I can't deny the satisfaction that lies in raising an energy barrier and buffeting a horde of raptors into a wall, or snapping my fingers and triggering a wall of fire to grill a Triceratops. Fun just means different things to different people, and Exoprimal better suits those who'd rather switch off and toast some scaley lads in low stakes competition. That's not to say there isn't any fun in swatting away waves of dinosaurs. Although, there's always a chance you queue up for a game and you're taken back to Daisy Daisy Daisy. If you manage to stay strong and cross the ten hour mark, most of your matches feature a greater mixture of lizards or final encounters which aren't just escort missions. I contemplated what pleasant European old town I could've travelled to in that time, and the laminated menu I could've ordered an iced coffee and a little cake from. I got up frequently to stare out the window or make myself a big glass of orange and mango squash. I cannot tell you how hard I struggled to power through those 'early' hours. Seriously, your first match of Dino Survival will be your only match of Dino Survival for five or six hours. What's not so good is the game's baffling decision to ensure the earliest races are about as engaging as that harrowing Marc Jacob's advert which featured three girls saying "Daisy Daisy Daisy'' over and over and over as they rolled about in some grass. This is helped by red phantoms of the opposing team popping up between waves and regular announcements telling you whether you're faster or slower than them. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/CapcomĪs with any race, it does unlock some primal urge to be first. It's particularly useful if you're losing out in a race, as your dino-distraction can buy your team time to catch up. Sometimes you're able to invade the enemy team as a big T-Rex or triceratops and just leather them with tail whips or jaw snaps. Also, one time our entire team decided to go with a guy who's basically Overwatch's Junkrat and we did really well, so make of that what you will. At any point during a match, you can swap between classes to suit the mood, although I rarely found myself doing this unless another teammate just decided they didn't want to heal people anymore. Some are fairly predictable, aka guy-with-big-shield, while others like the Witch Doctor have a cattle prod and the ability to do a spinny leap to get into the action. The game's more traditional leanings lie in its classes: Tank, DPS, and Support. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Exoprimal is at its best when the dinosaur swarms are so thick, you're just wading in them like soup. Extra points are awarded for allowing you to select whether you'd like to queue for a match which involves PVP or none at all, the main difference being zero fights between teams in final encounters if you opt for PVE only. Points go to Exoprimal for being, at least, different from the usual live service fodder. The majority of the race is bashing hordes as quickly as you can, with the aim of getting to a "final encounter" where the race is still on, but the objective switches to like, escorting a cube, charging a hammer, or sometimes: taking on a radioactive T-Rex covered in purple blisters. Dino Survival is the only mode at the moment, where matches are split into two phases. Where most have you battling each other for control of a large ring or leaderboard supremacy, Exoprimal has teams of five slay waves of dinosaurs in a race to the finish line. The dinosaurs don't deserve this.Īs a competitive, team based shooter Exoprimal is an outlier. Even as someone who finds the fun in mindless carnage, I'd much rather ditch my mech suit and let the dinosaurs run rampant. It forces you to sit through hours of repetitive dino-slaying and then only offers you the chance, the chance to slay dinos in a way that isn't excruciatingly samey. There are fun moments to be had as you queue up for Dino Survival and suddenly, remarkably, things have changed a bit.īut the game doesn't respect your time. "Just play several more hours and things really open up! Variety in the dinos, in the modes, in just about everything!". I held out hope it would improve, though, as lots of commenters assured me it's fun side would finally surface. I thought Exoprimal somehow managed to make dinosaurs versus mechs, aka the coolest concept ever, boring in my review-in-progress.
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