Disney's Dinosaur

"You thought they couldn't make something so crappy. You were wrong."

Oh. My. God.

This game fails. Period. The horror. The HORROR!

What they wanted to make:
A game with depth, role playing games type of character development, multiple characters to solve different puzzles, ferocious combat with many types of dinosaurs. Mixed in with clips from one of the most advanced CGI flicks made.

What they managed to make:
A game with crappy controls. The dinosaurs you control (same as in the movie, if you've seen it) all move like they're shot in every limb and knocked in the head with something extremely large and painful. The 'depth and character development' is achieved by getting more life and just about nothing else. Wow. It makes orphen look like a masterpiece and supergem. Did I mention that the characters are extremely slow? And turn just as fast as an oil tankar? You will spend a lot of your time dying because the other agile raptors attack your ugly behind. Do not buy this game.

The graphics are awful. The characters are small, and they look like something that could be done on PSX. This game actually looks like an UGLY PSX game. The level themes are mostly desert, dirt, mold, stone and grass. And fog. Lot's of it. Looks like they thought ''Hey, this fog thing is pretty neat. Let's put it everywhere, so that the players don't see anything and the game last even longer because it is challenging!''. They thought wrong. I wonder what they were inhaling.

There are a lot of puzzles in the game. Like push a rock. Hit a rock with a small rock. Drop an item. Push a rock. Hit a log with a small rock. Push a log. Drop an item. Push a rock. You'll get bored after the second level. The fighting is annoyingly difficult. The characters respond three seconds after you push the button. And the instant deaths are a diabolish pain. Whoops, stepped an inch to long to the right. Because there is no jump button. The characters jump automatically when you step close to an edge. And if they can't reach the other side, you die. It's just that you can't find this out without stepping over the edge first. My god.

The clips from the movie look good, but they are often clipped in the middle of scenes and even phrases, so you don't get a feeling of continuity. Just a lot of loading screens. This is not a good game.

IF you haven't gotten the idea yet: avoid this game at all costs. It can seriously damage your health.

Score: 1/10

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 10/16/01, Updated 10/16/01