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|  | Dino Crisis 2 |  | Genre | Survival Horror | Developer / Publisher | Capcom | Released | 2000 | Media | 1 x  | Rating
 | Graphics: | 9.0 | Sound: | 9.0 | Gameplay: | 9.0 | Overall: | 9.0 |
| Reviewed by | P.Dial | Dino Crisis 2 is the sequel survival horror to the first game developed and published by Capcom for the PSOne and PC in 2000 |
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 The story follows the ending of the 1st Dino Crisis. Scientists still continued to make researches upon the Third Energy project causing -again- destruction and death to a small island and a nearby town. Government decided to send a military team back in time (by using a sort of a Time-Machine), to find out what went wrong and recover the secret data from the laboratories. The whole team was mutilated by various dinosaurs wandering around the abandoned island and the only survivors left alive are the Special Agents Regina and Dylan. In this game, you can control either Regina or Dylan depending on the quest you have to accomplish. Both of them carry a variety of weapons and have different abilities. For example, Dylan is physically stronger and can move a heavy obstacle. During the game, your arsenal is always improving with machine guns, grenades, flame thrower etc, that ypu can use against the prehistoric monsters. Sometimes you may need to solve puzzles in order to proceed with your survival and thus return back in your time. But you must be careful since there are many kinds of dinosaurs unleashed to this island as a result of the Project. You'll have to confront either small animals, such as raptors, or even the deadly T-Rex. Apart from heavy weapons, strategy is of great importance, in order to stay alive after being attacked. When attacked and hurt you must take care of yourself and stop the bleeding, otherwise you're dead. There are several health items to be used which can be purchased (along with other goodies) from specific spots around the levels by using the XP points you collect. The XP ppoints are collected through killing the dinos. The talented creators of the Resident Evil series have managed once more to astonish the crowds with the graphics used on the Dino Crisis games. DC2 is plain art! It features pre-rendered backgrounds, almost lifelike dinos and very well developed characters, explosions and fantastic animations. Sound FX and in-game music are absolutely awesome and add a lot to the atmosphere. Dino Crisis 2 is a game that can really scare you since this time you fight against some agile and bloodthirsty creatures instead of the fairly weak and slow-moving zombies. | |
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Hardware information |
| Playstation (PSOne) CPU: MIPS R3000A-family R3051 @ 33.8688 MHz MEMORY: 2MB of main RAM, 1MB Video RAM, 512KB Sound RAM GRAPHICS: Handled by CPU, Maximum of 16.7 million colors (24-bit color depth), Resolutions from 256x224 to 640x480, Unlimited color lookup tables, Maximum of 4000 8x8 pixel sprites with individual scaling and rotation, # Flat or Gouraud shading, and texture mapping, Emulation of simultaneous backgrounds (for parallax scrolling) SOUND: ADPCM sources with up to 24 channels and up to 44.1 kHz sampling rate
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 | 24bit RGB 16,7 million-color palette (all on screen) | |
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Comments |
|  | comment on 2010-04-26 13:24:43 | Freddy | Join Date: 2009-09-07 | Excellent game, impressive graphics and sound! One of the best games I've seen on Playstation! By the way, have you seen Dino Crisis 3 on XBOX? | |
 | comment on 2010-04-26 14:01:25 | Atarian75 | Join Date: 2009-08-30 | a great game this one! it scared the shit out of me!
@Freddy: unfortunately my friend, No3 was a crap, with bad camera and a ...sci-fi feeling! I have it on my XBOX and it sucks! | |
 | comment on 2010-04-26 14:44:11 | Freddy | Join Date: 2009-09-07 | Well I liked no3 on XBOX. Problematic camera it is; but any game of this kind had similar problem | |
 | comment on 2010-06-01 21:23:13 | Wonderboy | Join Date: 2009-09-12 | Dino Crisis 3 on XBOX, although good graphics, the rest of the game was a total crap! Auful story and gameplay. Dino Crisis 2 better by far! | |
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