Dino Crisis 2

This game has far less of the exploration that dominated the beginning of the first game and far more Velociraptor. With two difficulty settings (Normal and Hard) I chose the default level of normal. On this setting the Raptors are pretty easy, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Usually in survival horror games the enemies are far more maneuverable than you and conflict is to be avoided, it was nice to have the tables turned for once. The raptors had excellent attacks to be sure, they could bite, they could leap through the air slashing with their foot claws, they could pin you to the ground briefly biting at you, and they could even smack you with their tails, but they never got a chance to do any of this if you struck first and then stabbed them in the belly repeatedly when they were on the ground. They would often attack in pairs or troikas but often made the mistake of attacking side by side. One mighty slash of my combat knife would knock them both to the ground and then it was belly stabbings all around. Occasionally one would get behind me and leap through the air claws swinging, at this point I would tap the quick turn around button and run toward him, we would land where I had formerly been and I would be standing behind him stabbing him in the spine.
By the time encountered the T-Rex that had gotten one of his eyes blown out by a rocket launcher in the opening cut scene I was loath to use anything other than my knife. Sure I had started out with a gun too, but I had managed to kill 49 raptors without it and I would be damned if I was going to start using it now. I don't know if it is impossible to kill the T-Rex with the knife or if it just takes an LOT of slashes, which is fair, but ultimately I slipped up in my running between his legs and slashing technique and it was the end of me.

Game play video

In a five star ranking system
I give this game 4