ARK Park (2018) · Tastebuds

Engage in close encounters of primal species through a series of theme-park attractions and witness with your own eyes dinosaurs roaring in the wild.

Simulator Adventure Action vr onlyPlayStation VR, SteamVR

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Plot-driven, grave, unpretentious and earnest.

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Gaming NexusDave GambleApr 20186.5/10
The pieces were all in place for ARK Park to be something brand new and highly compelling in the VR market, but fails to maximize on the opportunity. While it can be spectacular to look at, the gaming elements just feel tacked on as if there was a checklist of features to build in, whether they made sense or not.
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ImpulsegamerEdwin MillheimMay 20182.8/5
Ark Park has the ability to make us feel small in what could be a dangerous world of dinosaurs. The moments are there, you just have to find them.
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TheSixthAxisJim HargreavesMar 20185/10
Instead of being a full-fat adaptation of Survival Evolved, ARK Park is more of a taster, chopping that game into smaller chunks, then isolating them. This isn't the same sprawling open world shooter – it's something much smaller and less substantive, though still looks to capture that core ARK essence. It may succeed on some level though, needless to say, those players who pony up £30 and go in blind could come away deeply dissatisfied.
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CryMor GamingMar 2018
ARK Park might fool you into thinking it's anything like ARK, but it's not. This is a barely-interactive VR Movie, with an extremely limited number of rooms to look at. Barely a game, barely even a experience, and highly reminiscent of the first VR games to come out.
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Cubed3Drew HurleyApr 20183/10
So many VR games are still just tech demos, sadly, but at least when they are just tech demos they have redeeming features. The prospect of ARK Park gave a chance for a VR experience that would show some stunning interactive experiences. It failed… and it fails in almost every area. It tries to adapt each key element of ARK: Survival Evolved and instead gives a horrible pale imitation of each, isolating each into a little slice, which doesn't live up to - or even represent - the original. The gathering is grindy, the crafting unrewarding, and the combat boring and repetitive. Not to mention as a VR game it suffers, too, as the controls are awkward, plus the price of the game is too high and the visuals lacklustre. The developer was so preoccupied with whether it could, that it didn't stop to think if it should.
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