C&D has a bland, drab setting with not a single memorable stage or moment, outside of the car driving section. You can pick up a variety of guns that are so satisfying use. Hannah was my favorite, as she had an unstoppable flying knee that might be the most effective move in any of these Capcom brawlers. You can swap between them after you game over, and there’s merits to each one. There’s four characters, and they all feel different enough to make a complete journey through the eight levels worthwhile. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs uses the same engine as Warriors of Fate, but it’s so much better here. The rest of the game does mange to do just enough feel unique, even if it’s completely forgettable. When your car takes too much damage, the driving ends permanently and never comes back. They’re hella fun.īesides the dinosaurs, the only other stand-out is one all-to-brief driving section that’s too easy and ends in a boss fight where you try to knock a guy off a motorcycle. Honestly, C&D could have probably gotten a YES! just from the weapons alone. It’s wonderful! Not so gory that it becomes a farce. When an explosive takes the final pieces of damage off an enemy, this happens. In the wake of Mortal Kombat, it feels like everybody wanted to get in on making their own digital giblets. There should have been one every wave of enemies. Also, there’s just plain not enough dinosaurs. It’d add actual strategy to the game if the dinosaurs attacked everything indiscriminately, players and enemies. It’s a mechanic that only works if you’ve got multiple players, and those players REMEMBER TO NOT HIT THE DINOSAURS, Dad! Also, I kind of wish the dinosaurs would attack everyone on screen. In my solo game, I never once was able to prevent the enemies from waking up the dinosaurs. In execution, I found C&D actually takes it too far. It’d be too easy to stop them from waking up a now angry T-Rex. It’s a fine idea, in theory, and one that wouldn’t have worked if they had to limit the enemies on screen. Enemies will come onto the screen and, instead of trying to attack you, some will walk up to the sleeping dinosaurs and smack them, waking them up and turning them aggressive. They’re often just sleeping, and that’s where the one-of-a-kind hook comes into play. It’s literally “f *ck around and find out” gameplay. They’ll only attack if you or an enemy hit them, at which point they turn brown. Most of the Capcom brawlers were in a similar situation and came home anyway, but in the case of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, it would have taken away from the dinosaur mechanics. Maybe they could have done other stuff with it too.Īpparently, the decision to not port this was based around the SNES being unable to handle as many characters on screen as the arcade game has.
Maybe it wouldn’t have been as fun if they overdid it, but I don’t know. In fact, let’s remove the “s” at the end of “Cadillacs” because, really, there’s only one section based around them in the whole game. The lack of Cadillacs is the second major problem. A flow chart’s worth of rights issues or not, I never bet against Capcom, and I predict this will be re-released by the end of 2024. They even got their version of Aladdin into Disney Classic Games as DLC. It seems like too many moving parts, but Capcom has a knack for pulling it off. Even the name “Cadillacs and Dinosaurs” itself is owned by General Motors. At first glance, it would seem like the complications with C&D put it out of bounds, since the creator, a comic book company, a game company, and possibly CBS own some stake in it. If I had to guess the two licensed titles I’m doing in 2023 that have the absolute best chance at a modern re-release, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs I think is the #1 contender, with Capcom’s Alien vs. I’m trying to bring these games to the attention of both their original fans and their publishers/rights holders. Unfortunately, I’m experiencing no shortage of licensed arcade games that haven’t seen the light of day since their original release.
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