History VideoGame / DinoCrisis

* SeldomSeenSpecies: When was the last time you saw ''Inostrancevia'' in a video game?

** Also slightly subtler, the shotgun is the same model as was used in ''Film/JurassicPark'' when fully upgraded.

* DarkerAndEdgier- Subverted. While there are many more dinosaurs to contend with, nearly all of the action takes place in daylight, and even in hard mode, the terminals and point system makes weapons and health items much easier to obtain thanin the first game.

* DarkerAndEdgier- Subverted. While there are way more dinosaurs to contend with, nearly all of the action takes place in daylight, and the weapons and health items are way easier to come by as oposed to their scarcity in the first game.

* AlwaysABiggerFish - Towards the end of the game, the ''T. rex'' that has been chasing the player characters since literally the opening cutscene gets [[CurbStompBattle curbstomped]] by a Giganotosaurus about twice its size. [[MST3KMantra Ignore the crying paleontologists and prepare for a boss fight... several of them.]]

** Actually, the ScienceMarchesOn trope subverts itself somewhat when one considers that (a) some paleontologists feel that Therizinosaurs, particularly the more basal forms like Falcarius were omnivores at the very least and probably chased down live prey on occasion; (b), even if the Therizinosaurus itself was a full-time herbivore, its entire clade is descended from Raptor-like carnivores; and (c) Therizinosaurs are thought to have behaved like grizzly bears and giant ground sloths...which is to say, they were highly territorial. RuleOfScary still applies in full, because no known Therizinosaur even remotely resembles those depicted in the game.

* FunWithAcronyms / {{Heroes R Us}} - Dylan and David's unit, TRAT (Tactical Reconnoitering and Acquisition Team)

* {{Minigame}} - Several in-game, such as an OnRailsShooter fighting off the Triceratops and defending David from raptors with a turret as he opens a valve. After beating the game once, there's also "Dino Colosseum" and "Dino Duel."

* FunWithAcronyms / {{Heroes R Us}} - Patrick, McCoy, Sonya and Jacob's unit, SOAR (Special Operations And Reconnaissance)

* {{Redshirt}} - McCoy, the [[FourIsDeath fourth]] person to survive the destruction of the ''Seyfert'' gets killed by an Australis during the first few minutes of the game.

** Actually, the ScienceMarchesOn trope subverts itself somewhat when one considers that (a) some paleontologists feel that Therizinosaurs, particularly the more basal forms like Falcarius were omnivorous and probably chased down live prey on occasion; (b), even if the actual Therizinosaurus was a full-time herbivore, its entire clade likely branched off from a common ancestor with the Raptors and was thus, carnivorous; and (c) Therizinosaurs are thought to have behaved like grizzly bears and giant ground sloths...which is to say, they were highly territorial. RuleOfScary still applies in full, because no known Therizinosaur even remotely resembles those depicted in the game.

** Actually, the ScienceMarchesOn trope subverts itself somewhat when one considers that (a) some paleontologists feel that Therizinosaurs, particularly the more basal forms like Falcarius were omnivorous and (b), even if the actual Therizinosaurus was a full-time herbivore, its entire clade likely branched off from a common ancestor with the Raptors and was thus, carnivorous. RuleOfScary still applies in full, because no known Therizinosaur even remotely resembles those depicted in the game.

** For example, the ''T. rex'' [[http://s42.radikal.ru/i098/0809/5d/a06e87246ba6.jpg looks like]] a dinosaur version of [[ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]].

* EscortMission - A convoluted one involves saving the undercover operative Tom, and getting him to a medical room to cure his wounds. Fortunately, Rick is there to take care of Tom, so your job is largely to remove the obstacles. Even better, they will sit and wait patiently until you have finished, and since Rick has a rifle with him, they're not helpless.
* EvilBrit - Dr. Edward Kirk.

* FetchQuest - Once or twice you have to fetch items, usually keys, for specific purposes, such as for restoring the power.
* FixedCamera - You have no control over the camera, which varies from being perfectly still to following Regina down a corridor. Some reviews criticised the system, pointing out that it often meant taking a corner blind.
** RuleOfScary was probably applied, hence the reason why you can't see around some corners.

* IncrediblyDurableEnemies

** To a lesser extent, the poison darts for the shotgun. Sure, it costs Resuscitation Packs to make them, but seeing a [[DemonicSpiders Therazinosaur]] convulse in its death spasms from only one shot is an absolutely ''beautiful'' sight to behold.

* InstantSedation - The tranq. darts.

* JerkAss - Doctor Kirk and Gail.

* LetsSplitUpGang - Regina is always working alone.
* LightningBruiser - The raptors.

