User Rating: 4.8 | Dino Crisis 3 XBOX
I can imagine the corporate meeting... Hey...we have incredible artwork and beautiful professional cut-scenes...let's hire Bozo the drunken cinematographer to script the gameplay... Quite honestly, I wasn't looking forward to this title, but when my wife bought it for me, I eagerly sat down with it. After the first cut scenes, I thought I was in for an amazing experience. The graphics are simply beautiful. I was in for an amazing experience, but not as I expected. Character control is outrageously difficult. The camera angles are simply criminal. Dinosaurs appear out of nowhere (literally) with no warning and can (depending on the camera angle of the moment) show up with their mouths inches from your head. You run down a hallway and through a door, only to go back through the door when the camera angle does a 180 degree shift. Platform jumping is difficult, to say the least. I wish I could have played it through. I like science fiction scenarios and excellent space art. I just couldn't spend $50 on something so frustrating when I can go to work and get paid for something less frustrating or try to stack marbles on top of each other for free. I took it back. I have never seen such untapped potential. Just a little investment in testing could have revealed the flaws and allowed this to be a hit. Corporate heads should roll.