue15]

I know these games have been out for over a year, but anyways...I'm bored and feel like putting some notes down on each of them.

 

Dino Crisis 1:

 

No health meter, more realistic, your health is determined by the character's body, if she's holding her stomach, she's injured, if she's limping that means she's badly injured, and if she's limping as well as bleeding, she's about to die.

 

Supplies are limited, ammo and health are sparse, and you've gotta conserve them, they're found in various places, and DO NOT respawn. And you can mix items and make health or poisonous darts, which can be loaded into your shotgun. You only get 3 weapons, the Pistol, Shotgun, and Grenade Launcher.

 

Dinosaurs are freightening. The dinosaurs pursue you through a room, just like they did in the kitchen of Jurassic Park. They'll grab hold of you and shake you to death if you don't press a bunch of buttons to get free. And if you shoot one, and he's laying on the ground, he could be playing dead and make one final attempt at ripping your neck out.

 

Puzzles, this game has 'puzzles' which are mostly figuring out key combos to door locks and finding keys, getting fingerprints to forge onto id cards, and gain access to the rest of the area.

 

Gameplay: This game took me 15 hours to beat. There's alot of backtracking, but it's usually for a reason, and when u do need to backtrack, you don't go for more than 10 minutes. Certain parts of the game require you to make decisions based on your team member's opinions, which makes the game have 3 different endings. The game has a 'dark' atmosphere to it, and takes place mostly inside, it really feels like a research facility after a while. There's dead researchers everywhere too. You earn costumes for your character to wear at the end. Also, if you beat the game in 8 hours or below, you unlock different things. I think one of them is 'Operation: Wipeout' where your objective is to kill all the dinosaurs within a certain amount of time. I've played this on my computer (it's on the dino crisis demo) and it's really fun, and scary.

 

Cutscenes: The cutscenes are FMV, and they look brilliant, the beginning cutscene is long.

 

Plot: The plot is really good, Dr. Kirk (the guy you gotta capture who's hiding in the facility) did this experiment with 'The Third Energy' and an accident occured, and brought dinosaurs who were roaming the same area millions of years ago into the present time. I'm not spoiling the rest of the plot though, since it's REALLY good, kinda hard to understand at first, but when u read alot of the clues and memos from the researchers, it's so awesome. The game is FREAKY though, since there's hardly ANY survivors, and the atmosphere is dark, and you can almost feel the Tyrannosaurus Rex walking outside your bedroom window while playing the game. heheheheeheheheheheheheheheheh ooops i mean: AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!! GOD HELP US WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Music: The music is PERFECT, it's not overplayed, it's mostly piano and other 'classical' instruments and they really set the 'scary' tone to the game.

 

Game Length: 15 hours total for me. It would've been longer without the help from Gamefaqs.com for 2 codes for the locks.

 

Dino Crisis 2:

 

They're swarming the place!!!! Dinosaurs are EVERYWHERE, so be on your guard at all times, and have your best weapon available. Don't worry about ammo, as you can load up on save points depending on the amount of 'extinction points' you get from killing the dinosaurs, and getting combos (killing more than 1 dino while the score or 'combo' is still up on the screen) There's alot of dinosaurs, more than in Dino Crisis 1, there's about 10 dinosaurs in the whole game. They all have different attacks and ways of harming you, and you must develop a different strategy against each one (that is, until you get the 'anti-tank weapon' )

 

There's a health meter, but it's not always displayed 'on screen', so you go to the menu where u select weapons, health and keys, and it's right there...kinda takes the scare out of it.

 

3 main characters: There's Dillan (the guy) and Regina (the girl, from Dino Crisis 1), and there's the NPC, David. You start out as Dillan, and you switch with Regina when Dillan completes his objective. And vice versa.

 

Weapons: there is ALOT of them. each character has their own unique weapons, in total there's about 15 weapons. Regina gets the fast automatic weapons, and Dillan gets the more powerful weapons (anti-tank gun!!!!!!!!!!). You buy the weapons and their ammo, and more ammo capacity at the save/shop points.

