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5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best Dinosaur Hunting sim ever, March 18, 2006
A Kid's Review
= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Primal Prey (CD-ROM)
Primal Prey beats all of the games from the Carnivores series. It also beats other dinosaur-related games, for example Jurassic Park Operation Genesis etc. But why is this? At first sights, Primal Prey looks nothing more than a wannabe hunting game, or some kind of spoof of some of its more original predecessors. To put it simply, it's not. It's possibly my favourite PC game of all time. The graphics are nothing special. The dinosaurs and the plants all look pretty blocky, and the water is completely still and plain. The weapons look a bit like something out of the star-trek laser gun genre, and all look pretty dorky at first. However, once you get used to them, they start looking a bit more hard-core. I am not saying the graphics are bad, though- the dinosaurs move smoothly, and I also like the way that if you stay in one hunting area too long the sky gets gradually darker until you wish you'd brought your night vision goggles. Primal Prey has cleverly grouped all the dinosaurs into male and female- the males are generally more vibrantly coloured, and are protective over the females. This is good progression from the Carnivores series, which had no concept of gender whatsoever. Also, if you shoot a dinosaur, it leaves a scar on its hide, and shoot it with a tranquilizer dart, and you can see the dart protruding from it's skin. It's nothing much, but it adds more realism to the game. There is quite a lot of blood, too. It's amazing how much blood is emitted from shooting a Troodon with a rifle. The sound is solid stuff. The addition of frogs croaking, pterosaurs cawing in the distance, and the ever-present buzzing of crickets make you feel as though you are actually walking through a late-cretacious landscape. Walk in quicksand and you'll hear your hunter groaning under the strain of walking knee-high in the mud, and eventuall you'll start to drown. The drowning, I must say, isn't very well done. Your player starts shrieking as soon as you begin to sink, as though you're being stabbed, and even after your final cry of anguish, for some reason you can still hear the hunter grunting and groaning. All the other noises, like the dinosaur calls are perfecly added and dubbed. Well, I suppose there are some problems. After killing a T-rex, you'll watch him fall to the floor silently, then about a minute later you'll hear a loud THUD, when he should have neen hitting the floor. Oh well. The AI is spectacular. The carnivores really will hunt the herbivores, not just you, and upon hearing a predator the herbivores will run off in fear until they are re-grouped with their herd. Say you sniped a Utahraptor with a rifle, the other pack members, upon noticing the death, will run around blindly for a second, until noticing you- then there's trouble afoot. I bet the raptors say 'I've got a BONE to pick with you!' Ha ha! Ha. Er, anyway, the fantastic Quetzalcoatlus, a huge pterosaur, will actually attack you if shot at. This came as a surprise to me the first time I set out to hunt one- I shot at it, expecting it to change direction and fly off, but no- it roared loudly, and swooped down, coming to get me! AAAGH! It doesn't do this with any of the other dinos, though. I suppose that's because they never attack it. Right, what else? I don't know what 'gameplay' means, so I'll skip that aspect. The conclusion is that Primal Prey is a fabulous one-timer, and I recomend you buy it if you are interested in hunting and dinosaurs.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Game, October 24, 2004
= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Primal Prey (CD-ROM)
This game is absolutely awesome! You go back in time through a time-teleporter, and hunt dinosaurs for people who want them. Some missions include getting a dead Tyrannosaurus rex for a guy who wants it's head, killing a Styracosaurus for a Chinese-food retaurant, getting live Utahraptors for a research center, and many, many, many (many many many) more. This game is really suspenseful, sometimes, when your hunting a dinosaur, you get stalked by a raptor, troodon, or an occasional T-rex. They growl when they get close by, so you know it's coming, but you dont exactly know when. It's a BIG surprise when you get attacked. I almost had a heart-attack when a utah raptor jumped me. The dino's in this game are Quetzalcoatlus, Triceratops, Styracosaurus, Gastonia, Utahraptor, Troodon, Iguanadon, Lambeosaurus and T-rex. The only bad thing about this game is that after you play about 2 missions, it goes back to your computer desktop and you have to re-boot the game.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A good game overall, August 4, 2006
A Kid's Review
= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Primal Prey (CD-ROM)
I got this game a couple years back for my big b-day. The first time I played it, I thought that it was the best game ever created. Then it crashed for the first time. I just figured that the computer overloaded because I didn't reboot the computer after the installation. I then figured out that the game crashes regularly after about 2 missions. This was a frustrating aspect, considering that you would expect to play for 3 hours straight and end up resetting the computer every 10 minutes. However, the game itself was really satisfying. Basically you're a hunter from the future. The Government finds out how to time-travel, so you get access to a portal by using private funding. You have only enough money left over to purchase a tranquilizing pistol. You walk into the portal and find yourself in a lush Cretaceous forest. You embark on your first mission, to retreive a live Gastonia for "Sunstorm Interactive". You quickly discover that this a dog-eat-dog world, where your movements could be monitered by a Utahraptor, or even worse, the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex. The game's weapons are similar to a Star Trek movie, with a tranq-pistol [as I mentioned earlier], a shotgun, a sonic blaster, an electron gun, a tranq-rifle, a sniper rifle, a stasis gun, a shrink ray, and last but definetely not least the railgun. I wish that the game could have a variety of dinos, because there are only 9. They are [I will list from least to greatest] Troodon, Gastonia, Utahraptor, Quetzalcoatlus, Styracosaurus, Iguanodon, Lambeosaurus, Triceratops, and T-Rex. The AI is fantastic, with the carnivores hunting the herbivores [not just you]. Once the herbivores hear the call of an approaching T-Rex, they run in terror. The entire herd scatter until they regroup. Sometimes you'll be hunting at night with nightvision, which only allows you to see 10 feet in front of you. You suddenly hear a noise, but you don't know where it's coming from. I almost had a stroke when a Utahraptor ambushed me from behind. Another frustrating thing is that you'll kill a T-Rex, it'll fall silently to the ground. A minute later you'll hear a loud THUD from what was supposed to be the T.Rex falling to the ground. Overall I give this game a 3 out of 5. It was a good game, but it could've been better. Thanks, Sunstorm for making this game! Also I was hoping for a sequel to improve, but I guess it's not going to happen.
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