Dino Crisis is a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom that was released for the Sony Playstation on July 1, 1999. It was later ported for the Sega Dreamcast and for Microsoft Windows in 2000. It was produced and directed by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami.

Set in 2009, a special forces team must find a way to survive in a secret government facility that has been infested with time-displaced dinosaurs. It features similar gameplay to the Resident Evil series and promoted by Capcom as "panic horror".

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.

Characters

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

• Gail (Alex Karzis) - A veteran spy, and the leader of the team. He is well known for his cold demeanor and seems to have a heart of stone. He carries a large heavy machine gun and his field of expertise seems to be combat. He cares a lot about his mission. He can either survive in the game or die. Non-playable.

• Rick (Richard Yearwood) - The third member of the team and an expert computer hacker. He carries a Sniper Rifle. He seems to be much more easy-going than Gail, providing most of the comic relief. He is African-American. Non-playable.

• Cooper (Robert Tinkler) - The fourth member of the extraction team. He's blown off course at the start of the mission and ends up being eaten by a T. Rex. The rest of the team never learns this, and he is declared M.I.A. He carried the only outsourcing radio on the team, and his death puts the rest of the members in a bind. Non-playable.

• Tom (Bino Tautorrez) - An agent of S.O.R.T., who has infiltrated the Ibis Island facility to investigate the reports of new-type weapons being researched. He is wounded by a dinosaur, and later dies.

• Dr. Edward Kirk (Adrian Truss) - 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 and killed most of his workers with the help of the dinos.

Dinosaurs

In order of their appearance, the dinosaurs in the game are:

• Velociraptor
• Tyrannosaurus
• Pteranodon
• Compsognathus
• Therizinosaurus
• Deinonychus (the red-white-blue raptors, AKA Super Raptors)

Third Energy

Main article: Third Energy

Third Energy is a fictional energy source in the video game series Dino Crisis. It apparently uses air as energy.

Trivia

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• Rick's statement ("This is just like that movie") is referring to the 1993 film, Jurassic Park.
• Regina appears as a playable character in the Namco x Capcom video game. In the game she teams up with Bruce McGivern from Resident Evil: Dead Aim. In addition many of the dinosaurs from Dino Crisis also appear as enemies/bosses in the game.
• One of the secret costumes in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is Regina's outfit.

External links

• Official Japanese Website
• Dino Crisis at Game Rankings

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