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Survival Evolved is a great many things
Saturday, February 24th 2018, 6:13 AM; 226; 0; +0 | 0 | -0
Ark: Survival Evolved is a great many things, all of them absurdly ambitious, and none of them particularly polished. Evolution sim, survival game, PvP combat arena, sandbox, single-player adventure, and mod hotbed are all part of its repertoire, although frankly I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a decent racing game in there somewhere too. It’s also that rarest of modern-day gaming phenomena: an Early Access game that actually got a final release. As such, a critical discussion about it needs to take a different path than usual since a) it’s already made Warren Buffet levels of money, and b) it doesn’t really have a fair comparison point. This kind of full release is so rare for a survival game that the industry hasn’t actually decided what it should look and play like once it’s finished www.onlinegameshop.com .
For example, my first unforgiving and death-peppered hours in Ark were spent thinking to myself, �boy, this game does not care about guiding new players’. The �survival guide’ in the main menu is a flimsy text-and-images gesture towards acclimatisation, and absolutely everything I learned about crafting, combat, taming, the ecosystem, and console commands came from Wiki pages and other players.
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