![]() ![]() A dilophosaurus can blind humans with oily spit, pteranodons can pick up unsuspecting humans and drop them to their deaths, and-provided you have enough people to unlock him-the tyrannosaurus rex can gobble down humans in one bite. Their combat abilities seldom fail to impress. Their size and speed lets them prowl about with greater freedom, and their respective roars grant health boosts and highlight the locations of their mammalian adversaries. If it sounds like dinosaurs are a nasty bunch, they are. The sensation's at its worst (or best) in the jungle maps, where the dense foliage always threatens the possibility that a novaraptor might crash through the leaves and play a messy game of Operation with your bowels. Alone and armed with only your firearm and a melee weapon, each moment away from your crew is a countdown to death. The clumping makes for harrowing firefights, but Primal Carnage's design also manages to imbue routine respawns with a dash of the same suspense found in survival horror games. Being little more than mobile meatbags, humans in Primal Carnage must stick together in packs to ward off the significantly stronger dinosaurs. Play Indeed, it's the team-based strategies demanded by their vulnerability that makes human gameplay so memorable. ![]() Primal Carnage never bothers to explain the reasons for this showdown between the masters of two separate epochs, but you’re usually too busy ensuring your own survival amid the flurries of bullets and claws to care. Finish a match with this ragtag bunch and you'll slip into the talons of five playable dinosaurs, and thus each round of this exclusively multiplayer slaughterfest gains intensity from the juggle of munching on mercenaries in one round to pumping bullets in raptors in the next. Oh, there's still a spunky scientist running around in shorts, but watch out-she could teach Laura Dern a thing or three about wreaking havoc with a sniper rifle. In their place, there's a grizzled shotgun-toting Native American in war paint, a bare-chested commando, a stocky pyromaniac with a flame thrower, and a mustachioed trapper who doles out extinction with a net and knife. Gone are the lovable duo of paleontologists and the hotshot theoretician. ![]() ![]() Primal Carnage is Jurassic Park as directed by Michael Bay. ![]()
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