Dino Crisis 3

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Dino Crisis 3 is the third game in the Dino Crisis series, and this time, it's futuristic.

The year is 2548. The colonist spaceship Ozymandias, which disappeared over 300 years ago, suddenly reappears, with no warning or reason to it's disappearance. Attempting to contact the ship results in nothing. The Interstellar Fleet Commander sends out the Special Operations and Reconnaissance (SOAR) squadron to investigate. Their shuttle is destroyed by a merciless and unknown assailant. Everyone manages to survive, and reach the ship intact. What they encounter is something they never would've thought of.

As Patrick, the leader of SOAR, you are tasked with exploring the ship, putting the pieces together, and rescuing any survivors you can find. The ship you are on, the Ozymandias, is a dynamically changing structure, which enables you to move hallways and re-position doors so that you can access new areas all the time.

During your search, you'll have to battle a number of various dinosaurs, from Raptors to the terrible Tyrannosauras Rex. Luckily, you have a variety of weapons at your disposal, from standard firearms and shotguns to sophisticated laser and beam-guided rifles. You may also find and use Wasps; little robotic bee-shaped critters that can attack enemies or open doors and other devices.

To aid you, you are equipped with a jetpack that you can use at any time to hover or speed through areas. It may also be used when in a tense firefight, taking the battle to the air. Many dodging and evading techniques are possible with the use of the jetpack.

Like the second game, Dino Crisis 2, you are awarded points for every dinosaur you kill. Kill some in rapid succession, you'll earn more points and double them as well. With enough points, you can buy new weapons, ammo, and health items at various terminal stations scattered throughout the ship.

With the aid of three of your best crew, find the survivors, figure out what the hell happened, and most importantly, get off the ship before you become dino dinner.

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Average score: 49% (based on 27 ratings)

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Average score: 2.7 out of 5 (based on 10 ratings with 2 reviews)

Capcom Strikes Back

The Good
|personal opinion - what I like about this game|
I was impressed by the level of details in Dino Crisis 2 already, but this one takes all the cake pieces. Not only is the graphic so top-notch and high-poly (if it ain't, believe me, you won't notice so it doesn't matter), but you can switch to first-person view similar in MGS2 (which means, you cannot walk in first-person mode, shoot, of course, you can try) to see all the details you may otherwise miss. And the textures are really clear. May be the fact there isn't much open space, but then again, in which horror-survival game is it? Game takes place both indoors and outdoors and space textures are quite alright to boost up the feeling you're nowhere near the solid ground. The game's speed is astonishing, and be this 3D, it still looks amazing and just proves that japanese developers can easily conquer a foreign console just as easily. Battles are quite fun yet not too hard with the right reflexes ability. Carefully designed plan gives you only a handful of different enemy types, no more than you will fight different bosses, which present innovative and intriguing challenge. As a fan of cinematics, I can assure you there's plenty of those in this game, almost to be able to compete with MGS2, and some of them are quite neat and dynamic, achieving the feeling you're watching a sci-fi movie with some ability to interact. Physics in this game are nice and extras such as zero gravity levels and jet pack are quite neat touches.

Overall opinion: 0/1/2/3/4/(5) stars.

The Bad
|personal opinion - what I don't like about this game|
The final boss battle does feel very out of place. No matter the experiments and such, but seeing an alien dino that can function in vacuum really makes no sense at all. It was quite expectable to battle that one in the end, but still, it ruined what could've been a truly terrific experience.

The Bottom Line
|general opinion - what other players can expect to find in this game|
It's a horror-survival and it comes from Capcom. The third in the Dino Crisis saga, this time we don't follow the story of Regina (alas), and the game is set onboard a long-lost ghost ship that is heading towards Earth. Your task - stopping it by any means necessary. Due to proceeding further, you'll encounter various logs and notes that will explain you whatever has happened onboard the ship, and what are all those dinos doing onboard this ship. With feeling like in action movie on a level of Aliens, you will get ahold of controls that will be almost as fast as those in DMC, which means - more action stunts, really quick thinking and most attention to reflexes when the battle takes place. Technically, this game doesn't have more action than Dino Crisis 2, but nothing less either, so whoever enjoyed the prequel and owns an Xbox has no restrictions to try this game out.

The game features:

  • on the fly switchable 1st/3rd-person perspective (inability to walk in first-person view, though)
  • shiny looking graphic with high level of details (don't count on proper looking character shadows, though)
  • lots of action and fast-responding controls for a horror-survival game, getting very close to DMC
  • handful of cinematics extending the story and creating a theatrical feeling (really lots of cinematics)
  • only a few different enemies, and a few bosses that you will most likely have to fight twice each
  • ambient suspense music during gameplay and orchestral symphony during ship-formation cutscenes
  • Xbox · by MAT (240759) · 2012

    More than a worthy successor.

    The Good
    Dino Crisis 3 is a large improvement over the first two games from the series. The graphical detail is stunning. The resemblance of the interior of a huge spaceship is nearly perfect, the shining metal look adds a lot of "realism" to the sci-fi setting. And the dinosaurs are as neatly modeled as ever, only now they are up to Xbox standards. The game offers some variety of Boss reptiles, even though the number of regular foes is rather low. Thankfully, Capcom was able to keep up the standard of the in-game graphics with the cutscenes. Although the story is a mixture of your rather cliche science fiction horror flick - in fact, Dino Crisis 3 can be best described as "Event Horizon with Dinosaurs" - it is carried by some excellent CGI. Since the musical score captures the tension and drama of the game pretty well, the overall presentation can be described as most immersing. Control over your character comes easy and intuitive, and the jet-pack every character carries with him or her gave the designers room to build in a number of platform-style puzzles. They aren't overly difficult, but they widen your range of actions over Dino Crisis 3's predecessors. It also gave the designers a way to create larger environments such as you would expect to find on a huge starship.

    The Bad
    Most reviews complained about the less-than-optimal camera system, which isn't exactly far from the truth. Since the game puts you in a number of rather extensive environments, the camera now constantly turns as you move around, which leads to some rather unfortunate camera positions. However, as mediocre as it may be, it is not unusable. There are spots were you might lose your sense of orientation, but at the end of the day, it won't compromise the general experience. What might disappoint you is that apart from it's well-done presentation and gameplay, Dino Crisis 3 is hardly a novelty. If you don't have a liking for this kind of games or science fiction in general, there may be little in it you will particularly enjoy.

    The Bottom Line
    The bottom line is, Dino Crisis 3 is a great addition to the series and offers a lot of easily accessible hours of fun, including a tense atmosphere and a cool setting.

    Xbox · by G'Kyl (50) · 2004

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    Game added September 18, 2003. Last modified February 14, 2024.