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TIL the original Dino Crisis 3–developed by Capcom (which created the Resident Evil series)–placed players in fighting time-displaced dinosaurs rampaging across a city due to the time rifts caused by the events in Dino Crisis 2. It was scrapped in favor of a futuristic spaceship version due to 9/11.

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