ARK: Survival Evolved

This will be a reasonable short review I think, because I only played the game for a couple of hours before deciding that this wasn't my sort of thing and moving on.

Waking up on a beach, naked and vulnerable, the player must gather resources in order to survive both the elements and the variety of prehistoric creatures that inhabit the island. As your character develops, you can head deeper into the jungle where the creatures increase in size and danger but there are unique resources.

It felt immediately to me like the sort of game that's much better on PC that on console. I was playing the Playstation Plus release of the game from a few months ago. The ability to map actions to certain buttons would have been helpful and might have stopped me from repeatedly opening the menu over and over. I also struggled initially to start a game on my own, so ended up wandering around someone else's game and then leaving when I couldn't work out what to do.

A quick look at some online guides and figuring out how to kick off my own private map and the game was much improved. I scavenged for a bit, built a fire and some clothes, punched a dodo to death. Then I started to realise a fact that I think is reflected in the other reviews here, with no real goal to the game, beyond not dying, it was probably going to be hours of play before I was able to make any real progress into it and I don't have the time anymore to commit to a game like that.

Though it was a bit buggy, with the odd glitching graphic and the occasional dinosaur caught in an obvious programming loop, there did look to be a lot of depth to it, in terms of crafting options, with metal and firearms eventually becoming an option. It's just not one I'm going to be able to commit enough time too to make it worthwhile.

The game is overall pretty good, though does have some technical problems I give it a 7.1/10.

I just made this account to comment that this game is very great and simple/easy to follow along with. Has an interesting lore like many games out there and a superb soundtrack. This game is very fun especially on multiplayer but single-player is also very fun that is when you have stuff to do by yourself. It may be a little difficult and buggy but I spent hours playing this simple video game. So 10/10.

Listening to the soundtrack for this game is also very nostalgic!

If you want to play alone i don't recommend the game. But if you want to play with friends is awesome. I have it on ps4 and pc and is much better on pc but still recommend in both plataforms.

I bought this game when it was on sale on Steam for I believe $20.00, played and it's actually pretty good, the only thing is that it requires SO MUCH to run although I'd say in the end it's worth it.

The games atmosphere is just groundbreaking in many ways, if you focus solely on the premise and sound design of the game you will most likely be reeled in for a good playthrough. On PC there are also many mods you could download to add variety to your game which is in my opinion very amazing. Multi-player is slightly more fun than single player but they are still both good in many ways. I also have to give out some pros on the graphics they are very good and has amazing visuals to go along with it, they may look pretty bad on a PC with lesser requirements but on a PC with a great graphics card they should look great.

Now the game does have its problems. For one as I said before it requires a beast PC in order to perform properly, and as of 2022 there are still a couple of bugs that remain in the game which can get a little aggravating to work with.

I give this game an 8/10.