![]() The dinosaurs of Second Extinction are far from normal. ![]() All this provides freshness and longevity to the game and also helps set it apart from other group survival shooter clones from the last few years, such as World War Z. ![]() You can also upgrade weapons over time to reinforce the ways you like to play. Rosy has a minigun and electric traps, but she’s on the slower side, so she might be best for defensive setups and supporting. For example, Amir, equipped with a grenade launcher, is useful for clearing out buildings and big clumps of raptors, but he struggles if isolated or finds himself up against one of the bigger enemies. So, unlike Left 4 Dead, different playing styles and strategies are available to suit you and your group of friends. The game currently provides 5 different characters, each with their own unique set of abilities and weapon types. However, where Second Extinction really flourishes is in its co-op action. If playing solo it is very easy to become overwhelmed, but it is also a lot of fun to try to break out of moments of seemingly inevitable doom, and it makes it all the more rewarding when you do manage to scrape through by the skin of your teeth. Once you add the “oh shit” sightings and break-ins of the bigger dino threats, you’ve got quite the neat little package going here. You’ll find them suddenly tunnelling out of the ground and jumping all over you while special types of raptors are simultaneously screaming for more reinforcements to send things out of control. The way in which dinosaur hordes often break the silence and suddenly swarm you is brilliantly executed. The Left 4 Dead -like chaos and heart-pounding action is certainly Second Extinction ’s strongest suit. But all that doesn’t matter too much since the one thing you are actually here for anyway (dino-blasting action!) is plenty of fun on its own. Even the varying objectives themselves are for the most part quite generic and similar: go here, turn on this thing, find this thing, wait out this timer, etc, etc. I’ll keep it as reductive as that because that is more or less all there is to it. The concept here is simple: drop into a world zone, head for an objective and complete it amidst an onslaught of raptor swarms, bull-charging Triceratops and occasionally, of course, the king himself: the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now making its way into Xbox’s Game Preview system, Systemic Reaction’s Second Extinction combines the group survival shooter franticness of Left 4 Dead with the dino-splicing action of Turok and the Jurassic Park films.īased on this description, don’t come into this expecting many new or ground-breaking elements, but plenty of chaotic fun is still to be had with Second Extinction ’s work-in-progress dino-blasting package. Life finds a way to swarm and overwhelm you with razor sharp teeth, acid spits and colossal kings of the jungle in the newly released early access title, Second Extinction.
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