 

Gameplay: ok, kinda short though, i beat it in 8 hours. What you're supposed to do is collect dino files and get alot of extinction points, cause when u beat it, you'll earn a new mode called 'Dino Collesium' and u buy with ALL your extinction points earned throughout the game, the characters to use in it. You fight through the different dinosaurs, and u get a rank at the end. Not that great if u ask me...it gets old after a while, but wait there's more! if u beat it again you get 'Dino Duel' and it'll magically make that '1 player' thing on the back of your game disk and put a '2 player' on it. in short, it lets u and a friend fight. I haven't tried it cause i only have 1 controller, if i had 2 controllers nobody would wanna play it anyways...

 

Plot: The military has started using the third energy power and a military base, jungle, and city disappear into time, talk about a pathetic plan to get revenge for what the dinos did in dino crisis 1! Now the government realizes their mistake and sends a dinner tray back in time...oops i mean a squad of marines back in time, as well as Regina, to rescue the survivors and get the third energy data disk.

 

Cutscenes: The cutscenes are the BEST i've ever seen in a videogame. It's all done in FMV, but i felt like i was watching a better version of The Lost World! The beginning cutscene is so awesome!! but my favorite is after the triceratops chase where the people are....nevermind. hehehehehe that cutscene seems to move me i have no idea why.

 

Music: mostly jungle/techno/military kind of music it makes sense, but sometimes gets annoying, but usually the time it gets annoying, it stops all together.

 

Game Length: First time through it took me 8 hours and 25 minutes and 29 seconds. No puzzle solving or gamefaqs required. I've beaten the game 3 times in 1 whole week, it takes me around 5 hours to beat it now.

 

Note: Game Length is based on the easy difficulty setting.

 

THE END.

[Keiran Halcyon]

Hey! you like Dinosaurs, don't you? Me too!

 

I got that game (dinocrisis 1) and i liked it alot!!!! (i beated it 8-10 times in the first two weeks)

Do you know all the bonusses and cheats?

 

As far as i know there are:

- Three endings

- Difficulty level: HARD

- Difficulty level: +HARD

- Infinite grenade ammo

- Operation wipeout mode (in PC they give it from the beggining)

- 4 costumes (in PC they give them from the beggining too)

 

There are cheats that transform you on Rick, Gail, an Alien and Raptor, but i can't make them work

 

If you know more, tell me!

[Rogue15]

ya, i've liked dinosaurs since I was 3 or 5 i can't remember. hehe I knew how to pronounce their names too. I still have maybe 10-12 year old dinosaur books in my closet. they're probably worth a fortune, they're not even torn up.

[Rogue15]

Whoa, I just beat Dino Crisis 1 for my second time, got the different ending, and it only took me 4 hours and 6 minutes and 52 seconds. I saved 20 times.

 

awesome! It brought up this pic and said 'You have MAD Skillz!' eheheheheheheh I unlocked the Cave woman costume as well as Operation Wipeout or something like that. heheheheh

[Keiran Halcyon]

Now get the 3rd one!!!

 

PS: You got JP III??

If the answer is yes, please tell me if they have deleted something from the version seen in the cinema (as in the other two movies) Thanx

[Rogue15]

ya, I got Jurassic Park III on dvd, I don't know if they deleted anything...I never saw it at the theatre before I got it, just on my *cough*computer*cough* since my parents wouldn't take me to see it... I don't think there's any differences. They added alot of documentary and stuff like that, no deleted scenes tho...

[Keiran Halcyon]

*cough*pirate*cough*

They haven't deleted anything from the movie... good, i couldn't believe it when i realised that the explanation of the Trike stomachache in JP was deleted

[Rogue15]

I only did that cause I couldn't go see it at the theatres, and I would've bought it anyways had I not gotten it for xmas.

[Redwing]

Originally posted by Keiran_Halcyon

*cough*pirate*cough*

They haven't deleted anything from the movie... good, i couldn't believe it when i realised that the explanation of the Trike stomachache in JP was deleted

 

How could they have? The first two movies were pretty long. Makes sense to delete things because of time constraints.

 

As for JP3---awesome movie----TOO SHORT >.<

[Rogue15]

ya it was. btw, everyone, we found the reason why the dinosaurs aren't perfect to scale! Alan Grant says they were Genetically Engineered Theme Park Monsters. Remember the thing with the frogs cause they didn't have the whole dna code. hehe it's funny how me and red thought of it like at the same time. heheheheeh

[Keiran Halcyon]

are you talking about the velociraptors? They should as big as compys

 

Here are my supositions:

- The Spinosaurus is bigger than T-Rex because it is the Suchomimus, but they have put Spinosaurus name

- The Spinosaurus didn't appear in the other movies beacuse it was little?

