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** Some of the female enemies also have outfits that show their bellies.
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* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: The female commando wears an orange sports bra.
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* {{Dominatrix}}: Some of the female poachers are dressed in skintight leather, and attacks with a [[WhipItGood whip]]. Their appearance appears to be based on Carol and Brenda from the old-school classic ''VideoGame/CaptainCommando''.

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* {{Dominatrix}}: Some of the female poachers are dressed in skintight leather, and attacks with a [[WhipItGood [[WhipOfDominance whip]]. Their appearance appears to be based on Carol and Brenda from the old-school classic ''VideoGame/CaptainCommando''.
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* PteroSoarer: The final island stage has modified pterosaurs in the outdoors, which swoops around trying to get the drop on the players. They're harder to hit since they're airborne - prepare to jump and kick a lot.
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* BareYourMidriff: The lady commando and dominatrix poachers.
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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Pretty much the highlight of the game. What's better is that the dinosaurs are on the side of ''good'', being modified by evil poachers into becoming weapons of war until the players released them.
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* StockDinosaurs: The captured dinosaurs you must save includes raptors, triceratops, stegosaurus, and late in the game's island stage you can face pterosaurs.
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* {{Dominatrix}}: Some of the female poachers are dressed in skintight leather, and attacks with a [[WhipItGood whip]]. Their appearance appears to be a ShoutOut to Carol and Brenda from the old-school classic ''VideoGame/CaptainCommando''.

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* {{Dominatrix}}: Some of the female poachers are dressed in skintight leather, and attacks with a [[WhipItGood whip]]. Their appearance appears to be a ShoutOut to based on Carol and Brenda from the old-school classic ''VideoGame/CaptainCommando''.

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* KnifeNut: Knife-wielding poachers are a recurring enemy, which they can throw at the players if they're a distance away. The player themselves can pick up knives and expertly slice up foes during gameplay.


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* PsychoKnifeNut: Knife-wielding poachers are a recurring enemy, which they can throw at the players if they're a distance away.
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* WhoWearsShortShorts: The female commando does!
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* BadGuysPlayRool: The first boss is fought in a pool center, where you interrupt their game and proceed to beat them all up.

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* BadGuysPlayRool: BadGuysPlayPool: The first boss is fought in a pool center, where you interrupt their game and proceed to beat them all up.
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''Dino Strike'' is a BeatEmUp action game produced by Miniclip.com, loosely based on the old arcade classic, ''VideoGame/CadillacsAndDinosaurs'' to the point of being an unofficial remake.

Much like the game it's based on, ''Dino Strike'' has the discovery of an island sanctuary full of dinosaurs, not yet extinct - and an evil syndicate led by a MadScientist had decided to take over the island, abduct the peaceful dinosaurs, and weaponize them before setting them loose as weapons. Now, it's up to the two {{Player Character}}s (a pair of unnamed mercenaries, the man and woman seen on the title screen up there) to release the dinosaurs from enslavement and infiltrate the syndicate's island stronghold to thwart their plans.

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!! Time to kick some ass and save some dinos:

* BadGuysPlayRool: The first boss is fought in a pool center, where you interrupt their game and proceed to beat them all up.
* BareYourMidriff: The lady commando and dominatrix poachers.
* BigBad: The unnamed MadScientist who leads the poachers and is in charge of converting captured dinos into weapons.
* ChainsawGood: Overweight, bare-chested mooks armed with chainsaws are another recurring enemy, some of them even wearing potato sack masks in a nod to [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]]. Sadly, despite the various weapons the players CAN use in this game, chainsaws ''aren't'' one of them.
* ChestBlaster: An ability of the FinalBoss [[spoiler: in his OneWingedAngel dinosaur-machine-human hybrid form]].
* CrateExpectations: Destroyed crates can yield weapons, food, or simply objects to be collected for points (is that a golden watch?). The game even includes rooms ''full'' of crates to be smashed up.
* {{Cyborg}}: What the dinosaurs essentially become after being modified by the poachers. Meanwhile, the second boss has mechanical appeandages all over his body, iincluding a raptor-like tail, while [[spoiler: the MadScientist FinalBoss, in his penultimate form, seems to have machinery grafted into his body as well, with generators connected to electrical wiring on his back]].
* DomesticatedDinosaurs: After the players managed to destroy the machines grafted on the dinosaurs, turning back to a natural state. Released dinosaurs will actually serve as an AssistCharacter by mauling nearby poachers, or simply wander around if there aren't enemies left.
* {{Dominatrix}}: Some of the female poachers are dressed in skintight leather, and attacks with a [[WhipItGood whip]]. Their appearance appears to be a ShoutOut to Carol and Brenda from the old-school classic ''VideoGame/CaptainCommando''.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Pretty much the highlight of the game. What's better is that the dinosaurs are on the side of ''good'', being modified by evil poachers into becoming weapons of war until the players released them.
* EvilPoacher: They're the villains of the game, who kidnapped multiple dinosaurs and put them through cyborgification process as weapons, and it's up to the players to stop them.
* ExcusePlot: The game doesn't really have much of a plot besides "beat up evil poachers, also there are dinosaurs".
* GiantMook: Larger dinosaurs such as triceratops and stegosaurus serve this purpose, although once you destroy the core of their cyborg modifications they're then on ''your'' side.
* GunsAreWorthless: Bullets in this game, whether used by the heroes or by mooks, does roughly the same damage as a stronger kick.
* HulkingOut: The MadScientist main villain, who becomes all muscular from tainting himself with dinosaur DNA. [[spoiler: And later on, turning himself further into a OneWingedAngel form, a dinosaur-human mutant monster]].
* IslandBase: The game's final stage is set in one of these belonging to the MadScientist, with it's surface roaming with modified dinosaurs which the player must release, and then fight their way through mooks and enslaved dinosaurs before confronting the scientist.
* KickChick: The second hero, the female commando, fights exclusively with kicks.
* KnifeNut: Knife-wielding poachers are a recurring enemy, which they can throw at the players if they're a distance away. The player themselves can pick up knives and expertly slice up foes during gameplay.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: In classic arcade beat 'em up style, you can replendish health by eating food, including sandwiches, cheese, hot dogs, pot roast and pizza.
* PteroSoarer: The final island stage has modified pterosaurs in the outdoors, which swoops around trying to get the drop on the players. They're harder to hit since they're airborne - prepare to jump and kick a lot.
* RaptorAttack: Played both ways - your enemies include ''cyborg'' raptors with machine-guns grafted into their limbs, until you release them by destroying the armor enslaving the raptors. Then, the raptors will be on ''your'' side, biting enemy poachers and mauling unfortunate mooks.
* RecurringBoss: The MadScientist who leads the poachers is fought twice in the game, in the second-to-last level where it's revealed he had modified himself with dinosaur DNA. After a tough fight, he flees as the player goes through another level leading to his laboratory, repeating the fight against the scientist... but in the second fight he's a SequentialBoss [[spoiler: who turns himself into a dinosaur-human hybrid]].
* StockDinosaurs: The captured dinosaurs you must save includes raptors, triceratops, stegosaurus, and late in the game's island stage you can face pterosaurs.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: How the poachers made captured dinosaurs their slaves, by grafting machinery and plated armour on the dino's bodies. However it's easily reversible - damaging the core of each armour until it breaks will have the dinos will regain control of their bodies and return to a domesticated state.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: The female commando does!
* AWinnerIsYou: After defeating the MadScientist boss (BOTH his forms)? You get a single-screen panel telling you "CONGRATULATIONS"!... and then the game ends.
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