Exoprimal Review

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For a game with “Dino Forecasts” that warn the populace of thousands of dinosaurs about to rain out of portals in the sky, what’s surprising about Exoprimal is that it’s somehow even stranger than that premise would suggest. It’s a hero shooter that pits two teams of five against each other in dino-hunting war games, where they compete indirectly – but also occasionally directly – in separate parallel universes to see who can complete a grab bag of objectives faster. And sometimes they cooperate! It takes a lot of familiar elements from team-based multiplayer games like Overwatch and Team Fortress 2, and combines them with wave-based survival to create an experience that feels like its own thing, and a lot of fun if you’re able to find a well-balanced squad.

If it wasn’t already abundantly clear, Exoprimal multiplayer-only, but boldly, it’s a multiplayer-only game with the story and progression of a single-player game. The general set up of it all is the exact kind of silly sci-fi you’d expect: you and your squadmates are all trapped on a mysterious island where a catastrophe leaked dinosaurs into a near-future world. While your three squadmates collect data and try to figure out what the heck happened, you are whisked away by a malevolent AI called Leviathan to endlessly compete in a Dinosaur vs Exosuit themed war game, all for the sake of gathering combat data. It’s pretty clear this is where ChatGPT is headed, folks.

And it’s these war games that make up Exoprimal’s PvEvP (player-vs-environment-vs-player) multiplayer gameplay. You and another team rush to complete a series of fun, but initially limited objectives that range from simply killing X number of dinos, to capturing control points, to defeating an extra-beefy