What Capcom's Exoprimal Has in Common With Dino Crisis
The latest PlayStation State of Play was brief, but it was packed with announcements. Square Enix unveiled a variety of new titles, while other developers like Housemarque provided updates on their own games, but out of everything that appeared at the State of Play, Exoprimal was possibly one of the most remarkable. Revealed at the very start of the State of Play, Exoprimal is a new action game from Capcom in which players don mech suits to battle huge tides of dinosaurs that are rampaging through the game's near-future world after falling from mysterious portals in the sky.
Longtime Capcom fans watching the Exoprimal reveal trailer may have drawn a comparison to another Capcom IP: Dino Crisis. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Capcom's survival horror and action-adventure series Dino Crisis pitted players against dinosaurs pulled into the modern-day through time travel. Although the franchise has laid dormant for many years, Dino Crisis has managed to retain a following, and many have hoped that Capcom will return to the IP someday. Exoprimal is clearly a new IP, but it has some commonalities with Dino Crisis that ought to get fans of Capcom's previous franchise interested in the new game.
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The most obvious connection between Exoprimal and Dino Crisis is, of course, the use of dinosaurs as basic enemies. In Exoprimal, players will fight off massive hordes of raptors and seemingly engage in boss battles with particularly large prehistoric creatures. The Dino Crisis series hasn't always been quite so action-oriented, but Exoprimal still has some similarities with Dino Crisis 3, which left the franchise's survival horror roots behind in favor of persistent futuristic
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