Dino Crisis (video game)

Dino Crisis
European box art
Developer(s)	Capcom PlayStation / Windows Capcom Dreamcast Nextech
Publisher(s)	Capcom JP/NA: Capcom
Director(s)	Shinji Mikami
Producer(s)	Shinji Mikami
Artist(s)	Kazunori Tazaki Yasuyo Kondo Yuichi Akimoto
Composer(s)	Makoto Tomozawa Sayaka Fujita Akari Kaida Shun Nishigaki
Platform(s)	PlayStation, Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Network
Release	July 1, 1999 PlayStation Dreamcast Microsoft Windows PlayStation Network
Genre(s)	Action-adventure, survival horror third-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player

Dino Crisis (Japanese: ディノ クライシス, Hepburn: Dino Kuraishisu) is a 3D survival horror action game produced by Capcom, originally released in 1999 for the PlayStation and later ported to Microsoft Windows and Dreamcast in 2000. It was directed and produced by Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami, and developed by a team that would later become part of Capcom Production Studio 4.

Dino Crisis was followed by two sequels, Dino Crisis 2 and Dino Crisis 3, and a light gun-based spinoff in Capcom's Gun Survivor series, known as Dino Stalker. A Game Boy Color version of Dino Crisis was planned by UK developer M4, but the port was apparently cancelled.

Gameplay

Dino Crisis features a game system similar to the Resident Evil titles that were previously released. The player controls Regina, a member of the special forces team that is sent to investigate an isolated military facility that became infested with time-displaced dinosaurs as a result of a top-secret experiment. Because the enemies in the game are dinosaurs rather than undead creatures, Capcom promoted Dino Crisis as a "survival panic" in contrast to Resident Evil's survival horror label.

Unlike Resident Evil, which featured polygonal characters and objects superimposed over prerendered backgrounds, the main graphics in Dino Crisis are fully polygonal, although the camera follows the player from fixed angles much like in Resident Evil. The player's actions are also performed similarly to Resident Evil, with differences such as being able to aim a gun and move at the same time, while quick turning is assigned to a specific button. Other differences include tranquilizer rounds that can be used in place of live ammunition for certain weapons and the use of hemostats in order to prevent Regina's injuries from leaving a trail of blood that can be smelled by predators if her injuries are left untreated. Regina can also use several laser shutters scattered throughout the facility to prevent the dinosaurs from following her. There are also "danger events" in which the player must fend off a dinosaur attacking Regina by rapidly pressing any of the action buttons.

While key items (including weapons) can be obtained indefinitely, Regina's carrying capacity for ammo and health supplies is infinite and any leftover supplies must be stored inside "emergency boxes" if the player wishes to have room available for further supplies. Unlike the item boxes in Resident Evil, the emergency boxes in Dino Crisis can only be accessed by using a certain amount of plugs required to open it. Moreover, the player can only have access to other emergency boxes remotely if they're of the same color code (red, green or yellow).

There are many puzzles to solve in order for the player to succeed. Many of the locked doors in the facility uses a D.D.K. (digital disk key) system in the which the player must decrypt the password required to gain access by inserting a code disk and an input disk. There are also many branching points in which the player must decide in which Regina must choose between the often-contrasting advices of her comrades Gail and Rick.

Plot

Characters

• Regina (Stephanie Morgenstern) - The player's character; an intelligence and weapons expert, specializing in weapons maintenance.

• Rick (Richard Yearwood) - The third member of the team and an expert computer hacker. He believes the lives of the team are more important than the success of the mission. He carries a sniper rifle.

• Gail (Adrian Truss) - A veteran spy, and the leader of the team. He is well known for his cold demeanor. He believes that the success of the mission is more important than the lives of his team, as well as his own. He carries an assault rifle.

• Dr. Edward Kirk (Alex Karzis) - The genius behind the Third Energy Theory. He was approached by the Borginian Republic who were interested in the properties of Third Energy as a weapon, and promised him all the funding, facilities, researchers and equipment he needed. To that end, he staged his death and moved to Ibis Island, to where a Third Energy research facility had been set up for him. During the course of the game he eludes the dinosaurs as well as the player, and even kills some of his researchers to cover his tracks. He shows no remorse for the consequences of his actions, and only cares about his work.

• Tom (Bino Tautorrez) - An agent of SORT, who has infiltrated the Ibis Island facility to investigate the reports of a new type of weapon being researched. He is wounded by a Pteranodon, and later killed by a Velociraptor to save Rick.

