Ark: Survival Evolved

Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as ΛRK) is a 2015 action-adventure survival video game developed and published by Studio Wildcard. In the game, players must survive being stranded on an island filled with roaming dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players.

Why It Evolves

 * 1) A very fun, yet simple concept.
 * 2) Admirable graphics and texturing (though with some requirements), especially for a game that was published in late 2017 and even 2015 (which was when the game was released in early access).
 * 3) The dinosaur designs are really cool looking, some may even get even better redesigns, read WIE #14.
 * 4) You are able to customize your own avatar to your liking!
 * 5) A good amount of building materials both interior and exterior, whereas when an event for the game is out (e.x the Christmas or Fear Evolved events the game has) it adds tons of nice decorations to the game.
 * 6) The game also runs through some pretty smooth framerates, although on a good PC or console that has tons of storage room but still.
 * 7) The visuals are amazing for when a dinosaur or creature is injured, other examples include the fire breath from Fire Wyverns, and even punching splattering blood effects.
 * 8) Very fun boss fights (e.x. The Broodmother, Megapithicues, Manticore) and more.
 * 9) Beautiful soundtrack, composed by Gareth Coker in which he also worked on the soundtrack for other survival games such as Primal Carnage: Extinction.
 * 10) The animations for when a dinosaur levels up are really detailed, and shows off that creatures particular traits.
 * 11) * In fact, sometimes when a creature is killed they are even given their own death animations which mostly keeps things fresh (though not many creatures have them but still).
 * 12) The combat is intensive due to how the game picks a combat theme for each area on any map, and the soundtracks they use are also really fitting.
 * 13) A variety of weapons to use in the game, this also consists of many primitive or tek futuristic weapons that are really amazing.
 * 14) The artwork for the game looks nice using a variety of artistic colors to create.
 * 15) The environments in the game are glorious and really blend well with the game and creatures that spawn in the area.
 * 16) The game spawned three amazing DLC's including: Scorched Earth, Abberration, and Extinction, and every new DLC adds up to the story, displays new creatures, and add some new exploratory features aswell.
 * 17) The end game ascensions are unforgettable with amazing visuals.
 * 18) The creatures will constantly get updated, or known as "TLC's" with new designs (as stated above) and abilities like how they gave the Stegosaurus the ability to be able to impale players or smaller creatures with their tails and they also have an ability to be able to use their plates to armor them in order to reduce damage from other creatures, or the Raptors new pounce ability, to add on they were given another secondary ability where if their is a pack of them the highest level Raptor (The leader) is able buff the pack by giving them faster movement speed, and higher damage.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While the rest of the versions are great, the Nintendo Switch version is horrible and suffers from many problems.
 * 2) * Genesis Part 1 and 2 are bad DLC's, since they lack ARK's story of survival and due to the fact that they take out the games survival mechanics and are replaced.
 * 3) * The mobile port for the game, while still good, the graphics are a noticeable downgrade in comparison to the PC, Xbox One, and Ps4 ports.
 * 4) Despite their cool designs and abilities, the AI for Dinosaurs or creatures are fairly poor.
 * 5) The building system can be complicating to work with at times.
 * 6) The game does go through low framerates here and there such as the shadowing sometimes will become brighter and become dark again.
 * 7) * Due to this, there are some technical issues that occur here and there, though they are common in many other games so this can be excusable, also considering the fact that the game requires a lot in order for it to run properly sometimes.
 * 8) The graphics although still good in general, may look bad or at best mediocre if you have a bad PC or one that has trouble running the game.

Reception
Ark: Survival Evolved was met with a fairly positive reception from both fans and critics alike, and is considered one of the best survival games of all time. The game holds an 82% percentage rating on Steam indicating "Very Positive" reviews and a 4/5 on GameStop, on IGN the game was given a 7.7/10. On Metacritic critics gave the PC version a 70/100, and both the Xbox One and PS4 versions a 69/100 indicating "Mixed or Average" reviews, it also holds a 71/100 on Techspot. On IMDb the game was given a 7.1/10 rating.

The PC Gamer gave the game a 72/100 score with the consensus reading "A bloated, grindy mess, but so packed with options that a better game is hidden inside it." Gamereactor gave the game a 7/10.

Game rant placed the game at number 3 on their "10 Best Survival Games Of All Time" list, and was placed at number 10 on the Curlturedvulters "Top 27 Best Survival Games of All Time".

Trivia

 * The sound effects for the Raptors were also used in Jurassic Park.
 * An animated series entitled "ARK: The Animated Series" is currently in the works.

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