To help with this, you can form tribes with other players and tame some of the prehistoric animals to protect you or attack pesky neighbors. Eventually, you’ll be able to grow crops as well – but you always have to be careful that animals or other players don’t lay waste to your hard work. Plants, meat and fresh water sustain you, but you’ll need minerals and wood to start building the structures that eventually form your base. If it’s not the action portion that you’re after, but rather the survival section, then ARK has an interesting approach to prehistorical survival. Perhaps part of that is that my expectations were off, or they were improperly managed. The buildup – if you even get there before being taken down multiple times, is relatively long compared to the impression I got when I saw the trailers for the game as well. There are some truly standout moments like that where ARK really shines, but the road to get there felt too long for a player like me. And then there are pterosaurs as well, which can deliver aerial attacks or carry friendly troops over enemy lines for an attack on their less-defended rear. Laying waste to your enemies while riding a T-Rex never really gets boring though – and how could it? A brontosaurus isn’t a fierce flesh-eating monster like the T-Rex, but it can do serious damage on account of its sheer size and mass. When you eventually grow stronger and more powerful, using dinosaurs is very cool – even though some feel quite clunky to control. Once you’re able to tame or even ride these prehistoric beasts, you’re a long ways away from the early steps of the game where you struggle to survive and gather wood and other resources in the hopes of building up a somewhat secure camp – one in which you possibly join forces with other human players as well, if they don’t ransack the place and take you down instead. One thing that ARK: Survival Evolved does extremely well is deliver content – the sheer amount of creatures added during the early access phase is staggering, and although some of them are quite identical in nature there are quite a few game-changers in there as well. So until now, I hadn’t gone hands on with ARK – but I was sad to see it still felt like an early access product due to technical and balancing difficulties. A prehistoric world in which you struggle for survival and can run into a very diverse range of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures – what wasn’t to like? I generally don’t play much early access though, since my gaming time is limited and there’s already such a great amount of finished games out there to play – not to mention all the titles on my backlog. After previewing the PS4 version earlier, we now gave the PC version a try.įrom the moment ARK was first announced (it was in early access for years), the concept seemed absolutely great to me. ARK: Survival Evolved has left early access and has simultaneously been released in its full form on consoles.
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