- Raptors are bigger than they should be because they are Deinonychus but 'raptor' mname is more famous?

- Raptors in JPIII have feathers and different colors because:

- Maybe in the other movies they were all females (green eyes, no feathers)

- Maybe in JPIII they are other raptor species, (if you have played Tresspasser, its self explanatory)

- Pachycephalosaurus are little because they are hatchlings? (I think that in LW Robert Burk says 'look!, the pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis or Stygimoloch' (the Stygimoloch is smaller than pachy, but is different, it has horns...)

- Dilophosaurus in JP is little because its another hatchling?

- LW Pteranodons and JPIII Pteranodons are not alike - maybe other species (the LW toy was a 'Giant Pteranodon'...)

 

Non explicable things:

- In LW why the Pteranodons are free?????

- WHY they haven't put in any movies the Carnotaurus??? (Maybe because of Disney's Dinosaur...)

- The 'Something has evolved' thing. I suppose they are talking about the Spino, but how can a dinosaur evolve in few years!!!!! (Having frog DNA or not) (better say he was little )

- The oddest one: WHY IN THE HELL Dr. Alan Grant IS NOT married with Dr. Ellie Sattler??????????????????????<---- THE ONLY BAD THING IN THE JP SAGA

 

 

PS: I have seen in a page that the Pachy is called 'Pachycephalosaurus Wyomingensis, so lets say that they where babies

[Keiran Halcyon]

Why didn't they put the deleted scenes in the DVD???????? <---- THE OTHER ONLY BAD THING IN THE JP SAGA

 

 

PS: I know in the LW DVD there are deleted scenes, but they didn't appear in the movie.

[Rogue15]

The Deinonychus (i know i spelled it wrong) is a breed of Raptor. First time I saw Jurassic Park I didn't know what Velociraptor was, and assumed that dinosaur was a deinonychus. hehehe

 

The male raptors have feathers...all the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were female...the raptors were anyway, until they broke out and changed sex...

 

and that small hint 'Makes you wonder what else InGen has been up to.' that's definetely hinting a sequel.

[Keiran Halcyon]

I hope

 

Are the Deinonychus and Velociraptor that related??? They are dromeosaurians all right but... well i thought that raptors lived in asia and deinonichus in USA... If you know more tell me im very interested.

 

Maybe we see a new movie featuring odd mixed dinosaurs as the kenner toys? (I hope not please , just more new real dinos...)

[Keiran Halcyon]

oppps i knew that only male raptor have feathers, i forgot typing it (as you can see i had it in mind: 'maybe in the other movies they were all females (green eyes, no feathers)') I was trying to explain that in LW they do not have feathers ---> all females again? (maybe females hunt as do the lionneses... )

 

 

Other thing (possibly explicable if there are various raptor species) is that in JP and LW raptors have pupils as reptiles or cats, but in JPIII the got round pupils...

 

PS: you didn't say your opinion about grant and ellie not being married... hey another sequel.... nah, it would be a soap opera :D

[Rogue15]

they're not married cause Ellie wanted to have a baby, and Alan doesn't like kids.

 

I think the Deinonychus is a different species of raptor.

[Keiran Halcyon]

Originally posted by Rogue15

The Deinonychus (i know i spelled it wrong) is a breed of Raptor. First time I saw Jurassic Park I didn't know what Velociraptor was, and assumed that dinosaur was a deinonychus. hehehe

 

i supposed it but yu said 'is breed of raptor' doesn't breed a synonym of species? (tell me )

 

And about Alan: doesn't he like kids at the end of JP? And in JP he is playing with ellie's hatchling..oops baby:D

[Keiran Halcyon]

rogue15 please respond

[Rogue15]

ask redwing.

[Keiran Halcyon]

REDWING COME HERE!

