Scorched Earth really brings out the “S” in survival, because you really feel as though you are just a small cog somewhere in an vast ecosystem, and that just about everything around you is higher up on the food chain than you are. That would be our dinner for the evening. Wait…a soft, innocent looking cute thing hiding out within close proximity to me? I promptly leapt at the cute creature and bashed it brains out with my bare fists. Literally anywhere I looked, I saw something large, lumbering, and terrifying-a giant multi-horned beastie here a large flapping bee-like monstrosity there a cute, cuddling-looking big eared creature, semi-concealed in some nearby bushes. No sooner had we both spawned in and began looking for food and water than we noticed that the game’s primeval creatures are everywhere. Not only that, but hydration is much more of an issue in Scorched Earth than it is in vanilla Ark. My friend and I soon found out that in Scorched Earth, the environmental weather factors are also a dangerous threat. Well, this is what happened…įirst of all, Ark, like many other survival games out there, is a game where you start off with nothing (in this case merely your underwear), and have to scavenge for your basic needs (health/food/thirst), build a base, craft weapons, equipment, and clothing, and survive against the denizens of the land. ![]() Call me a masochist, but I secretly wanted to test our ample survival mettle, honed and forged by many hours of Rust play, against the harshest Ark experience that could be offered up. What I conveniently didn’t tell him was that unlike vanilla Ark, which takes place on a tropical island, Scorched Earth’s setting is based within highly inhospitable desert. Since I’d read that Ark’s DLC, titled Ark: Survival Evolved – Scorched Earth DLC, was a much more PvE experience compared to the vanilla game, which is more PvP, I convinced my friend to also pick it up during a recent sale. Ark has just recently released a few pretty hefty updates, and so I became more interested in playing it. However, we’ve been playing other survival games such as Rust, 7 Days to Die, and Miscreated, as of late, and haven’t had the time to really try anything else out. Whether it be post-apocalyptic zombie survival ( H1Z1, Day Z, 7 Days to Die), purely post-apocalyptic ( Rust), science fiction survival ( Osiris – New Dawn, Empyrion – Galactic Survival), or survival horror ( Outlast, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard), survival games are more popular than ever and see no signs of slowing down.īut what if you wanted a survival game that evoked the style and sensibilities of Jurassic Park, where you had to struggle against all sorts of cool dinosaurs roaming the lands? Well, the fine folks at Studio Wildcard have an answer for you in a game called Ark: Survival Evolved.Ī gaming friend and I actually picked Ark: Survival Evolved up a few months ago. ![]() ![]() I know, I know…it seems like every time you turn around, someone else is coming out with yet another survival game. Ark: Survival Evolved – Scorched Earth DLC
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