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Best Dinosaur Games

• Dinosaur Games For Pc
• Nanosaur

What are Dinosaur Games? A dinosaur game is any game with a dinosaur theme. Most dinosaur games focus on meat-eating dinosaurs like the Spinosaurus and Tyrannosaurus. There are dinosaur games with destructive themes and dinosaur games for kids with more light-hearted and playful themes. T-Rex Dinosaur - a replica of the hidden game from Chrome offline mode. Press Space to start the game online and jump your Dino, use down arrow (↓) to duck.

Dinosaurs! Everyone loves the scaly beasts! Or are they even scaley? I can barely keep up with that particular part of canon anymore. Brontosaurus never existed, all my favorite dinosaurs actually looked a whole lot different, tyrannosaurus rex was ate carrion and didn’t hunt – or did he?

Anyway, we are gathered here tonight to celebrate video games that feature dinosaurs. Those beloved ancient beasts, staple food of any healthy boy’s diet. Or girl’s diet. Not that love for dinosaurs would be gender specific. Dinosaurs are a huge thing in popculture, so obviously they are a huge thing in gaming too.

Over the years, there have been a ton of games in which our lizardy friends had one or another role to play. There was Wonderboy in the 80s, Mario had the most famous of gaming dinosaurs ever (who even had his own game), but we’re focusing on the real deal here. Big beasts being big and stompy.

Kids (of all ages) love dinosaurs. As friends, as adversaries, as beasts of burden. Show me someone who doesn’t. If you grew up in the 80s or 90s, you were subjected to a ton of dinosaur stuff, read Jurassic Park after seeing the movie and didn’t really get what it was all about until years later. You watched a ton of TV series that featured dinosaurs. Dino Riders! Extreme Dinosaurs! So obviously you will have had a lot of love for video games feature them too. So let’s celebrate a fine selection of the best games featuring the best of extinct animals!

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Dauntless

Dinosaur Games For Pc

• Developer: Phoenix Labs
• Publisher: Epic Games
• Platforms: PC, PS4, XBO, NS

Dauntless is a great game for those that enjoy the Monster Hunter franchise. It’s essentially a free-to-play Monster Hunter game that acts as a great jumping point for players that may have felt Monster Hunter was a bit too complex. After all, each installment to Monster Hunter seemed to have boost the complexity level which made the game difficult for newcomers to fully grasp at times. With Dauntless, players are tasked with forming parties and joining in on hunts. With massive monsters and dinosaur-like creatures roaming the open, hunters are not only in for a fierce and tough fight but one that will reward generously with all sorts of loot. With this loot, players can craft new armor and buff their stats when having to face other types of monsters. In fact, some battles can be quite lengthy as you’ll need to not only monitor your vitals but to keep track of the moves a monster makes.

LEGO: Jurassic World

• Developer: TT Fusion
• Publisher: Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
• Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, 360, XBO, NS

The game got mixed reviews thanks to some bugginess, poor audio patching from the original films, and frustrating Compsognathus battles. But it did allow you later on to play as a dinosaur character, making it at least worth a mention. Because playable dinosaurs. Playable. Dinosaurs. LEGO: Jurassic World will not go down as the best of the Jurassic Park franchise video game tie-ins but it will still be among the most memorable.

ARK: Survival Evolved

• Developer: Studio Wildcard, Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, Virtual Basement
• Publisher: Studio Wildcard
• Platforms: PC, PS4, XBO

In this survival title, players fend for themselves on a mysterious island and tend to their basic needs while learning to hunt and tame dinosaurs. It also allows you to ride them, turning you basically into a pre-history Mario on a giant Yoshi. Currently in Early Access, ARK: Survival Evolved has a lot of positive pre-release buzz.

Off-road Velociraptor Safari

• Developer: Flashbang Studios
• Publisher: Flashbang Studios
• Platforms: PC

One of the few games, maybe even the only one, on this list to get dinosaurs right, a game where velociraptors look more like they probably really looked, and not like they looked in Jurassic Park. Meaning, these velociraptors sport some wicked plumage.

This here was a free little indie game, where the player was cast as a sentient velociraptor who got into a jeep to run down other, fellow velociraptors in a jungle. That’s pretty much all there is to it, but the dinosaurs feature so prominently in this one, this list wouldn’t be complete without it.