• Cooper - The fourth member of the extraction team. He is blown off course at the start of the mission and eaten by a Tyrannosaurus. The rest of the team never learns this, and he is declared MIA.

• Pilot (Robert Tinkler) - He brings the four agents to the island in the helicopter. He is later contacted by Regina after the team finds Dr. Kirk. She orders him to scrap the original plan and pick them up immediately. However, as he is about to land to pick up Regina, Rick, and Dr. Kirk (Gail is absent when he shows up), the T-Rex attacks and destroys the helicopter, presumably killing the pilot. Because he was in the air when the team parachuted down, it is possible he saw the T-Rex kill Cooper.

• Mike A guard found dead in a control room close to the end of the game. It is presumed that he was killed by a Velociraptor or Therizinosaurus, since he had a communicator on him. After his corpse is found, he is identified by name as a surviving guard (who is later killed by the T-Rex before it gains entrance to the base along with two other guards) calls him on the communicator telling him to meet up at the watercraft they were planning to use for escape. Because of this, it is presumed he survived for a while after the dinosaurs broke in.

• Paul Baker Another researcher for Dr. Kirk. His corpse (minus his right arm) is found by Regina when she scours the base. He is identified by name on a memo on another corpse. Paul was presumably killed by a Velociraptor which then ate his arm before the team showed up, since his corpse signifies that.

• Mark Doyle A researcher for Dr. Kirk. He is badly wounded by a Velociraptor during the overrun of the base. Regina finds him in a room leaning against a desk. She asks him where Dr. Kirk is, and he claims Kirk is a fool. He gives Regina his I. D. card, then succumbs to his injuries and dies. The T-rex then smashes through the window, drags his corpse out and eats it, before fighting Regina for the first time in the game.

• Dr. Sherwood An old researcher. She is found dead in the rest station when Regina finds her. Only part of her is seen then, but other times her whole body is seen. Presumably killed by a Therizinosaurus, since there was one in the rest station

Dinosaurs

• Velociraptor - The first encountered and most recurrent adversary in the game. Referred to as 'raptors,' their physical appearance is more like that of the Deinonychus. They hunt in packs, chase the player through rooms and are sometimes seen sleeping or on other occasions playing dead. The tougher blue-backed raptors are seen in the later stages of the game.

• Tyrannosaurus - The main antagonist of the game, it is never killed directly by the player though it is fought on several occasions. It is believed that it is the same Tyrannosaurus each time and therefore may possibly be the only one on the island.

• Compsognathus - A small group-hunting scavenger encountered around the facility, they are easily killed individually, but become challenging (even frustrating) when in larger groups.

• Pteranodon - Flying reptiles that will take turns swooping down at the player, either knocking them down or picking them up to be thrown to their deaths.

• Therizinosaurus - Tough and odd-looking dinosaurs seen towards the end of the game. Ironically now known to have been herbivores, in the game they are ferocious predators that take quite a lot of damage to beat. Normally found in pairs.

• Utahraptor - The tougher blue-backed raptors seen in the later stages of the game. In the game they are called Super Raptors.

Story

The game takes place on a fictional location known as Ibis Island in the year 2009. The Secret Operation Raid Team (SORT) has sent an agent, Tom, to investigate a research facility. During the recon mission, he learns that Doctor Edward Kirk, a world-renowned scientist who was reported dead three years ago, is leading a secret weapons project within the facility. SORT sends four agents (Regina, Gail, Rick, and Cooper) to acquire Kirk and return him to custody.

They arrive onto the island via parachute. Cooper is blown off course and lands in a jungle. A Tyrannosaurus rex appears and chases him a short distance before eating him. The other three agents, unaware of his death, proceed with the mission.

Once inside the base, they discover the mutilated and partially devoured corpses of security personnel and scientists. Shortly thereafter, they discover that dinosaurs are the reason behind the bloodbath at the base. They evade and dispose of many dinosaurs. During this, they find Tom, badly injured. Rick takes him to the medical room, however a Velociraptor attacks them, and Tom sacrifices himself to kill it, saving Rick. Later, Regina and the team manage to locate Kirk and apprehend him. As they are preparing to leave via helicopter, the T-Rex returns and destroys the helicopter, forcing them to flee back into the base. Kirk escapes them during this time. After the T-Rex manages to enter the base after killing three survivors in the elevator, Regina and Rick locate keys to a watercraft, but find a vortex in the way of getting to it. Regina enters a passageway and is held up by Kirk,. He is about to kill her when the gun is shot out of his hand by Gail, and they arrest him again.

