Each area is richly detailed with some incredibly graphics for each environment. When you start to walk into a new zone you do have to overcome your fear of the unknown which once done will unlock the entire area and you can freely move through it. The map is extensive and the more your senses are upgraded, the easier it will be to access these areas. Missing a branch on a high tree swing, a predator jumping out at you by surprise and you don’t hit that quick time button quick enough, it’s all over and if your other clan members haven’t maintained their nutrition well, the game resets and it’s back to square one. Every move that you make can decide your fate and wipe out many hours of progress and you have to start the whole thing over again. This could be frustrating for fast food gamers, but if you settle in for a good session of exploration and slow down, the game offers a huge amount of replayability with hugely varying options everytime you start a new lineage. There is a 50 hour campaign that will keep you extremely busy figuring out how to do what and what you can and cannot ingest. Once you master this (and it takes a while!) the game becomes an exploration discovering animals, areas, loads of waterfalls and lush jungle and forest areas that have been lovingly crafted in this game. As you eat, drink and discover more you unlock skills and abilities to evolve and level up your characters and tribe. The easiest way to explain the premise is you are a primate ape that must establish a family in a forest/jungle and discover the world around you. The game is really hard to describe, it is part exploration, survival, adventure, yet also a simulation. After these entertaining moments and the game would reset I was immediately immersed in the idea of this game, the resetting of lineage and heralding back to a time before mankind, the game has finally evolved from PC to consoles so I was happy to be able to get my hands on a copy on Xbox One and fall from the heights of the forest myself. My partner has recently dived into Twitch, obsessed with watching people play games (although I am apparently so bad that watching me is painful? Feel the love!) I emerged into the living one night to watch him watching a Twitcher playing this game and failing time and time again, completely wiping out the entire family due to disease, malnutrition, failing at the auto swing and plummeting to their death from a high point. This game was introduced to me in a really odd way.
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