![]() ![]() 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. Reviewed on: Intel Core i9 9700K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 2070, Windows 10.A low-stakes team shooter where racing to slay dinosaurs has its wow moments, only most of them are locked behind a baffling disrespect for one's time. ![]()
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