GAMIN’ WITH GABE: ‘Ark: Survival Evolved’ boasts a myriad of weapons, enemies and options

GABE TOWNSEND

Ark: Survival Evolved is a first-person action-adventure survival game set in an open world. This game has incredible gameplay and is visually stunning.

Ark is currently in development and on early access which means there are constantly updates adding new items and adjusting certain elements of the game. Survival in this game consists of collecting resources and food, crafting tools, building houses, keeping warm, staying hydrated and, the biggest challenge of them, battling the dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs can be killed for resources or tamed for different uses like transportation through the air, water and on the ground. There are other uses for them like collecting resources and defending yourself and the home you build.

The game can get sort of grindy at some points but overall there is always something new to do and it usually lasts the perfect amount of time. The game play is well balanced. It doesn’t go by too quick and it doesn’t bore you with how long it is. There is a lot going on in this game. There are a lot of different things to do and craft. You can tame a T-Rex and then go and craft a machine gun and hunt a bear or a giant frog.

This game is something new and different. Something that is similar to other games but has its own spin on everything. Ark: Survival Evolved is available on Steam, Xbox One and Playstation 4 and looks to be released fully in 2017.