"Steven Spielberg made them stars. My almost-3-year-old worships them. They're wilder than anything writers like Tolkien dreamed up. And they actually existed. So why the heck has no one tried their hand at an open-world dinosaur game before?
No, Trespasser doesn't count (plus: awful, terrible game). The Turoks were mediocre FPSes. I'll spare you the dossier of forgettable Jurassic Park film tie-ins.
There was The Stomping Land, a multiplayer-angled dinosaur survival game crowdfunded to the tune of $100,000 USD a few years ago. That might have counted, and its trailer pitch looked promising, but at last check, the game's creator was missing in action and the modeler was abandoning ship.
So now we're looking at ARK: Survival Evolved, a bona fide stab at an open-world dinosaur MMO announced this week by an outfit calling itself Studio Wildcard. A shame about that clumsy name, but hey, ARK is already looking to beat The Stomping Land‘s sorry track record, with deals signed for PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
You can try it for yourself via Steam Early Access on June 2. Here's what it looks like…"
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