12. Dino Crisis
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Platform(s): PC, PS1, PSP, Dreamcast
Dino Crisis may have used many elements from the Resident Evil series, but it’s a terrifying horror title that deserves to stand separate from Capcom’s zombie-romp.
In fact, the original Dino Crisis is, at times, even scarier than the two Resident Evil games that preceded it. Velociraptors may not be rotting corpses, but their persistence and ability to crash through doors, leaving you with little choice but to expend precious ammo on them, gave gamers quite the jump. Even the lumbering tyrannosaur, a dinosaur many of us have treasured since adolescence, found ways to be scary.
Though many movies have tried, Dino Crisis is the first across any medium to successfully root dinosaurs in horror (though Jurassic Park came really close).