Dreamcast

Disney's Dinosaur

Once again, the main reason for the existence of Dinosaur is to appeal to fans of the movie. Should any fans purchase this game, they'll be happy to know that the game displays a lot of the great CG sequences from the film. Additionally, the game sports an encyclopedia that allows you to receive more information about the creatures that appear in the game. But if I wanted to read about dinosaurs, I would go to the library... if I want to see the gorgeous CG of the movie, I would go to my neighborhood video store... and if I want to play a real video game, I'll avoid Dinosaur.

Movie games, by far, are the low end of the suckage totem pole. It's a good thing then, that Dinosaur from Disney Interactive has taken a brave break from the movie-based platformer/beat 'em up mold and manages to push hard at the limits of mediocrity to almost enter the realm of what would like to call "good clean fun."

Dinosaur was a game with potential when it came out on the PlayStation, but it seems that in the porting process, little effort was spent trying to repair its flaws. Thus we have a prettier version of the same game that came out in late 2000, and though it has a few extra features like higher-quality full-motion video and an improved "dinosaur encyclopedia," it's really just an average game that you'd do well to pass up.