[Keiran Halcyon]

arrrg, i have just hired the movie and IT ONLY LASTS 90 min!!!!! I thought redwing said it because he wanted more movie but that short.... Its cool anyway

[Keiran Halcyon]

well, remember that i said that the Spinosaurus is the suchiomimus instead, well, in the movie billy says ' suchiomimus?' and alan ' no bigger' billy then 'baryonyx?' and then alan 'with that spine? no, spinosaurus aegyptus'

 

well i have see in this page that it is the spinosaurus aegyptus http://www.dinodata.net/Dd/Namelist/Tabs/S092.htm

 

(better 'cause there is one less error )

[EvilleApplePie]

That's pretty cool. I used to be obsessed with Dinosaurs...and I almost got dino crisis for my DC...= / need money...x_x

[Redwing]

Okay, a few answers:

 

Different breeds are always the same species, because they have to be able to intermate.

 

Velociraptors were larger that Procompsognathus. But not nearly as large as depicted. Genetic engineering?

 

No one knows exactly for sure how big the Spinosaurus was. In any case, the Tyrannosaurus shown in the movie was not fully grown.

 

Velociraptors are too big most likely because they were genetically engineered that way.

 

The proper name for "raptor" is "dromaeosaur", A "raptor" is actually one of a group of birds of prey.

 

Velociraptors in JP3 differ from the other ones movies perhaps because they're a different subspecies or they were engineered differently.

 

- Pachycephalosaurus are little because they are hatchlings? (I think that in LW Robert Burk says 'look!, the pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis or Stygimoloch' (the Stygimoloch is smaller than pachy, but is different, it has horns...)

 

I didn't catch them saying that, but if they were that's pretty off base. Like you said, Stygimoloch sported a small set of horns sticking up behind its dome, which was smaller than Pachycephalosaurus' These horns gave it it's name, which means "Styx demon" (Styx is a river in the underworld from European mythology).

 

- Dilophosaurus in JP is little because its another hatchling?

 

I don't know about it being small, but I don't know why they added that ridiculous frill on its neck. :rolleyess Maybe, again, they were engineered to have those by the developers of the park, to make them more dramatic.

 

- LW Pteranodons and JPIII Pteranodons are not alike - maybe other species (the LW toy was a 'Giant Pteranodon'...)

 

TLW Pteranodons were pretty accurate, unlike the JP3 Pterandons. Beats me why they were changed. Of course, maybe they were just another species and/or genetically engineered that way.

 

In LW why the Pteranodons are free?????

 

Come again?

 

- The 'Something has evolved' thing. I suppose they are talking about the Spino, but how can a dinosaur evolve in few years!!!!! (Having frog DNA or not) (better say he was little )

 

To be sound dramatic in the advertising.

 

(BTW another complaint about JP3: I hope their horned dinosaur wasn't supposed to be a Ceratosaurus, because if it was, it was woefully inaccurate...)

 

The Deinonychus (i know i spelled it wrong) is a breed of Raptor. First time I saw Jurassic Park I didn't know what Velociraptor was, and assumed that dinosaur was a deinonychus. hehehe

 

You didn't spell it wrong, but Deinonychus was not a breed of raptor...in fact, they are both dromaeosaurs. Kieran is right---Velociraptor lived in Asia while Deinonychus lived in western North America. (In fact, most dromaeosaurs came from North America, including the namesake, Dromaeosaurus.) However, a man-sized raptor named Utahraptor discovered recently could have been the size shown in the JP series.

 

BTW, Billy's on crack, for not only does Baryonyx lack a spinal frill, it's also smaller than Suchomimus (however their facial structures are quite similar)

 

BTW Spinosaurus was probably smaller than Tyrannosarus without its sail, but with its sail, yes, it would have probably been taller....

[Keiran Halcyon]

Sorry but, yes it was a ceratosaurus (see the dinochart in the soundtrack ans DVD I think)

 

Dilophosaurus (the one who follows Nedry IS little (1 meter tor 1.5 m)) the dilophosaurs should be bigger, i think the one who gets in the car is bigger.

 

What means 'come again?' after the quote 'why the Pteros are free?'

 

But spinosaurus aegyptacus maybe was bigger, see this again:

 

http://www.dinodata.net/Dd/Namelist/Tabs/S092.htm it says that the only skeleton was destroyed during WWII.

 

And i recall a interview with Paul Sereno (i think you know who he is) that sayed that the Spinosaurus in JPIII was in fact the suchiomimus (because its big and has a spine). NOTE: he discovered the suchiomimus.