1 July 2009
Josh

Dino Crisis 4 missing as series celebrates 10th anniversary

Dino Crisis 4 has never been announced by Capcom as we enter into the 10th birthday of the original Dino Crisis, which was released for the PlayStation One way back on July 1st, 1999 (in Japan).

Cashing in on the “survival horror” king, the Resident Evil series, Dino Crisis sought to differentiate itself from that titan of gaming by taking the same horror formula (down to “door opening sequences”, complex puzzles, a fixed camera perspective and key finding fetch quests) that worked there and adding . . . YOU GUESSED IT! Dinosaurs! Everything is better when you add dinosaurs right? RIGHT?!

The sad fact is that Dino Crisis wasn’t necessarily a bad game. And if it was remade now it would be an AWESOME game (see the picture above. Now picture it in HD). However it was literally Resident Evil 3: Nemesis with dinosaurs. Which became less appealing when you added new, unfamiliar characters and the same style of voice-acting from that era (i.e. the voice acting sucks). However dinosaurs were a big enough difference back in the late 90’s to make an impact, and the game sold over 2.4 million copies. Making it a 32-bit hit for Capcom.

Dino Crisis 2 actually took that similarity to heart by fundamentally changing the game into a shooter . . . although it used the same gameplay formula as all survival horror games of the time, the focus was now on shooting and action instead puzzles. Swarms of dinosaurs would come at you and you would earn points (yes, points) for the more kills and “combos” you performed. I never played the game but it got great reviews in the pages of EGM and other mags at the time.

Then came the Xbox-exclusive Dino Crisis 3 . . . We shall refrain from speaking of that shameful retail and critical bomb. You can find information on it on the Internet. Somewhere else.

I’ll just say this. Dino Crisis 3 to the Dino Crisis franchise what Jason X is to Friday the 13th. Dinosaurs. Cybernetic dinosaurs. In space. Apparently someone thought that would be a good idea. And then they were probably fired.

Sadly I was never able to complete the original Dino Crisis despite being a fan of the game. All because of that DAMN PIPE PUZZLE!!!!!!!!! Of course, this is 2009, so maybe I should replay the game. I’m sure youtube could finally help me solve it.

Now let’s hope that Capcom re-releases the first two Dino Crisis games on the PlayStation Network to celebrate the franchise’s anniversary! This in fact may indeed happen as Capcom will be releasing classic PS1 titles on the PlayStation Network in the USA, and Dino Crisis’ name has already been brought up!

Here is a video of Dino Crisis 1. Skip the first 45-seconds of item management to see the good parts.

Dino Crisis 2 in action.

. . . . Dino Crisis 3.

Okay to be completely fair, I never played Dino Crisis 3 . . . just read about how bad it was.

So would you like to see a revival of the Dino Crisis series? What about re-releases of the games on PSN?

1 July 2009 11:04
JQ

CAPCOM! Hurry up and releace Dino Crisis 4, and it better be MORE awsome then Dino Crisis 3, which was without doubt the best in series. JQ

1 July 2009 16:20
Ferry

I agree JQ, I desperately need a next-gen dinosaurs game. It’s been ages since they made a good game from the Jurassic Park movies too.

2 July 2009 00:49
astrotriforce

Same here, I’d love to see a Dino Crisis 4. Heck I’d even be fine with a straight up remake of the first Dino Crisis, similar to what they did with Resident Evil remake on GameCube. And I agree with Ferry, we need more next-gen dinosaur games!

8 September 2009 17:50
dakota craig bownes

sorry to say but it does say on multiple things that the 3rd was the final one

i loved the first 1 never got to play the 2nd one but 3rd one screw that 4th one would be tight it would fix the bad name they got from the 3rd one

so peace and i pray someday they make a dino crisis 4

27 September 2009 00:22
hussain

i played dino crisis 1 and 2 and i was hving good time i want to see dino crisis 4 only in the ps3

4 October 2009 20:54
wesker

i played dc1,2,ds and the shity dc3 on xbox which ruined the series but i’d love to see a remake of the dc1 for the ps3 or a brand new dc that goes back to it’s original roots from late 90’s

13 October 2009 14:29
diharbinger

i don’t have much comment
since i only played dino crisis 2 and 3, but i have to say that dino crisis2 is an awsome game and better than 3.
I would love to have it that dino crisis 4 be more like 2 .
I like space games (traveling in space and other worlds games). but the mix between space and dino’s did not work for me, i prefer solid land, rivers, etc.
well that’s all, not much off a coment huh!