A game that had potential if the game's AI wasn't so horrid. OFFICIAL REVIEW
Gameplay: As a human, you start out with 3 weapons, a pistol, and the others you get to chose. The sad part is there are only 7 weapons. What they have is at least good.
The Bad: In the first level, they will try to tell you to walk instead of run. This is simply an attempt to hide the fact that most of the dinos top speed is slower than the humans top speed. This makes the game tremendously easy and it becomes boring. The dinos attack you the same way, all you have to do is hold 'S', and blast away at the trigger, which I might add that there is no damage weapoints (headshots are the same as bodyshots.) Ignoring this, the game has an impressive amount of gore for its time and occasionally will scary the living .... out of you.
The game has many glitches from a gameplay standpoint, as well as many large holes in the storyline. For example, in this one level, Norton's Nightmare, for the first tries it seems friggishly hard. Then you discover if you jump on a certain block, the terrible AI will try and slash you, but to no avail. Then they will fall off the platform, thus commiting suicide. Stuff like this happens all the time in Carnivores Cityscape.
As a dino, the first time around, the game is near impossible. But after you beat it, for some strange reason it doesn't seem to be as hard as it was. But you'll still use strategy and your cunning instict. But sometimes the humans will get boring because they all look the same.
Overall, this game could have been a HALO. But the lack of assortment of weapons, the lack of differnet dinos, and the terrible AI and lack of location damage (and lack of variable dino death animations) bring this game down.
Graphics-Very good for its time, if I'm not mistaken. If my memory serves me well, mostly better than most videogame graphics. The level design is pleasing to the eye, for the most part.
Sound-Although repetive, the dino sounds will usually scare the .... out of you. The weapons sound good, the enviros sound good, even the occasional music sounds good! No reason not to give it a 10.
Value-Although I was 12 when I first played the game, an adult might get a little scare from it. If you are hardcore, you might want to get this game to see what NOT to do when making a game. If you're a game designer you might want it to see what you SHOULD do when creating one. Overall, worth the $5 i paid and didn't try the multiplayer, although I'm guessing it might be good. Plus there are a few secrets in the game I am not telling you about. (hint: Disused subway terminal in City.)
Tilt-I thorougly enjoyed this game, to be honest the first level of Perfect Dark reminded me of it. But then again I was 12...