The Lost Wild
The Lost Wild is in pre-alpha and we can see how The Lost Wild will be making these dinosaurs smarter than many we have seen in the past
It seems like humans cannot get enough of their dinosaur killing and now we have The Lost Wild on the way to offer up another chance at this. They cannot just let these giant lizards stay dead and now Great Ape Games is looking to bring us one more experience with them. Thankfully, in The Lost Wild it is more about survival and using non-lethal means to make it to safety in a Jurassic Park kind of setting. This one just happens to be off in Japan where we will be running from all manner of dinosaurs this time. All with one more twist; they will be smarter and act closer to the animals that we assume they were when they roamed the planet.
Saying that they will be smart in The Lost Wild might be a bit of a misnomer here. The team behind the game is working on an AI that will have them plan, attack, and react to everything that we do in the game so we do not have just zombies rushing us with dinosaur skins on. They will get spooked, they will stalk us down, they will learn all of our tricks along the way so we cannot lure them in, and much more. Sometimes intimidating the beasts will be an option for us to make it through The Lost Wild as it can be a tactic in the real world. Given that we will need to survive all forms of things on the island and listen to the voice in our ear to make it out alive, so many tactics will be needed to make it easier. I know I am fully intrigued to see how this all shakes out.
The Lost Wild — Pre-Alpha Teaser
The Lost Wild is an immersive and cinematic dinosaur game that captures the reverence and terror of nature’s most magnificent animals. Our dinosaurs go well beyond simple monster mechanics, with built-in self-preservation and reactive systemic AI behavior.
We are able to leverage replayability through our novel take on combat and evasion mechanics. Contest your place in the food chain and intimidate, lure and repel animals using non-lethal weaponry, resulting in both physical and psychological encounters.
Explore abandoned Japanese facilities, nestled within a lush wilderness teeming with prehistoric life. Scavenge and find useful items to improve your chances of survival. A system grounded in risk vs reward. Risk prolonged encounters to discover more things, but also increase the chances of an encounter you may not survive.
Stealth, elude, and hide from dinosaurs that hunt you down. Create distractions and locate structures to gain an advantage. Use the items you have collected to give yourself more options in each encounter. Outmaneuver, run, lure, distract, and if all else fails, hide.
Withstand dinosaur attacks using intimidation. Temporarily scare off deadly predators using a combination of fire, non-lethal weaponry, and makeshift contraptions. The dinosaurs are smart and adaptive, but will also retreat at something that startles them. Watching them adapt and buying yourself time in each encounter is a core part of the experience.
Communicate with a mysterious voice over the radio. Use it to help navigate your way through the facilities and find a way to escape. Hear a slow feed of dramatic points and information that slowly builds a bigger picture and with it, increasing curiosity. Piece together the history of the island, the events that lead to the situation you are in, and face an emotional and impactful dilemma at the conclusion.
Does The Lost Wild sound like an intriguing game to experience or do you fear it will still boil down to the AI rushing in with no regard for its life? Will we have lethal options in the game or will it all be sneaking and non-lethal to keep us alive and moving? What do you suspect are the true motivations behind the building of the facility here and will it be something we have never seen before? Let us all know what is going on in your brain down in the comments and then feel free to discuss. If there is more for The Lost Wild to offer up, we will have it all here. Just be sure to keep checking back in for all of that and everything else that we will have to offer up along the way.
