Primal Rage it is not. – Dino Fight 3D – Pair Your Favorite Dinosaurs For Battle! Review

I thought this might be like Primal Rage - that Dino Fighter that won Game of the Year in 1996 (if I remember correctly), though it was an Arcade Game ported to the PS1, Genesis, Game Gear, Game Boy, and probably a few more. It is nothing like Primal Rage, but that is not why I find this particular title greatly wanting. The controls here are very, very bad - at first I thought they were not working at all, but it just turned out that they are delayed. If you move 'UP' does your Dino jump; if you Tail-swip, does your Dino strike with its tail? Yes, after a second goes by... This game could be acceptable, and worth the price if the controls instantly responded like every other game on the planet does. The game is otherwise far from great, but - as I said - acceptable, though rather unremarkable. If you win, the defeated Dino simply falls over, with poor visuals ever in attendance. If you win once (I don't know about losing; I only played through one game (but was in practice mode for a while, trying to figure out the deal with the controls - conclusion? They're broken)). The graphics here are poor, but - again - would not be unacceptable if the controls worked as they should. I say this even though, say, a bite attack that lands merely shows red sprinkles no reaction on the target, but that might be OK because the attacks don't appear to land, anyway; the poor graphics just depict a poorly-landed snip punctuated with disappearing red dotes. I will keep the game just until the next update in hopes that the developers will provide an update that fixes the controls (and fine-tuning the graphics would certainly be welcome, too) once they fire the programmer that was drinking on the job when the controls were integrated into this app, and release something that works.
Review by I eat flies on Dino Fight 3D – Pair Your Favorite Dinosaurs For Battle!.