Cool Exosuit classes that are enjoyable to play as.
Mindless fun blasting dinosaurs and specialized Neosaur mini-bosses.
The 10-player PvE only missions against Super Swarms and boss fights are the best part of the game.
The world is under threat by mysterious vortexes summoning blood-thirsty dinosaurs all over the world.
Leviathan is a fun villain with such a delightfully condescending, sinister and obsessed personality.
The PvPvE gameplay loop of Dino Survival gets old really quickly, falling into repetitive formulaic battles.
One game mode alone is not enough to carry Exoprimals launch.
The malevolent AI Leviathan wants you to provide him the best combat data possible or die trying.
I came to agree withJez Cordens assessment that Exoprimals PvP elements drag the whole experience.
Disclaimer: This review was made possible thanks to a review code provided by Capcom.
The company did not see the contents of this review before publishing.
The Carnotaurus is one of many types of dinosaurs you will face in Exoprimal
The best character in the story is Leviathan himself.
Player) or a PvE (Player Vs. Enemy) mission.
If a player team is falling behind, Leviathan can grant them comeback mechanics to help them catch up.
Use the Dominator to take control of dinosaurs and sabotage the enemy team.
The other comeback mechanic is the Dominator.
Super Swarms and 10-player raid boss fights galore
This is the general gameplay loop of Dino Survival.
However, once you start making progress in Exoprimals story, the game mode will gradually start to change.
Co-ordinate with your teammates to withstand the onslaught of a Raptor Super Swarm.
Sometimes Leviathan will even cancel a match to teleport both teams to a special PvE-only event.
I have very mixed feelings about Dino Survival and Exoprimals gameplay structure in general.
Lets start off with the good stuff.
The special 10-player PvE events against raid bosses are a major highlight of Exoprimal.
For starters, I love the Exosuits you pilot in this game.
By far the best moments of Exoprimal are the dinosaur Super Swarm fights and the 10-player PvE-only events.
The satisfaction level you will experience in overcoming such overwhelming odds is tremendous.
The Triceratops is a fearsome foe that must be attacked from behind as its sturdy head is resistant to all forms of damage.
Remember when I talked about the awesome 10-player PvE-only missions, Neosaur fights, and the Super Swarms?
PvP woes ruin the fun.
Trigger Neosaurs rarely spawn, and the Dominators dont make any difference half the time.
In addition to dinosaurs, Leviathan forces Exofighters to fight against their fellow man in PvP death matches.
The formulaic, undynamic back-and-forth in these sequences is choring.
Exoprimal feels like the product of a team that hadn’t made a PvP game before.
Another problem with PvP is that thanks to the Exosuit upgrades I mentioned earlier, its incredibly unbalanced.
Even the awesome spectacle of a controllable T-Rex is not enough to deter the PvP problems of Exoprimal.
Exoprimal feels like the product of a team that hadn’t made a PvP game before this.
Unfortunately, this supposed quality-of-life improvement is merely a small band-aid on a gaping wound.
As noted, it incentivizes players abandoning matches.
The PvP missions are too simple, unbalanced and drag down the PvE aspect of Exoprimal.
If a player disconnects from a match, theyre replaced by an incompetent AI bot.
These bots are dumber than the dinosaurs, charging into the fray without any thoughts of self-preservation.
Sadly, nobody at Capcom seems to have realized this.
It is my firm hope that Capcom takes this game back to the drawing board and relaunches it as a purely PvE title to fulfil its true potential as a fun co-op horde game.
But then … the problem is the rewards do not matter all too much for winning or losing.
Everything feels low-stakes, pointless, and formulaic.
Every match plays out in exactly the same way, robbing the game of any sense of staying power.
At launch, Exoprimal is a hollow game, but can they turn it around?
Exoprimal Review: Should you play it?
At the end of the day, I was very disappointed in Exoprimal.
What sucks, even more, is that there is potentially an awesome game hidden beneath the surface.
There’s a frustrating and tantalizing layer of potential here not being realized.
Exoprimal, in my opinion, is a tough sell at its full $59.99 retail price tag.
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