![]() Evolutions suffer from the same issue as most other systems: their novelty wears off too quickly. ![]() Equipping the bone set does turn you into a battering ram when fighting ships, but you’re still performing the same two attacks while occasionally dodging to avoid projectiles. They can also be upgraded using four types of nutrients gained from tasks or farmed from specific fish which you’ll find plenty of while exploring Port Clovis.Īlthough Evolutions have a visible impact on Maneater’s protagonist, they don’t do enough to shake up gameplay. You can also equip a couple of passive upgrades that increase health, gathered resources or let you swim faster. We liked using a mixture of bone Evolutions – which make the shark excel at dealing with boats –, bio-electric Evolutions – which stun nearby foes – and the shadow set’s tail Evolution which let us fire a ranged poison attack. You can mix and match items belonging to three different sets. Think of them as loot that lets you specialize, although, like with most things in Maneater, don’t expect much depth. Thankfully, using your in-built sonar makes grabbing them surprisingly easy and the game’s open levels are fairly straightforward to navigate.Īs you find landmarks, defeat apex predators and named hunters you unlock Evolutions for your shark. Each area is also chock-full of three types of collectibles, one of them – landmarks – contributing to directly growing your shark’s strength. You’ll endlessly bounce between killing helpless opponents and those that fight back. Maneater does a good job of showing how sharks aren’t adept diplomats but its missions seriously lack variety. These always involve devouring things like civilians, armed shark hunters, other wildlife, license plates or signs. Maneater’s core gameplay loop revolves around exploring seven of the map’s eight areas, one at a time, and completing a number of repetitive tasks. With the conflict established, you take on the role of the baby bull shark hell-bent on devouring things to grow in size and enact revenge. As he marks the offspring with a cut before throwing it back in the water, the small shark takes his hand as a souvenir. A run-in with the hunter cuts short the life of the mother shark that you control during the tutorial. But as much as Tripwire Interactive’s Maneater has its power trip moments, its lack of variety and disappointing combat struggled to keep us invested during our 15-hour playthrough.Ī revenge tale at its core, Maneater frames its story as a TV show, set in the fictional city of Port Clovis, following shark hunter Scaly Pete and what grows to become his shark nemesis. After all, the sheer killing machine potential of a bull shark should easily make for an excellent protagonist in such a title. When you think about it, it’s a bit surprising that this premise took so long to be put into practice following 2006’s Jaws Unleashed. ![]() Maneater is an open-world action RPG in which you play as a hangry shark that eats a lot of stuff.
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