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Between the late 1990s and the early 2000s, the Ukrainian game development studio Action Forms produced a trilogy of hunting simulation games known as the Carnivores series, in which the player could hunt prehistoric wildlife on an alien planet. The first two games in the trilogy focused on dinosaurs as the game animals whereas the third, Carnivores: Ice Age, switched to Cenozoic animals in a cold polar environment. Since the dinosaurs in the first two Carnivores games were reconstructed according to a combination of "retro" and 1990s aesthetics, I've taken it upon myself to redesign them to better mirror modern ideas of dinosaurs.

Our sixth dinosaur is the Carnivores 2 replacement for the Triceratops, Chasmosaurus. In real life, the Chasmosaurus was a significantly smaller ceratopsian than the Triceratops, but you wouldn't know that from the game's portrayal, in which its dimensions as well as behavior were all but identical to the Triceratops from the first game. Only its model was different, and even then, it looked more like a Triceratops with a spikier frill than an actual Chasmosaurus.

Description
Between the late 1990s and the early 2000s, the Ukrainian game development studio Action Forms produced a trilogy of hunting simulation games known as the Carnivores series, in which the player could hunt prehistoric wildlife on an alien planet. The first two games in the trilogy focused on dinosaurs as the game animals whereas the third, Carnivores: Ice Age, switched to Cenozoic animals in a cold polar environment. Since the dinosaurs in the first two Carnivores games were reconstructed according to a combination of "retro" and 1990s aesthetics, I've taken it upon myself to redesign them to better mirror modern ideas of dinosaurs.

Our sixth dinosaur is the Carnivores 2 replacement for the Triceratops, Chasmosaurus. In real life, the Chasmosaurus was a significantly smaller ceratopsian than the Triceratops, but you wouldn't know that from the game's portrayal, in which its dimensions as well as behavior were all but identical to the Triceratops from the first game. Only its model was different, and even then, it looked more like a Triceratops with a spikier frill than an actual Chasmosaurus.