The manual strongly recommends using a joypad, but doesn't tell you how to configure the damn thing. Unless you manage to figure out the really incomprehensible options screen you're stuck with the default configuration, which uses buttons spread at random across the pad.
You do eventually get used to it, but a few notes in the manual wouldn't have gone amiss. Other little niggles exist such as not being able to use the keyboard to enter various pass-codes. Instead you've got to slide a cursor around with the joypad for half-an-hour and pray you don't make a mistake to avoid going back and spending half-an-hour deleting it. A minor point, but for some reason, the in game options menu has a 'reset game' option, which takes you back to the Main Menu.
This really is a little silly - call it 'Quit' or 'Return to Main Menu' or anything other than 'Reset'. But the real star prize, and I still have trouble believing they've really done this but After putting the manual under a microscope and an extensive search of the readme, there's nothing, nada, zip.
The actual method involves tapping F9 a few times, but no where is this documented. Oh dear. Things don't pick up much when you first start playing, either. Although the intro movie is OK, with one of your teammates getting eaten by a T-Rex, the graphics at first seem very old and tired.
Textures are bland, the resolution is looks hideously low even if it is x and, of course, there are no options to alter it. Sprites have a nasty habit of wobbling about, not so bad with the chain link fences at the start but when walls start to twist and sway it can make you feel physically sick.
There are even little black lines around some graphics, which look like they've been cut out from the Playstation and pasted back into place on the PC. That said, the animation is pretty good. The dinosaurs move around with a surprising amount of athleticism and watching them pound after you gives you a genuine urge to leggit as fast as you possibly can. Even though you're more or less restricted to the default controls, they're pretty easy to pick up and before long you're blasting away with the pros.
What really helps is the camera which for the most part works surprisingly well, and I say "surprisingly" because just about all games with a third-person view point since the beginning have time have had camera angles where you can't see anything, can't tell where you're going, or see the trap you're about to walk into.
Dino Crisis , for the most part, avoids these problems. You can see exactly what you need to, and a lot of developers could learn from the camera angles because they tell you what you need to know whilst helping to maintain the atmosphere. There are only occasional problems where Regina has to head towards the camera and you can't see what's coming up, and there were a few instances where some hefty scenery makes it difficult to see what's going on.
But these are the exceptions rather than the rule. The camera angles are also set-up well in the animated cut-scenes, which are well developed and even reasonably scripted. The voice acting is of a good standard, especially the voice of Regina, which is actually better than many of the old interactive movies. The only thing that stands out is the name of one of your companions, Gail. He, yup, he is a tough, mission-comes-first, sod-everything-else macho man.
Called Gail. What the game plays like depends on the decisions you make. Go with Gail and you'll spend most of your time blasting or running away from the dinos; go with Rick and you'll be solving puzzles instead.
Combat is pretty simple but works quite well. Although there are only three different weapons in the game you get little upgrades along the way, which make them more powerful.
You can also make stun darts by mixing ingredients in your inventory which knock out the dinosaurs rather than kill them outright. For some reason these are fired from the shotgun rather than the handgun. The enemies also possess some kind of intelligence, although they're not hyper-intelligent - after all, they are dinosaurs. One of their favourite tricks is to play dead, and when you try to get past they'll knock you over or grab a good mouthful.
Another problem is that even if you choose to do the puzzles rather than combat you'll still run very low on ammo, causing you to run away from enemies rather than taking them on which, let's face it, is the whole point of having them there in the first place.
The puzzles are typical of many console games, and largely involve shifting some crates that are in your way with a crane, for example. You've got to find some cards to operate the crane, and once you have them you have to figure out how to move the blocks because the crane will only operate a certain way. The difficulty of these puzzles is set just about right: they're not overly complex, and although they're pretty easy, not one is a no-brainer. Capcom has also done a good job of balancing the puzzle-to-Dino ratio, although I suspect they could have made things busier as it can feel a tad empty in places.
There are, of course, little niggles that tend to creep in now and again. Dinosaurs can disappear once you've left the room and one of the crate-moving puzzles even resets itself.
Another problem is that in order to progress you need to make notes of what you find in journals which tell you how to solve puzzles, open doors etc.
Not a problem in itself you understand, but you end up scribbling down the most bizarre interpretation of what the book said on a scrap of paper and then have to spend ages frantically trying to dig it out once you need it. It's the only really bad piece of game design, but games kept notes for you ten years ago, and not including it is one heck of a regression.
If you can get past the silly conversion errors I still can't believe they left out an "exit" option and knew about it and the default controls, there's a decent game lying underneath. It'll only take you a good weekend to get through it but there are enough alternative routes and Easter eggs to make you come back for more. It has to be said, though, that it's getting on a bit now.
WAHID87 1 point. Stirfry 3 points. Darthcaedus 2 points. Tried all comparability modes, game starts and instantly plays opening FMV over and over, in windows 98 mode I can get past this but the screen shows nothing and while sound starts no gameplay.
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Perspectives 1st-Person, 3rd-Person. Download MB. Regardless, combine these bad boys' larger cranial capacity with their gigantic jaws and razor-sharp teeth, and you have something that's superior to a human in every way. That's scary. You won't be playing as just any human, though.
Patrick, the main character, is decked out with some crazy gadgets. Coolest of all is the jetpack, which allows you to fly in any direction. And Patrick's armed to the teeth with all sorts of futuristic heavy weaponry.
He'll automatically aim his laser rifle at any creature in his field of vision, ensuring very little wasted ammo. He has some even nastier little tricks up his sleeve, too, called Wasps. They're drones that fly out of his back to seek and destroy any enemies they can find. Think about it: flying, intelligent guns. Pretty useful, considering some of the wild environments. Speaking of which, don't think of your time inside the ship as the usual romp through access tunnels--the Ozymandius is far from your average spacecraft.
Its insides are constantly shifting, with passages opening and closing, and entire room layouts morphing as you solve puzzles or time passes.
From what we've seen so far, the game has a pretty large exploration component, so the dynamic environments could be pretty cool. In any case, we're stoked Dino 3 is diverging from the stagnant survival-horror formula. But intelligent, space-pirate dinosaurs? Exactly how far is Capcom trying to take this thing? Browse games Game Portals. Dino Crisis 3. Install Game.
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