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Primal Carnage: Extinction

Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4
Genre: Online Multiplayer
Developer: Circle 5 Studios
Release Date: Nov. 2014

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'Primal Carnage: Extinction' (ALL) Announced - Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on Oct. 27, 2014 @ 7:02 p.m. PDT

Primal Carnage: Extinction is a class-based online multiplayer shooter built on the Unreal Engine, featuring fast-paced combat, diverse environments, and over-the-top action.

On a mysterious island overrun with prehistoric monsters, you can choose to fight as a variety of legendary dinosaurs or to join the human mercenary team armed with a unique, distinctive, and destructive arsenal aimed at making these bloodthirsty beasts extinct once and for all. Will you use a sniper rifle or flaming chainsaw to bring these hulking creatures to their knees? Will you swoop, stomp, or chew through the puny human intruders?

The only real question is, can you survive?

Key Features:

  • Twelve Diverse Environments - Extinction features twelve unique environments, including 3 all new maps: ‘Transfer’, ‘Verdant’, and ‘Contingency’.
  • Two Gamemodes At Launch - Primal Carnage features two gamemodes: Team Deathmatch and Get to the Chopper, an objective-based gamemode
  • Unique Dinosaur Gameplay - Experience the relentless power of 9 unique dinosaur classes. Sneaking, blinding, charging, eating, or flying- there’s no shortage of ways to destroy the enemy team.
  • 5 Human Classes - Survive the island as one of 5 distinct human classes. Obtain and equip new weapons and items using a loadout system.
  • Steam Economy Support - Players now have a variety of outfits, weapon skins, hats and other accessories to choose from for their human characters as well as quills, feathers, spikes, chains, horns, and a variety of new skins to attach to their dinosaurs.
  • Item Drop System - The game will now reward players These items can be traded and sold through the Steam marketplace!

A Six Month Pipeline of Content to Follow- We have a robust list of features in development in order to provide players with new reasons to play over time:

  • New weapons adding variety to gameplay
  • New skins for both human classes and dinosaurs
  • New cosmetics and customization options for players
  • New environments for play
  • New gamemodes pitting humans vs dinosaurs

Players that pick up Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam before the end of November will get the new “Volcano”Spinosaurus skin for free and will get access to the Beta on November 10th. The PS4 version of Primal Carnage: Extinction is scheduled for release Q1 2015.

What Happened to Primal Carnage: Genesis?

Primal Carnage: Genesis began development at a time when the Primal Carnage brand and Lukewarm Media were being pulled in different directions, and forces within the company could not completely agree on which project to pursue. There was a strong concept for single-player narrative-driven Primal Carnage game, and there was an exciting opportunity to develop a game for the PS4, built on the brand new Unreal Engine 4, but ultimately the project was too large in scope for Lukewarm Media to pursue, and the project was unofficially put on hold at the end of Summer 2013.

Plans for the brand changed considerably after Lukewarm Media quietly transitioned ongoing management and development of Primal Carnage to Circle 5 Studios, a distributed network of developers and artists that had grown out of the modding community. Circle 5 felt that they were not in a position to pursue the extremely ambitious Primal Carnage: Genesis, but the company saw the opportunity to start over with the brand and to launch a multiplayer sequel to the first Primal Carnage on the PS4 platform with our friends and co-developers: Pub Games, a Melbourne-based team that had previously assisted development of the original Primal Carnage.

Speaking on behalf of the Primal Carnage team (both old and new), we were blown away by the support Genesis received in the last year and a half, and if everything goes well for us with Primal Carnage: Extinction we would definitely consider pursuing Genesis. For the moment, however, Genesis is effectively still on hold.


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