Kirk reveals that the dinosaurs were brought to their time by an experiment he was running using his Third Energy technology. A rift in space was created and a pocket of the island from their time was exchanged with the same from the past, bringing dinosaurs back into their time. Kirk then tells them that if the reactors are set to overload, the energy coming from them and the vortex should cancel each other out if they come into contact. After Regina gets the stabilizer and initializer and uses them to overload the reactors, the energy shakes the base, causing a vent to fall on Gail allowing Kirk to escape again. Regina, Gail and Rick get to the control room branching off to the waterway to escape, but Gail says they still need to get Kirk. He starts to hobble away on his gun to go after Kirk, and orders Regina and Rick to leave without him if he does not return in twenty minutes. Rick orders Regina to do something, and she is given a choice, go after Kirk with Gail or escape with Rick, and the story takes one of three endings.

Endings

There are three possible endings based on choices made by the player. Near the end of the game, the player has the option to either go after Kirk or find their way off of the island.

The first ending (chase Kirk) results in Regina and Gail capturing Kirk. As a twist, Gail reveals that the whole mission was a front and the government did not want Kirk, but instead wanted the Third Energy to use in warfare. Gail gives Regina a disk containing all the data on the Third Energy. Shortly afterward, Gail dies from injuries suffered when the vent fell on him. Regina, Rick, and Kirk, during their departure in a watercraft, battle with the T-Rex. Regina kills it using a remote explosive, and they escape.

The second ending (escape the island) results in Regina, Gail, and Rick escaping without Kirk. During the final battle, Rick fires a rocket from a watercraft. The rocket hits a fuel tank, causing a massive overload in the Third Energy generator and completely disintegrating a portion of Ibis Island in the process killing the T-Rex and all of the other dinosaurs. The three agents escape safely, but the status of Kirk is unknown.

The third ending can be achieved by choosing to leave Kirk, but actually going after him. It can also be achieved by going after Kirk, but first finding the helicopter. Regina and Gail locate Kirk in a hangar, preparing a helicopter to escape in (which becomes their only way of escape because the T-Rex destroyed the hovercraft while she chased Kirk). Regina knocks Kirk out, and informs Rick of the situation. The T-Rex chases Rick to Regina's location. Then Regina, Gail and Rick board the helicopter and flee. During their escape, Rick drops a bomb from the helicopter onto the dinosaur, killing it. All three agents get out alive with Kirk.

Soundtrack

Untitled

1. Dino Crisis
2. You Have Mail
3. Welcome to Genocide Island
4. Omen
5. Encounter
6. Place Is Deserted
7. Breakout
8. Set You at Ease
9. Entrance
10. On the Verge of Attack
11. Rushed
12. Rowdy in Ancient Ages
13. Rescue or a Mission
14. Where's the Doc?
15. Doctor Kirk?
16. Investigate the Underground
17. Murderers in the Sky
18. Where's the Survivor?
19. Wounds Are Pretty Bad...
20. Hanged and Dropped
21. Lamentation
22. Pounced
23. Lab in the Underground
24. Poisonous Gas
25. Confined
26. Make Your Choice
27. Elusive Dr. Kirk
28. To the Communication Room
29. Giant Bites
30. Get to the Heliport
31. Abandoned Hope
32. Hang in There
33. Underpass
34. Dark and Deserted
35. Heading for the Port
36. Giant Claws
37. Further Dread
38. Call from a Survivor
39. Violence
40. Distorted Space-Time Continuum
41. Find the Generator
42. Generator Located
43. Suspicious Shot
44. Glimpse
45. From the Experiment Arises Tragedy
46. What's Your Choice
47. Stabilizer and Initializer
48. Wiretap
49. Starting Up
50. There's No Turning Back
51. Overloaded
52. Faint of Breath
53. Last Selection
54. Believe
55. Port Battle
56. Explosion
57. Hidden Purpose
58. Lie Down
59. Hunter
60. Final Battle
61. At the Waterway
62. Chopper
63. Finally Captured
64. Troublesome and Ferocious
65. Burned Away
66. Reminiscent

Reception

Reception

Review scores

Publication	Score
Famitsu	(PS1) 34 / 40 (DC) 31 / 40
GameSpot	(PS1) 8.5/10 (DC) 7.1/10

Dino Crisis was a commercial success. The PlayStation version of game has sold 2.4 million copies worldwide, being listed as the 11th-best-selling Capcom game.

External links

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