Velociraptor Vulgaris

Velociraptor Vulgaris
General information
Type	Wildlife
Individual information
Health	25 (normal variant) 500 (large variant)
Attacks / weapons	Fireball (30)

The Velociraptor Vulgaris , also simply known as Dino, is a rideable mount that appears in Serious Sam 2.

Overview

The Velociraptor's appearance in the first level of the game.

The Velociraptor is a medium-sized green alien creature resembling a dromaeosaurid dinosaur. It lives on the planet M'Digbo and can be ridden. It is capable of shooting fireballs from its mouth and is fairly fast, but has very low health.

The player can get a second Velociraptor by using a secret teleporter. It has 500 health, higher attack damage and can kill enemies by running over them. However, its movement and attack speed are lower than the smaller regular Velociraptor. Also due to being bigger, it's easier to get hit by enemy fire.

Appearances

The Velociraptor is very rare, and only appears on the first level, Jungle.

Tactics

• The Velociraptor is useful for clearing out weak enemies in the first level. Its fireballs can kill weak enemies in one shot, and stronger enemies (at least the ones in the first level) can be easily defeated by holding down the fire key and aiming at the target. Its rate of fire is fast enough that it can kill a stronger enemy after two or so seconds of holding down the fire key.
• The Velociraptor's low health requires that the player has to constantly dodge enemy attacks. A few hits from even weak enemies can kill it. Thankfully, it is fast enough that it can dodge every attack shot at the player as long as the player is strafing.
• The secret larger variant is a lot more useful, as it has much larger health, its projectiles can kill multiple Orcs at once and its ramming attack is also strong enough that it can gib the Orcs with ease.

Trivia

• The Velociraptor's appearance is based on outdated depictions of dromaeosarid dinosaurs in popular culture, like in the Jurassic Park franchise. It is known that in real life they had feathers and obviously didn't breathe fire.
• The Velociraptor is a possible reference to Yoshi from the Super Mario Bros. franchise.
• The creature's name could also be a reference to Dino from The Flintstones. This is supported by the fact that during one cutscene in Ursul Gardens there is another reference to the aforementioned franchise.

Gallery

Pre-release

Beta model.

Retail

Model.

Fireball tossed by the Velociraptor.

List of appearances

• Serious Sam 2 (First appearance) (non-canonical appearance)