* MadeOfIron - Shoot the T-Rex all you want, none of your guns will kill it. The Therizinosaurs are also ridiculously tough.

** Example: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGfC9TyFtkM The track This Place Is Deserted Though]] is featured early on in the first game. It can keep you up at night.

* PreMortemOneLiner - "End of the line for you, handsome...You're extinct!"

* ActionizedSequel - The first game was very much focused on bare-bones survival, giving you very limited ammo to carry around, and relatively weak weapons[[hottip:+ :For example, one item-slot only let you hold 34 handgun bullets. If you were ''lucky'', this was enough to bring down three Raptors.]]. This game tosses all this out the window: You build up combos by slaughtering dinos by the dozen, and you can buy ever larger weapons and ammo to do it with.

* PaletteSwap - The Super Raptors make a return.

* GamerChick: After a rails shooter section in the second game Regina will comment on Dylan hanging out at video game arcades.

* KnightOfCerebus - Somewhat, the Therizinosaurs in the underground late in the game. They are much harder to kill than raptors. And don't comically fall over when they hit the laser gates. Cutting the time they are stunned short. They are also more likely to burst through doors to case after you.

* NewGamePlus - Starting a new game from the old one allows you to carry over costumes (''Dino Crisis'').

* PathOfMostResistance - At one point in the first game, you can choose to follow Gail and fight your way out of the lower level of the laboratory instead of letting Rick open an emergency passage for you.

* ShaggyDogStory - [[spoiler: Tom dies even if you go to all that effort with Rick to save him, because [[DiabolusExMachina a raptor was sleeping in the Medical room]].]]

* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying - Every dinosaur has something wrong with it, or has been made unnaturally bullet-resistant for RuleOfScary. Apart from RaptorAttack and PteroSoarer, there are also the Therizinosaurs in the first game. They look barely like the real ones; they have crested heads, featherless bodies, and a less upright stance, with none of the pot bellies you would expect to see on real Therizinosaurs. They eat meat, crush their victims underfoot, and are MadeOfIron. Combines ScienceMarchesOn and RuleOfScary.
* SortingAlgorithmOfWeaponEffectiveness - In the first game, you only get three weapons (handgun, shotgun, and grenade launcher), but you can find a pair of upgrades for each gun scattered throughout the game.

* MassTeleportation - Edward City when it Third Energy reactor overloads. [[spoiler:What the Noah's Ark Plan is purposefully trying to do.]]

* CopyProtection - If you try to play this game on a modded PS1, you are likely to get a [[JumpScare scare]] as the screen suddenly quick-switches to a prohibited sign with Japanese text that amounts to, "Software has been terminated. This game may have been copied."

* TakeAThirdOption - In the end of the first ''DinoCrisis'', Regina must choose between [[spoiler: helping a mortally wounded Gail (Regina's commanding officer) apprehend the renegade scientist Dr. Kirk, causing Gail to die in the process; or knock Gail out, forcing him to escape the island without capturing Dr. Kirk. The third option comes when the player chooses to knock out Gail, only to go after Dr. Kirk alone.]]

* WithThisHerring - DinoCrisis begins with cutscenes and an introductory area featuring Regina and her fellow soldiers. The others have large automatic rifles, but Regina is carrying only a pistol. Some cheat codes actually allowed you to begin the game with different weapons, so you could give her a riot gun just so she'd look suitably badass in those scenes.

* RaptorAttack - The raptors that appear in the game are lifted straight out of JurassicPark: featherless, oversized and excessively aggressive, they seem to roam alone or in packs as the game demands and are apparently smart enough to work their way through [[spoiler: elevator shafts]].

-->'''Rick:''' * faintly* This is just like [[JurassicPark that movie.]]

** Also slightly subtler, the shotgun is the same model as was used in ''JurassicPark'' when fully upgraded.

* XMeetsY - ResidentEvil meets JurassicPark.

* XMeetsY - DevilMayCry meets JurassicPark.

** Example: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGfC9TyFtkM The track This Place Is Deserted Though]] is featured early on in the first game. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel It can keep you up at night.]]

* FunWithAcronyms / {{Heroes R Us}} - Regina, Gail and Rick's unit is SORT (Secret Operation Raid Team). This isn't mentioned in the game or in the manual, and was only revealed in the sequel.

* SpyCatsuit - The outfits of Regina, Gail, Cooper and Rick.

