Dino Crisis also feels like much more of an arcade game. With floating, spinning ammo crates, 'resuscitation' medicine that will bring you back to life, and five continues, I kept trying to stick a quarter into my Playstation. Now there's nothing wrong with arcade action, but
Dino Crisis has hardly any arcade action, so the arcade elements just ruined the mood. In
Resident Evil, death was permanent… more or less.
The mood is really where Dino Crisis fails. The clean, cold lab with its roaming raptors just isn't very scary. Perhaps zombies are just scarier than dinosaurs? Who knows. Besides, dinosaurs have really small brains… barely a mouthful.
Despite a slick new 3D engine,
Dino Crisis manages to do just about everything worse than
Resident Evil 2. It's not as scary, the rooms all look the same, the puzzles are far more tedious, there are far fewer hours of gameplay, and the action isn't as good. Take my advice and save your pennies for
Resident Evil: Nemesis (PSX) or
Codename: Veronica (DC). I'm positively
drooooling over those games.
