General Gameplay Strategy for Dino Crisis II

• If you let go of the 'ready primary weapon' button for a moment, and then press it again, then you retarget. However, it is slow.
• If you press the down arrow, you not only back up, but you autotarget an enemy too. This is much faster.
• With most weapons, firing means stopping, but a few (flamethrower, submachineguns) let you walk or run while firing.
• The designers of the game expect you to stop to shoot when you see a dino leap out of the bushes ahead of you. Don't. They always set up a second dino to jump out right where you are standing when the first one appears.
• In fact, barely stop running at all. Stopping usually just gets you in trouble, except at Third Energy Causeways when you have the submachineguns (see below)
• You know how they warn you not to turn your back on the dinos? If you run past, you can get a huge combo, if you dodge back and forth when they leap at you.
  Note: Only Dylan can pull this off, with his shotgun. Regina will get mobbed, because she can hit only one target at a time until she gets the submachine guns
• Buy magazines, as big as you can afford, or save for the bigger ones. You will need to have lots of ammo.
• The hand weapon enhancements (for the machete and the stun-whatever) are almost worthless. Buy something else.
• Regina's submachine guns are da bomb on the causeway at the Third Energy. I have gotten a combo of twenty or something of those water dinosaurs, with the no damage bonus!
• About the Third Energy ... The spring or waterfall or whatever is in the jungle near where you started.
• Some weapons must be bought to finish the game. The game tells you when you need it.
• The birds are almost impossible to shoot, and they swarm you like all getout. Dodging is the name of the game.
• Read the notes you find. A couple are hidden, but they just describe dinos. However, if you haven't seen a dinosaur one describes, then it is about to turn up.