If you’ve ever dreamt of living out your days as the ocean’s apex predator, now’s yoౠur chance, as a grisly 𝓰new RPG called Maneater will be available to play in May.
The game starts players in the body of a baby great white shark that must fight to survive and eat its way into adulthood. As rows of🐟 razor-sharp teeth appear and you grow to full size, you’ll have the aꩲbility to prey on bigger and bigger prey until there is no living creature in (or out) of the ocean that you can’t eat.
It isn’t just about surviving, however. Tripwire Interactive, which is producing and publishing the g𝔉ame, wants players to understand the pure bliss that comes with reigning terror on anything within sight. As a result, a full range of controls are available. From thrashing your tail and jumping ওout of the water at blistering speeds to biting and throwing your prey around until they bleed out, there are countless options and things to do.
To complete the experience, the entire 🧸game is also presented as a nature do🌟cumentary — narration and all, with Chris Parnell of Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock offering commentary. Make no mistake, rather than the tranquil message of cohabitation that you might find on Planet Earth, this game is about the v✨iolence — which is made cleꦆar by the screams featured in the trailer.
The game isn’t an aimless sandbox, either. Although minimalဣ, there are objectives that must be completed. If you attack humans, for instance, bounty hunters and fleets of divers will come after you. One of the game’s main goals is to defeat all of the bounty hunters and teams that support them.
While the idea is certainly a fun one in🃏 conc💟ept, it’s difficult to say how Maneater will do once 🌞its released.Other games that let you play as a๊nimals, like Jaws Unleashed or Dogs Life, haven’t really served to solidify themselves as a viable RPG subgenre. Perhaps the mechanics and graphics of Maneaterꩵ will write a different story, but we’ll have꧂ to wait until May to know for sure.
Maneater will be available on Xbox One, PS4, and PC on May 22, 2💟020, while a Nintendo Switcꦏh release will be available later in the year.