Exoprimal reveals its massive twist too late in the game

polygon.com:

Exoprimal makes a terrible first impression.

Its mixed-media opening blends a breaking news segment with a corporate recruitment campaign, and somehow, the game manages to make its absurd (albeit refreshingly unserious) near-future premise borderline impossible to explain. But hold on, let me give it a go: Rifts in the fabric of space-time have brought hordes of dinosaurs to Earth, necessitating the manufacture of exosuits to repel the invasion, as well as an advanced artificial intelligence called Leviathan, whose prime directive is to train fighters and monitor the operation.

You play as Ace, a mute rookie who joins a patrol squad that quickly ends up stranded in an alternate timeline, where a rogue Leviathan is forcing exosuits to take part in endless wargames masqueraded as combat tests. Said wargames manifest as 5v5 player-versus-environment-versus-player multiplayer matches, where you push through a series of cooperative dinosaur defense objectives while translucent phantoms indicate the location of your human enemies, showing you whether you need to speed up or take it easy.

Complete your tasks, though, and suddenly both teams are thrust onto the same playing field as a final assignment looms, and this is where the magic happens. You can now interfere directly with the enemy by blowing up their payload or pulling off a sneaky gank. Oh, and if you pick up one of the randomly spawning “Dominator” power-ups, you can transform into a Triceratops, teleport into enemy territory, and wreak scaly havoc.

Unfortunately, in its slow-going opening hours, Exoprimal makes it frighteningly easy to write it off as another live-service hero shooter lurking in Overwatch’s shadow. The regiment of 10 exosuits you can hot-swap