Monday 12 October 2015

LO3 - ARK : Survival Evolved analysis

ARK Survival Evolved

ARK is a adventure, survival game with dinosaurs. It represents survival as you have a lot of things to keep an eye on to stay alive such as warmth, hunger, thirst and diseases, also you have a significant amount of dinosaurs out there trying to kill you. It is one of the top survival games apart related titles such as Minecraft, but ARK has other variants that others don’t have going into the prehistoric dinosaurs.    

There is no narrative to the game but you have an aim of staying alive and taming dinosaurs to help you along the way, building bases and collecting and creating supplies to help you stay alive and allow you to do more things. You’re creating the story as you go, and everyone’s is different. The audience controls the game, there fore allowing them freedom to do what they like, free roam games have grown in the past few years in popularity. 
   
The player is able to create the character themselves, it is fully customisable, you are able to change everything on the player, there are no other characters with in the game such as an NPC, the only other characters are the dinosaurs, which are skinned to look like the actual dinosaur it is meant to be.  The customisable character doesn’t affect the players attributes and symptoms of the players. All the characters are exactly the same apart from the appearance. The characters are meant to be like real life people would be, but time is sped up so the character gets a lot hungrier and colder quicker than normal but this is because it gives you more of a challenge to watch out for while you play. 

The challenges in the game are to keep yourself alive against the environment and dinosaurs which are out to kill you   

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