''Dino Crisis'' is a SurvivalHorror game series by {{Capcom}}, the first of which came out in 1999. The game had a lot of similarities to the company's [[ResidentEvil other Survival Horror]] series, and has often been compared to it, even though Capcom originally insisted it was a new genre they called "panic horror". Mainly because, as the name suggests, [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs you fight dinosaurs]]. The series has not seen a new installment since ''Dino Crisis 3'' in 2003, however, the main character of the original two games, Regina, does appear in the 2005 crossover game ''[[CapcomVsWhatever Namco X Capcom]]'' and the "Borginian Republic" the first game takes place in is reused in various parts of the AceAttorney franchise ([[WildMassGuessing Make of that what you will]]).

* JumpScare - Par for the course of the horror game, and one of the reasons why Capcom tried to have it branded as the first Panic Horror title. See for example, the [[EstablishingCharacterMoment head of the ''T. rex'' smashes through the window in the office]] on the second floor in the first game. [[SequenceBreaking Which by the way can be triggered by accident.]]

* TheRadioDiesFirst - The radio man, Cooper, gets hunted down by the ''T. rex'' in the opening cutscene of ''Dino Crisis''.

* RedShirt - In the first game Cooper, who does not even make it out of the opening FMV.

* {{Knockback}} - The [[PteroSoarers Pteranodons]] like to knock Dylan and Regina onto their asses.

* DeathIsCheap - The Resuscitation Packs [[ExactlyWhatItSayOnTheTin resuscitates you]] if you die.

->This isn't a joke, you idiot! I was just attacked by a big-ass lizard!

!''Dino Crisis''

* AndYourRewardIsClothes - You can unlock three alternate costumes for Regina in the first game. As a cameo, in ResidentEvil3, one of the outfits Jill gets is one that makes her look exactly like Regina.

* DeadlyGas - There is a puzzle in the first game where Regina has to access a sealed room where a researcher has barricaded himself. For some reason, the room he's in is filled with a fair amount of poisonous gas. By using the helpful hint left in the previous room, you can combine the gases in such a way as to neutralize them in order to gain entry. He gives you an important key card before expiring. Near him is a small key you can use in the Medical Room in order to obtain extra goodies.

* FurBikini - One of the bonus outfits in the first game.

** To a lesser extent, the poison darts for the shotgun. Sure, it costs Resuscitation packs to make them, but seeing a [[DemonicSpiders Therazinosaur]] convulse in its death spasms from only one shot is an absolutely ''beautiful'' sight to behold.

* ItsUpToYou - In the first game, Regina is the only one who collects key items and kills (most of the) dinosaurs, despite having two teammates with her.

* KnightOfCerebus: Somewhat, the Therizinosaurs in the underground late in the game. They are much harder to kill than raptors. And don't comically fall over when they hit the laser gates. Cutting the time they are stunned short. They are also more likely to burst through doors to case after you.

* PointOfNoReturn - After a certain point in the first game, the ''T. rex'' destroys the over-sized elevator leading to the lower levels of the lab, leaving you unable to return to the surface.

* StandardStatusEffects - After an attack, your character can end up bleeding which slowly saps your HP. Unless you use [[StatusBuff a Hemostat]], your character can end up bleeding to death if their health is low enough.

!''Dino Crisis 2''

* [[spoiler:KillSat - You need to use one to take out the Giganotosaurus once and for all.]]

* TheWorfEffect: The Giganotosaurus introduces himself by crashing through a wall, grabbing the ''T. rex'' in its jaws, holding it in the air, throwing it against a wall and then eating it.

!''Dino Stalker'' (a.k.a. ''[[ResidentEvilGunSurvivor Gun Survivor]] 3: Dino Crisis'')
A first-person shooter starring Mike Wired, a World War II pilot who becomes stranded in the dinosaur-ridden future thanks to the timeline meddling that occurred in the earlier games.

!''Dino Crisis 3''

* [[spoiler:AIIsACrapshoot]] - [[spoiler:After the crew of the ''U.N. Ozymandias'' dies, MTHR goes insane from loneliness and creates the dinosaur-like monsters. [[MamaBear She's quite protective of them and considers them her children.]]]]

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs - [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in this case considering its lackluster reception (and the fact that the first two games are pretty old, graphics-wise) has led to {{Capcom}} to [[FranchiseKiller leave the franchise by the wayside.]]

* FranchiseKiller: Fans of at least one of the first two games generally regard it as such.

* HeroicSacrifice - ''Dino Crisis 3'' has two, [[spoiler:Jacob and Caren]].

* MorePredatorsThanPrey - Probably [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to the fact that [[spoiler:they were created artificially by mixing human and dinosaur genetic codes by a lonely and insane A.I..]]

* Redshirt - McCoy, the [[FourIsDeath fourth]] person to survive the destruction of the ''Seyfert'' gets killed by an Australis during the first few minutes of the game.

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