This will be a reasonable short review I think, because I only played the game for a couple of hours before deciding that this wasn't my sort of thing and moving on.
Waking up on a beach, naked and vulnerable, the player must gather resources in order to survive both the elements and the variety of prehistoric creatures that inhabit the island. As your character develops, you can head deeper into the jungle where the creatures increase in size and danger but there are unique resources.
It felt immediately to me like the sort of game that's much better on PC that on console. I was playing the Playstation Plus release of the game from a few months ago. The ability to map actions to certain buttons would have been helpful and might have stopped me from repeatedly opening the menu over and over. I also struggled initially to start a game on my own, so ended up wandering around someone else's game and then leaving when I couldn't work out what to do.
A quick look at some online guides and figuring out how to kick off my own private map and the game was much improved. I scavenged for a bit, built a fire and some clothes, punched a dodo to death. Then I started to realise a fact that I think is reflected in the other reviews here, with no real goal to the game, beyond not dying, it was probably going to be hours of play before I was able to make any real progress into it and I don't have the time anymore to commit to a game like that.
Though it was a bit buggy, with the odd glitching graphic and the occasional dinosaur caught in an obvious programming loop, there did look to be a lot of depth to it, in terms of crafting options, with metal and firearms eventually becoming an option. It's just not one I'm going to be able to commit enough time too to make it worthwhile.
Waking up on a beach, naked and vulnerable, the player must gather resources in order to survive both the elements and the variety of prehistoric creatures that inhabit the island. As your character develops, you can head deeper into the jungle where the creatures increase in size and danger but there are unique resources.
It felt immediately to me like the sort of game that's much better on PC that on console. I was playing the Playstation Plus release of the game from a few months ago. The ability to map actions to certain buttons would have been helpful and might have stopped me from repeatedly opening the menu over and over. I also struggled initially to start a game on my own, so ended up wandering around someone else's game and then leaving when I couldn't work out what to do.
A quick look at some online guides and figuring out how to kick off my own private map and the game was much improved. I scavenged for a bit, built a fire and some clothes, punched a dodo to death. Then I started to realise a fact that I think is reflected in the other reviews here, with no real goal to the game, beyond not dying, it was probably going to be hours of play before I was able to make any real progress into it and I don't have the time anymore to commit to a game like that.
Though it was a bit buggy, with the odd glitching graphic and the occasional dinosaur caught in an obvious programming loop, there did look to be a lot of depth to it, in terms of crafting options, with metal and firearms eventually becoming an option. It's just not one I'm going to be able to commit enough time too to make it worthwhile.