September 23, 2011
Dino-Shooter Promises Primal Carnage
I’m always a bit amused by dinosaur shooters. For the first time in 65 million years or more, non-avian dinosaur species again roam the planet and the best thing we can think of is to turn ‘em into chunky cat food. And, given the quality of many run-and-gun dinosaur adventures, do we really need any more games that pit machine-gun-toting players against hordes of Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus? Isn’t it about time for something different?
Whether you’re as tired of dinosaur shooters as I am, though, there’s no doubt they’ll keep coming. The chance to virtually shoot a bazooka at a raptor seems too good to resist, and the next game due to pop up in this genre is Primal Carnage. The game has been in development for a while, but earlier this month the shooter’s creators released a short video that shows what the actual gameplay is going to be like for a few of the human and dinosaurian characters. You can either try to pick off your dinosaur enemies at a distance as one of the humans, or get up close and personal with teeth and claws as one of the several theropod classes. I have to admit, stomping around as a Tyrannosaurus is pretty tempting, but we’ll have to see whether Primal Carnage can really deliver what it promises.
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Really enjoyed the Jurassic Park game back in the day, with this exact sort of gameplay. Hopefully it’ll be as good as that was. (And longer than 20 minutes, which was the length of the Raptor storyline in that game, IIRC. :p)
“Whether you’re as tired of dinosaur shooters as I am, though, there’s no doubt they’ll keep coming.”
Tired? We haven’t had one since Turok in 2008 according to my knowledge (I’m not counting Jurassic: The Hunted. Doesn’t deserve it.)
If you should be tired of any video game enemy, it should be terrorists or nazi zombies. I want a survival-type dinosaur game in an open sandbox environment like that Jurassic Park game that got cancelled. That would be awesome.
Is it a federal law that all dinosaur games have to have the word “Primal” in the title?
i know it ain’t dinosaur related, but i suggest you hold out for “Aliens: Colonial Marines”