Mike F

By far one of the worst survival gaming experiences I’ve had. Every mechanic in the game is overly rigid and hardly can be done when surrounded by your clan. Instead of making the game more open and free as it progresses you, in fact, run into their “Fear of the Unknown” more often than in earlier generations or evolutions. Every 5-10 feet you have to stop, use intelligence, try to scan around the area. Tedious and repetitive equates to an annoying gaming experience not a challenging one. Then we get into the combat aspect. Call it what you want but I’ve never seen a hippo, a tiger, and a warthog taking a stroll through the jungle hand in hand! Wildlife only have one item on the menu and that is monkey meat. Good luck getting nature to be natural and have predators engage each other. You may get lucky and the game will figure out that there are two predators next to each other and give you a choppy cutscene to watch. So impressed! Combat itself is far too simple, I easily fend off any threat. No guerrilla warfare, no jumping and striking from the trees, just engage and wait for a soundque. Whoopie! Now we get into the actual survival of it! Eat, drink, sleep. Easy right? Wrong. No indicators to let you know what you need other than body language, which doesn’t animate if you’re carrying stuff. You get an update when you wake up from rest, if it’s at all accurate. Lay down to sleep for 12 hours, get up and I start nodding off as if I didn’t just wake up from a berry induced coma. Eat and drink and head off into the world, nope gotta stop because the game didn’t register that you were thirsty yet. Talk about a forgotten, broken, garbage heap of an absurdly infantile attempt at a survival game. 0 stars if I could.