The first trailer for a new open-world dinosaur survival game "ARK: Survival Evolved" has been revealed.
Independent developer Studio Wildcard announced "ARK: Survival Evolved," a prehistoric survival game that give players a chance to walk with prehistoric creatures in virtual reality. The prehistoric survival game will be available on Sony's new Project Morpheus virtual reality headset for PlayStation 4.
With its new project, Studio Wildcard is promising a lot more than just the ability to ride prehistoric creatures. The studio bills the game as an "open-world dinosaur survival game."
A player, as a human man or woman, awakens naked on an island along with a group of other players. The player must seek for food in the bizarre weather where the days are extremely hot and the nights are freezing.
Players need to gather resources to build shelters along with other items to eke out a mere existence. In addition, players will have to learn how to hunt the dinosaurs along with other now-extinct beasts, woolly mammoths and megalodons and eventually tame them in order to truly survive, according to a report on Polygon.
Jesse Rapczak, Studio Wildcard founder and technical art director recently dropped by the PlayStation Blog to discuss "ARK: Survival Evolved."
"We're shooting for the moon with this one," Rapczak said of the fully persistent game world tens of thousands of Al entities, completely destructible foliage and environment. Plus, the game is multiplayer on a huge scale. Rapczak further added, "And yeah, we've got dinosaurs. Dinosaurs that you can ride!"
The 60 species available at launch won't be just standing around, waiting to get stabbed either, Rapczak explained. They are designed with a predator/prey ecosystem in mind, CinemaBlend noted.
Studio Wildcard is developing "ARK Survival Evolved" in Unreal Engine 4 for Linux, PS 4, Mac, Windows PC and Xbox One. In a press release, the studio said that it will bring the PC version to Steam Early Access on June 2. The company is planning for a year of Early Access development, with a release on all platforms slated for June 2016.
The version of Ark that the studio is launching on Early Access will encompass 30 creatures that can be tamed, along with temperature and weather systems, water, food and the ability to build and paint structures with architectural integrity. The game will also feature crops that can be planted, grown and harvested; mythical monsters; and mod support.
Not much else is known about the title yet, though its apparently a PvP-focused enterprise.
Check out the announcement trailer below.
