Dino Strike is a Beat 'em Up action game produced by Miniclip.com, loosely based on the old arcade classic, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs 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 Mad Scientist 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 Characters (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.
Time to kick some ass and save some dinos:
- Bad Guys Play Pool: The first boss is fought in a pool center, where you interrupt their game and proceed to beat them all up.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: The female commando wears an orange sports bra.
- Some of the female enemies also have outfits that show their bellies.
- Big Bad: The unnamed Mad Scientist who leads the poachers and is in charge of converting captured dinos into weapons.
- Chainsaw Good: Overweight, bare-chested mooks armed with chainsaws are another recurring enemy, some of them even wearing potato sack masks in a nod to Leatherface. Sadly, despite the various weapons the players CAN use in this game, chainsaws aren't one of them.
- Chest Blaster: An ability of the Final Boss in his One-Winged Angel dinosaur-machine-human hybrid form.
- Crate Expectations: 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 the Mad Scientist Final Boss, in his penultimate form, seems to have machinery grafted into his body as well, with generators connected to electrical wiring on his back.
- Domesticated Dinosaurs: 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 Assist Character 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 whip. Their appearance appears to be based on Carol and Brenda from the old-school classic Captain Commando.
- Evil Poacher: 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.
- Excuse Plot: The game doesn't really have much of a plot besides "beat up evil poachers, also there are dinosaurs".
- Giant Mook: 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.
- Guns Are Worthless: Bullets in this game, whether used by the heroes or by mooks, does roughly the same damage as a stronger kick.
- Hulking Out: The Mad Scientist main villain, who becomes all muscular from tainting himself with dinosaur DNA. And later on, turning himself further into a One-Winged Angel form, a dinosaur-human mutant monster.
- Island Base: The game's final stage is set in one of these belonging to the Mad Scientist, 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.
- Kick Chick: The second hero, the female commando, fights exclusively with kicks.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: In classic arcade beat 'em up style, you can replendish health by eating food, including sandwiches, cheese, hot dogs, pot roast and pizza.
- Psycho Knife Nut: Knife-wielding poachers are a recurring enemy, which they can throw at the players if they're a distance away.
- Raptor Attack: 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.
- Recurring Boss: The Mad Scientist 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 Sequential Boss who turns himself into a dinosaur-human hybrid.
- Unwilling Roboticisation: 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.
- A Winner Is You: After defeating the Mad Scientist boss (BOTH his forms)? You get a single-screen panel telling you "CONGRATULATIONS"!... and then the game ends.
