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But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. Unlike the original game, which transported the player to a distant planet teeming with familiar-looking dinosaur life, this time a spaceship has crash-landed here on Earth and unleashed hordes of anachronistic thunder-lizards.
Stalk them through busy streets and back alleys or, for a different perspective, take the role of a hunted dinosaur and inflict as much destruction on the city as possible. Carnivores: Cityscape is the latest installment in Infogrames' hunting-action game series. Like the previous games in Carnivore series, Carnivores: Cityscape lets you assume the role of a hunter stalking a series of ferocious creatures, and it also adds the option to play as one of the dinosaurs.
Your dinosaur is dependent on strength and close combat fighting, and none of the available types had any kind of projectile-type weapon like poison spit, or something to speak of. Therefore, gameplay as a dinosaur was pretty vanilla: Go in, take damage at long range, and tear up the enemy from up close, eating the corpse to regain lost health. While entertaining at first, fighting as a dinosaur quickly lost its novelty. Imagine playing Half-Life with just the crowbar, and you'll get the idea.
Graphics are the best feature of Carnivores. Character skinning and movement are excellent, terrain and objects are professionally laid out, and the sheer detail of all the scenarios I played through was superb. There were a few minor visibility issues, but were only from specific angles and not necessarily noticeable from other places.
The only real problem with the graphics engine was the extremely long load times, even with an optimal system. Audio was fairly well done. The in game music was above average, with tense, tribal style techno beats and rather enjoyable background noise, such as the roar of a large predator off in the distance, and the rustle of bushes as you pass through them.
Some of the stock noises, such as the dinosaur noise when it reacts to seeing you, or some basic human sounds, quickly became repetitive when you've heard the same sound for the fifteenth time on the same level. Carnivores: Cityscape supports multiplayer games of up to 16 people per session, via LAN or the Internet. The game bundles with the Gamespy Arcade client, which can also facilitate finding games. Game styles range from cooperative to death match styles of play, and while no "bots" were available, the scenarios provided looked good enough to provide excellent room for mayhem.
I was able to set up a multiplayer session with no problems, and have the game post to the GameSpy network. Then I waited. Apparently, I was the only one in the Carnivores game room the three different times I attempted to play.
Maybe this was a fluke, but it seems that Carnivores , while nearly problem free in its multiplayer design, has yet to attract even a modest online following. Therefore, I really can't judge as to whether the game performs as expected or not. Carnivores: Cityscape , the third game in the Carnivore series, is visually and audibly pleasing, and professionally done, but for some reason, lacks replay value.
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