The Window-Smashing T-Rex Made For A Big Shock (Dino Crisis)
Perhaps the scariest dinosaur game ever made, Dino Crisis, has players navigating a remote facility infested with dinosaurs, Resident Evil-style. In one of the coolest and scariest encounters in the game, the protagonist Regina is quietly going about her business when a T-rex smashes through the window. The creature gobbles up a corpse and begins terrorizing Regina with its piercing roar, sharp teeth, and menacing yellow eyes. It may be hard to imagine how such a low-res dinosaur can be so scary, but at the time it was a jump scare like no other.
The game features five main characters, Regina, Gail, Rick, and Cooper, who are agents sent by a secret organization to investigate a science research facility, and Dr. Edward Kirk, who is the scientist at the facility.
On reaching the facility, they encounter dinosaurs and are attacked by them, and they now have to find a way to survive and escape the facility.
This Video Game is a survival horror video game produced by Shinji Mikami and designed by Shu Takumi, Kuniomi Matsushita, and Hiroyuki Kobayashi. It is played by a single player and is one of the 1999 video games released during that period.
Like a mix between Jurassic Parkand Doom, the classic survival horror game Dino Crisis is an exciting experience with a frightening twist. While attempting to recover a rogue scientist on a remote island, a team of special agents find themselves face to face with prehistoric monsters.
Celebrated for its cutting edge gameplay, Dino Crisis is still very much a product of its time when it comes to a fixed camera angle and somewhat clunky controls. Aside from that, the primordial nature of the game is reminiscent of Prey, and the player always feels somewhat helpless when fighting against the game's many dinosaurs.
Capcom's Dino Crisis made a massive impact on the original PlayStation at a time when survival horror games were in full swing. Utilizing the same fixed camera engine as Resident Evil, it held crossover appeal for gamers who wanted something different to fight besides zombies and giant snakes.
Dino Crisis may not look like much by today's standards, but it was sheer, unadulterated heart attack material for classic gamers stalked by velociraptors in claustrophobic hallways, or eaten alive by lumbering, limited-poly T-Rexes!