ARK 2 is the sequel to ARK. Every aspect of the ARK series has been rethought and redesigned in this sequel. The game will be arriving on PC and Xbox Series X and S.
Storyline
Starring Vin Diesel as legendary ARK hero Santiago, experience an adventure as he seeks to protect his daughter Meeka from the ghosts of the ancient past and visions of a new future.
Suddenly awakened on a strange primal world filled with dinosaurs and humans struggling for dominance; you must piece together the history of how you arrived there, team-up with legendary heroes, and confront powerful dark forces seeking to control the fate of all life.
Gameplay
The action in ARK 2 will be third-person only, so you’ll be able to watch your character undertake a variety of traversal activities, from basics like mantling and sliding to more advanced free-climbing, parkour, and swinging.
Combat in the game emphasises on player skill in melee encounters, and you’ll have to learn to dodge and block as well as making use of your character’s special attacks. Hostile ‘Aratai’ hunt & attack you riding their own tamed creatures, as they seek to drive human interlopers from their world. Animals now track and hunt by sight, sound, and smell. Hide from predators with visual camouflage and environmental obstructions, and learn to mask your scent. Dynamic pathfinding enables creatures to intelligently manoeuvre around obstacles and player-built structures.
Item-crafting has also been given added depth for this follow-up, with a wealth of component combinations allowing for the creation of unique gear. Utilising different modules and materials in crafting will have both a functional and cosmetic impact on the finished item. With multiple options of resources found in unique regions of the world.
See foliage react convincingly to passing wildlife, water flow downstream around obstacles, volumetric storm clouds, localised weather systems, smoke and particles affected by physical forces, and much more. Fundamental advancement of lighting systems enables a more photorealistic day-night cycle, generating real-time ambient lighting & shadows within both natural and player-constructed environments. Natural and unnatural occurrences are always happening across the open game world, independent of your presence. Your choices in deciding whether to interact with these events will yield rewards or challenges.
Gain both experience points from gameplay, and knowledge points by accomplishing key objectives and overcoming unique challenges, to progress along a massive skill tree filled with new active abilities, perks, and passive benefits.
Features
- Multiplayer, online co-op, and single player
- Fully stackable, user-created Mods for new creatures, items, gameplay features, and maps are now distributed across all platforms, along with support for modded unofficial servers
- Building templates to save and share structure designs
- Co-op structure building with blueprints
- Advanced character traversal mechanics like mantling, free-climbing, parkour, sliding, and swinging
- Target-lock, blocks, dodges, combos, staggers, special attacks, emphasising player-skill-based action.
- Explore a mysterious, chaotic world where native flora and fauna are being overrun by invasive primaeval creatures from an extinct Earth
Final Words
People interested in this game should definitely be warned that this game will be containing scenes of mature content. Mature Content, specifically violence, can occur against other players or creatures within the fantasy setting of our game at any time and is not gated. This would primarily be demonstrated when players use their fists, melee weapons, ranged weapons, or tamed creatures against other players and/or other creatures. Violence may also be demonstrated when wild npc creatures choose to attack player characters and/or other wild or tamed creatures within the game world. Even though there isn’t an official release date for this game do you think you will be amongst the players patiently waiting for this game to release?
