Maybe it's just a lifetime of playing games like this that leaves us a bit flat on the experience, but your mileage may vary depending on your love for retro experiences. This shows up in the controls and in some core aspects of the gameplay. To be sure, Dinocide takes us back to the days when games were harder and much less forgiving. Once we get past acknowledging that it looks and sounds great, there's the matter of playability. There are also some nods to beloved games of the period, which makes for great fan service.įor the audience old enough to have played games like this in their original context, Dinocide has to first pass the nostalgia test, which it clearly does in style. It's especially fun to see dinosaurs designed in this minimal style, versus the Turok treatment most of our hardware can support these days.

Dinocide truly does look like a throwback, like something that sprung virtually unchanged from a living room 30+ years ago.Ī sure sign of how dedicated the dev team was in making this feel authentically retro is the fact that everything from the initial menu to the closing screen is 'in character.' Sure, it's a modern wrapper around a revival title, but the sound and visuals could easily be drawn directly from NES or similar system libraries. Happily, graphics aren't one of those issues.

If you're in that crowd, you can likely stop reading now and go play the darn thing, but if you're on the fence, we'll say that there are some flaws that kept us from feeling the '80s revival.

Dinocide is made for the retro gamers among us who miss the days of 8- and 16-bit titles.

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