Jurassic Park: Trespasser

• Developer: Dreamworks Interactive
• Publisher: Electronic Arts
• Platforms: PC

Oh, Trespasser. You could have been the game to end all games, instead you ended up being a pile of rubbish. This overly ambitious project set out to revolutionize user interfaces for first person perspectives, but failed miserably by making things just too complicated. Plus, the game was so hardware hungry, it put Origin games (“Games from today for the computer of tomorrow!”) to shame.

Riding on the success of the first two Jurassic Park movies, this game was supposed to tie in with The Lost World – Jurassic Park 2. However, development hell struck, and what was supposed to be one of the biggest, most innovative games of the decade turned out to be a major dud, credited by a lot of contemporary critics as the biggest disappointment of the year.

Nanosaur

Nanosaur is a science fictionthird person shootervideo game developed by Pangea Software and published by Ideas From the Deep for Mac OS 9 and Microsoft Windows. The player takes on the form of a Nanosaur, a genetically engineered intelligent dinosaur from the future, sent back in time just prior to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

Story[edit]

In the distant year of 4122, a dinosaur species, Nanosaurs, rule the Earth. Their civilization originated from a group of human scientists who experimented with genetic engineering. Their experimentation led them to resurrect the extinct dinosaur species; however, their victory was short lived, as a disastrous plague brought the end of their civilization itself. The few dinosaurs resurrected were lent an unusual amount of intelligence from their human creators, leaving them to expand on their growing civilization. However, as the Nanosaurs were the only species on Earth, inbreeding was the only possible choice of reproduction. This method largely affected the intelligence of the various offspring, and slowly began to pose a threat to their once-intelligent society.

The Nanosaur government offers a quest that involves time traveling into the year 65 million BC, where the five eggs of ancient dinosaur species must be retrieved and placed in a time portal leading to the present year. Their high-ranking agent, a brown Deinonychus Nanosaur, is chosen to participate in this mission. On the day of her mission, she is teleported to the past via a time machine in a Nanosaur laboratory.

The Nanosaur arrives in a lush jungle, with twenty minutes given to collect the eggs before the meteor that caused the initial extinction of the dinosaur race hits the Earth. After battling various Tyrannosaurus rex's, the Nanosaur enters a volcanic crater, where she must cross several stone formations in a river of lava in order to retrieve the eggs. After making her way across the river, the Nanosaur detects the final eggs in a canyonoasis, where various dinosaurs, namely Dilophosaurus and Stegosaurus, are attempting to hinder her progress in order to protect their eggs. After evading defeat, the Nanosaur beams the final egg into the time portal, and is carried along with it back to the present.

Following the completion of the Nanosaur's mission, the eggs are placed in nationwide laboratories, where the scientists intend on breeding them for their own purposes. Several months following this event, the eggs finally start to hatch.

Gameplay[edit]

The object of the game is to collect the eggs of five dinosaur and flying reptile species and deposit them in time portals to the future in twenty minutes; at the end of the countdown, the asteroid that caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event hits Earth. The Nanosaur is equipped with a 'fusion blaster' (a basic multi-purpose energy weapon), a jet pack allowing flight, a temporal compass for locating time portals, and a GPS locator for navigation.

The native animals will attack the Nanosaur when their eggs are threatened; species encountered include Tyrannosaurus rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Dilophosaurus (who spits venom as in Jurassic Park), and the flying reptile Pteranodon. As well as hostile creatures, the Nanosaur must also avoid water and lava, environmental hazards which slow the player down (or kill it).

Legacy[edit]

The game was being ported to Linux by Three Axis Interactive, but the port was never completed.^[2] Around 2003 the source code of the game was made available by the developer under a restrictive license.^[3]

Nanosaur Extreme is another version of Nanosaur, released at a later time with heftier system requirements. It has many more enemies and weapons than Nanosaur, and it is described on the Nanosaur downloads page as 'what Nanosaur was meant to be - a total kill-fest'.

Nanosaur 2: Hatchling, a continuation of the original Nanosaur storyline, was released in March 2004 Nanosaur 2 is the first stereoscopic game released for the Mac.^[4]

References[edit]

1. ^Nanosaur v1.0.8 Instructions (Game manual). 1998.
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3. ^nanosource on pangeasoft.net
4. ^'Inside Mac Games Preview: Nanosaur 2: Hatchling'. Insidemacgames.com. Retrieved 2014-05-09.

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