10 Obvious Video Game Remakes The Industry Is Ignoring

5. Dino Crisis 1 & 2

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Because Dino Crisis could've easily been a bare-bones copy of Resident Evil, it's impressive how well the first two instalments turned out.

Not only was the original a lot of fun, it was more clever than you'd think, focusing more on puzzles than blasting reptiles heads off. The player was given limited weapons and ammo, compelling them to be more tactical to avoid ending up in the stomach of a therizinosaurus.

Instead of Dino Crisis 2 giving us more of the same, the action-oriented sequel had the player blasting at every prehistoric beast imaginable, including tyrannosauruses, velociraptors, and pteranodons. (Pteranodons aren't technically dinosaurs, but they're still cool.) Dino Crisis 2 also achieved the impossible and managed to craft an underwater sequence... that's actually enjoyable! Even Mario struggles to pull that off.

Things were going so well, it looked like Dino Crisis would become a staple in the survivor horror genre. But after Dino Crisis 3 tanked, the franchise was rendered extinct.

But after the Jurassic World films were released, everyone went a bit dino-crazy again. And since the Jurassic tie-in titles make a truckload of money, who wouldn't want to see Dino Crisis be brought back to life?

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