I'll admit I'm not much of a gamer, but of the limited number of console games I have played, this is probably the worst. I enjoyed the movie, but how exactly does one make a video game out of Disney's Dinosaur? The answer is not very well.
I'm hard pressed to find anything likable or with any semblance of quality. The graphics are awful even for its time, and the clips from the actual movie they show make the graphics look that much worse by comparison. The background songs are these annoying electronic tracks that make me yearn for James Newton Howard's score from the film. The controls are awkward, the level objectives make no sense, some of the foes are annoyingly hard to beat, and above all else the gameplay in general is just dull and boring. This may be a personal gripe, but I hate games where you can't move the camera. There are bonus features that show basic facts about the dinosaurs featured in the game. Some list lengths in feet and others in meters, and some of the information is flat out wrong. For example, it says Carnotaurus first appeared 200 million years ago. I guess technically the evolutionary lineage could go back 200 million years, but this is very misleading as Carnotaurus itself didn't appear until the mid-to-late Cretaceous. On top of all that, the game is incredibly short. If you know what to do, you can beat it in less than an hour. The only positive I can think of is the voice acting isn't bad, and even then the dialogue can be really annoying at times with "woohoo!"s and "ready to go!"s. These poor actors are simply doing the best with the material they're given.
Unless you played this as a child and want to revisit it for nostalgia, I see no reason to seriously recommend this game to anyone.
I'm hard pressed to find anything likable or with any semblance of quality. The graphics are awful even for its time, and the clips from the actual movie they show make the graphics look that much worse by comparison. The background songs are these annoying electronic tracks that make me yearn for James Newton Howard's score from the film. The controls are awkward, the level objectives make no sense, some of the foes are annoyingly hard to beat, and above all else the gameplay in general is just dull and boring. This may be a personal gripe, but I hate games where you can't move the camera. There are bonus features that show basic facts about the dinosaurs featured in the game. Some list lengths in feet and others in meters, and some of the information is flat out wrong. For example, it says Carnotaurus first appeared 200 million years ago. I guess technically the evolutionary lineage could go back 200 million years, but this is very misleading as Carnotaurus itself didn't appear until the mid-to-late Cretaceous. On top of all that, the game is incredibly short. If you know what to do, you can beat it in less than an hour. The only positive I can think of is the voice acting isn't bad, and even then the dialogue can be really annoying at times with "woohoo!"s and "ready to go!"s. These poor actors are simply doing the best with the material they're given.
Unless you played this as a child and want to revisit it for nostalgia, I see no reason to seriously recommend this game to anyone.
