Exoprimal Shows How Much Potential a New Dino Crisis Game Would Have
For its latest State of Play event, Sony opened up by showcasing a new IP coming to PS4 and PS5 from Capcom, and it curiously evoked the Japanese publisher’s past. Between elements like the presence of mysterious portals, a red-headed female hero, and jetpacks, the newly announced Exoprimal looks a lot like Dino Crisis. The comparisons between the two dinosaur-themed games were so on the nose that many onlookers were sure that the two were one and the same until the game’s actual title flashed across the screen.
Over the last few years, voices calling for Capcom to resurrect its iconic survival horror franchise have grown increasingly louder. Between the recent commercially successful return of dinosaurs on the big screen and the publisher’s various Resident Evil remakes, there’s been a growing sense that Dino Crisis’ time in the spotlight should come again. Despite this, Capcom is yet to give any official confirmation that a new project is being worked on behind the scenes. Exoprimal demonstrates efficiently why a new Dino Crisis game would work remarkably well.
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While there are some clear parallels between Capcom’s classic franchise and Exoprimal, the upcoming game doesn’t appear to have much in common with what Dino Crisis was originally built to be when it comes to gameplay design philosophies. On paper, Exoprimal is seemingly more in line with Bungie’s Destiny and BioWare’s ill-fated Anthem. Despite the increased adoption of more action-centric mechanics in later installments, Dino Crisis was conceived as a survival horror experience. Even though later games departed from the pure horror aspect of that design, it can be argued that surviving against hordes of
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