Editor's Choice: Top 5 Spooky Classics You Can Still Play on PlayStation 3
Take the engine of the Resident Evil games and swap zombies for dinosaurs, and you have the genre-bashing cult classic Dino Crisis. It would have been easy for this one to fall flat on its face, but Capcom managed to tap into a different, more primal type of terror. Instead of slow, stumbling zombies, you have to deal with one of humanity’s oldest, most primal fears. It worked for Spielberg and Jurassic Park, and it works here as well.
Plus, you get all the camp you expect from cheesy horror films with reaching premises, but with new clichés that keep it fresh. It’s almost criminal that this didn’t become a longer-running franchise.
5) Dino Crisis
Take the engine of the Resident Evil games and swap zombies for dinosaurs, and you have the genre-bashing cult classic Dino Crisis. It would have been easy for this one to fall flat on its face, but Capcom managed to tap into a different, more primal type of terror. Instead of slow, stumbling zombies, you have to deal with one of humanity’s oldest, most primal fears. It worked for Spielberg and Jurassic Park, and it works here as well.
Plus, you get all the camp you expect from cheesy horror films with reaching premises, but with new clichés that keep it fresh. It’s almost criminal that this didn’t become a longer-running franchise.
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