Carnivores: Ice Age 12+

This game is, as the title suggests, great. But it’s so unfair to the player. The yeti is the most high rank creature, and costs 1000 points (twice the amount of the rex) yet gives half the points of the rex. Every species does in fact give little points for the creature your killing. They also mainly act the same, with little variety, how they just mostly always run and not kill you unless you teleport on top of them, or if their a carnivore just use the allosaurus AI where it runs away at a certain distance except from the yeti. The health is also strange, making the wild boar need the same amount of sniper shots to kill as the gigantoraptor for some reason. Some creatures don’t look like they can easily survive in that place, like the archaeopteryx which looks like it would fit the first game more. Most don’t go in the water (which makes sense as it would be freezing) but that just makes it easy to farm points like with the yeti. However, it is an amazing game, and deserves to be played. I think a cool feature to add is hypothermia, where it’s a bar which very slowly decreases (maybe takes 10 minutes) and when it finishes, it kills the player, making hunts feel terrifying that you’ve got to get as much points as possible before an inevitable death. I hope the problems with the game get fixed, and once again, good job Tatem Games (I think I spelt it right, I may be wrong), this game is great!

A long time ago, I submitted a very enthusiastic review asking for a graphics update to carnivore ice age, which I am happy to say came through with the water design and look.

The only other flaw I would point out is the ai of the smilodon and cave bear. Surely as the ice ages most terrifying animals, their instinct, at least appropriately in the theme of hunting dangerous animals, would be to hunt you right back. Instead one pot shot at them and they run for the hills, compared to the other carnivores and the paraceratherium that take being shot at as a personal insult.

Please could you fix this so that the cave bear and the smilodon go on the attack like the other carnivores if they are attacked and/or detect the player.

In addition, would you guys consider porting this and dinosaur hunter to larger consoles like Xbox and PlayStation, so we can see and bask in the ambience on the big screen? And perhaps also add a story mode to both to really expand on the world building like the old PC games?

Otherwise a fun distraction and beautifully realised even as a nearly thirty something year old port - I always tranquilise them, never kill.

Played this game loads when I was younger, loved it. Can’t wait to play again