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Here you can upgrade your shark’s abilities and evolve. Every area has a grotto that can be discovered. The gameplay is centred around grottos that act as hubs. Albino fishes and creatures also yield more nutrients. There are also a number of nutrient crates for an extra boost. Some areas and items need your shark to be a bit more powerful in order to reach them.Įating creatures gathers the nutrients needed to evolve your shark.

The game gives players plenty to do, with the water being packed with secrets and collectables. In the heat of battle, I still found that the combat lacked refinement. The camera does seem to work against you at first, and takes some getting used to. The game auto-targets your prey, but you need to be able to see it to attack it. You can also leap out of the water to attack targets on land or in boats. You can bite, lunge, tail whip and evade. My initial disappointment soon subsided as I got down to the messy business of day-to-day shark life and maturing my shark. The game is, however, as much about exploring the very interesting undersea world as it is about terrorising beachgoers. I found this sudden vulnerability quite jarring- enough to put the game down in frustration. Stumble upon an alligator and you are fish food, complete with passive-aggressive comments for the narrator. The youthful shark, far from being an apex predator, instead has trouble fighting off vicious little fishes. The intro sequence sets up some expectations that, when playing as a younger, less powerful shark, the gameplay no longer lives up to. Players then take control of the shark pup as it’s thrown back, the hunter vowing to catch it again, one day.

The prologue ends as a very young bull shark is unceremoniously cut from the belly of its mother. You also learn about swimming on the surface, with your iconic fin on display, flipping into the air to chow on otherwise hard-to-reach meals and whipping enemies with your tail. The game’s prologue puts players in control of an adult shark during a tutorial sequence that has you eating people, sinking boats and feeding on other fishes. Throughout the game, a dead-pan narrator adds a dynamic natural-history-style commentary to your underwater adventures.

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Tongue firmly in cheek, the developers present the game in the style of a lifestyle extreme-fishing TV show, complete with intro credit montage. It’s close to Ubisoft’s Far Cry games, but even that’s a stretch. Maneater is a very different sort of role-playing game, and unlike any other game I’ve played. At home in freshwater as much as much as in the ocean, these monsters of the deep are not fussy when it comes to mealtimes.

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Deep Silver’s bull shark simulator allows players to live out their very own Jaws fantasy.īull sharks, whilst not as well-known as their great white cousins, are more likely to take a nibble off of an unsuspecting swimmer than the sharks made famous by Spielberg’s 1970s movie. Ever wanted to swim about as a man-eating shark? Well now you can.

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