Well as human nature has predicted when a game starts off with a rough Early Access launch people have to jump the gun and be quick to complain. I do also believe that the developers also kinda shot theirselves in the foot by setting a date before making sure that it can be met. Again not everything in life moves along smoothly without any problems what so ever.

Anyhow now that the tidal wave has hit and the waves are settling down I am ready to write my review after spending just over 10 hours in the game. I have not played ARK. Nor do I care if there is a hidden ARK menu in the game. It is afterall by the same developers. If you have assests readily available that are useable why not save yourself the time and money by using them rather than putting more hours into making something new that you already have. I started out on an official PVE server which did not go so well. I might as well have gone directly to PVP because it was basically spawn... get eaten by an alligator... respawn... get eaten by an alligator... respawn again... get eaten by an alligator... gah! respawn... oh look a sheep!... get ambushed from behing by a big snake! Yeah the world was harsh and I had a very hard time trying to learn the game while getting killed every 5 minutes. I think maybe I was just spawning in a very bad area. Once I got onto a private server things got a lot better. There was a small little village on the shoreline and the fauna was much more forgiving and not very hostile. There is a lot of very neat survival features in this game. A lot that is common in survival games and a few that are new to me. Though my survival game history is not very in depth mind you. I have dabbled with Dark and Light, DayZ and SCUM. Of those titles including this one, ATLAS has so far made the best first impression on me and has very good potential to consume many of my free time hours.

This is not a very in depth review with a lot of details. I just do not want to put in a lot of detail spoilers but simply leave a positive recommendation for a good game. Those of you that are survival veterans will pretty much know what to expect. For those that are looking into or new to the survival genre you will have a lot to learn and discover a lot of very neat features in a entertaining theme.

Well as human nature has predicted when a game starts off with a rough Early Access launch people have to jump the gun and be quick to complain. I do also believe that the developers also kinda shot theirselves in the foot by setting a date before making sure that it can be met. Again not everything in life moves along smoothly without any problems what so ever. Anyhow now that the tidal wave has hit and the waves are settling down I am ready to write my review after spending just over 10 hours in the game. I have not played ARK. Nor do I care if there is a hidden ARK menu in the game. It is afterall by the same developers. If you have assests readily available that are useable why not save yourself the time and money by using them rather than putting more hours into making something new that you already have. I started out on an official PVE server which did not go so well. I might as well have gone directly to PVP because it was basically spawn... get eaten by an alligator... respawn... get eaten by an alligator... respawn again... get eaten by an alligator... gah! respawn... oh look a sheep!... get ambushed from behing by a big snake! Yeah the world was harsh and I had a very hard time trying to learn the game while getting killed every 5 minutes. I think maybe I was just spawning in a very bad area. Once I got onto a private server things got a lot better. There was a small little village on the shoreline and the fauna was much more forgiving and not very hostile. There is a lot of very neat survival features in this game. A lot that is common in survival games and a few that are new to me. Though my survival game history is not very in depth mind you. I have dabbled with Dark and Light, DayZ and SCUM. Of those titles including this one, ATLAS has so far made the best first impression on me and has very good potential to consume many of my free time hours. This is not a very in depth review with a lot of details. I just do not want to put in a lot of detail spoilers but simply leave a positive recommendation for a good game. Those of you that are survival veterans will pretty much know what to expect. For those that are looking into or new to the survival genre you will have a lot to learn and discover a lot of very neat features in a entertaining theme.