History Videogame / DinoCrisis

* AbandonedLaboratory: Also Abandoned City and Military Institution. Edward City was a place completely devoted to all sorts of Third Energy research. [[spoiler:By the time Regina and Dylan arrive to investigate, the city and everything else has been abandoned for years with the survivors moving to an outpost some distance from the city ruins.]]

** The ''Allosaurus'', which look like downsized version of the ''Tyrannosaurus'', and the ''Giganotosaurus'' that much larger than it was in real life. Also, ''Allosaurus'', ''Giganotosaurus'' and ''Tyrannosaurus'' didn't live in the same time period, and ''Giganotosaurus'' lived in a completely different ''region''. Then again, given the absurd resilience they display, that's the least of the heroes' problems.

* {{Bait And Switch Boss}}: See {{Always A Bigger Fish}}.

* TerrorDactyl: The ''Pteranodon'' are back and vicious as ever. This time they are joined by the yellow ''Pteranodon sternbergi'' (now ''Geosternbergia'') and a much stronger variant.

* UnexplainedRecovery: Both Paula and Dylan are Mike Wired's guide -- despite seemily ''dying'' in the last game. The only plausible explanation is that Regina found a way to prevent their fates similar to what Paula does for Mike at the end of this game.

'''Rick''': [[SarcasmMode I'm glad YOU'RE amused]], but if that guy gets eaten, we're going to have to retrieve that key from the dinosaur's stomach. ({{Beat}}) [[CaptainObvious You've got to save him!]]\\

* DownerEnding: Depending on which ending you get, and on how you interpret it.

** ShortRangeShotgun: Annoyingly enough.

'''Rick:''' *faintly* This is just like [[Film/JurassicPark that movie]].

* ShownTheirWork: The data file for ''Oviraptor'' mentions that its name meaning "Egg Thief" was based on misconception, only to turn out it does eat eggs anyways. This is a reference to the fact that ''Oviraptor'' got its name because the holotype specimen was found near a nest of eggs, as if it was trying to steal them, but it later turned out to be looking after its own eggs, but being an omnivore with a powerful, shell-cracking beak, it most likely would have eaten eggs if it got the chance.

* PerilousPrehistoricSeas: The third level has Mike Wired travel on a boat to reach his designated spot of reaching a 3rd Energy Facility. Along the way, he has to battle against swarms of ''Plesiosaurs'' and ''Mosasaurs''.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Every dinosaur has something wrong with it, or has been made unnaturally bullet-resistant for RuleOfScary. Apart from RaptorAttack and TerrorDactyl, there are also the ''Therizinosaurus''. They look barely like the real ones; they have crested carnosaur-like heads, featherless bodies, shorter claws and necks, longer arms, and larger feet, with none of the pot bellies you would expect to see on a real ''Therizinosaurus''. They eat meat, crush their victims underfoot, and are MadeOfIron. Even worse in that the game was made ''after'' therizinosaurs were discovered to have the long neck and beaked snout we now know they had (although ''Therizinosaurus'' itself was still poorly understood at that time). Plus all the animals are stated to be from the end of the Cretaceous and the same area, when some of them actually lived millions of years and thousands of miles apart (for example, the North American ''Tyrannosaurus'' coexisting with the Asian ''Velociraptor'' and ''Therizinosaurus'', plus ''Velociraptor'' lived earlier in the Campanian while ''T. rex'' and ''Therizinosaurus'' lived later in the Maastrichtian). Most jarring is ''Compsognathus'', which lived in ''Late Jurassic Europe''!

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Every dinosaur has something wrong with it, or has been made unnaturally bullet-resistant for RuleOfScary. Apart from RaptorAttack and TerrorDactyl, there are also the ''Therizinosaurus''. They look barely like the real ones; they have crested carnosaur-like heads, featherless bodies, shorter claws and necks, longer arms, and larger feet, with none of the pot bellies you would expect to see on a real ''Therizinosaurus''. They eat meat, crush their victims underfoot, and are MadeOfIron. Even worse in that the game was made ''after'' therizinosaurs were discovered to have the long neck and beaked snout we now know they had (although ''Therizinosaurus'' itself was still poorly understood at that time).

* RedshirtArmy: The opening scene shows all the members of TRAT getting killed and eaten by raptors.

* ''Dino Crisis'' (1999, UsefulNotes/PlayStation)
** Later received a port on the [[UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast Dreamcast]] and Windows PC in 2000; it was re-released on the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation Network}} in 2011.

** Received a port on PC in 2003; it was re-released on the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation Network}} in 2011.
* ''[[GaidenGame Dino Stalker]]'', a.k.a. ''[[MarketBasedTitle Gun Survivor 3: Dino Crisis]]'' (2002, UsefulNotes/PlayStation2)
* ''Dino Crisis 3'' (2003, UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}})

** Tears were likely shed for the venom-spitting, featherless ninja ''Oviraptors'' as well.

** Oh and don't forget the presence of ''Inostrancevia'', a therapsid from the late Permian, which predates ''Tyrannosaurus'' by almost 200 million years! Plus it is portrayed with reptilian scales and armor, despite being a ''mammal-ancestor''.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Paula ends up trapped in a building about to explode, with Dylan staying behind and sending Regina home so she can save them at an earlier time with the Third Energy data.]]

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Edward City and the dinosaurs.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The ''Giganotosaurus'', which literally busts in out of nowhere. The only foreshadowing you get is a file that you may or may not even pick up.

* MadeOfIron: The ''Allosaurus''.