Primal Carnage is a game developed by Lukewarm Media, an independent company. The game's premise centers on a team of mercernaries being sent to an island to correct an experiment gone wrong. This takes the form of shooting up some dinosaurs. In the game, you get to play as four dinosaurs and one pterosaur. The basic point of the game is similar to
Team Fortress 2 and follows many of the same principles. However,
Everything's Better with Dinosaurs. Besides, who doesn't want to play as a big red
Tyrannosaurus rex chomping down on overconfidant humans?
“The Island”, a strange hidden world where man has taken the ultimate leap in
science, where the long lost wonders of the distant past have been recreated, wonders which walk hand in hand with atrocities of the darkest nature. At present the facilities lie destroyed and abandoned, all the experiments have ceased, the buildings empty, the screams... silenced. The most meticulous of plans could not prepare them for the horrors they set upon themselves, horrors
now running free across The Island.
The humans must reclaim the island they once owned, and destroy the creations that have turned upon them. But for the dinosaurs, the island is now their home, and they will not allow this to happen so easily. Two deadly predators from opposite ends of Earth's history clash on a tropical paradise. The question is: which one will come out on top? Well, that's up for you to decide...
The official site can be found
here
. Development was largely dependent on donations for some time, and those were encouraged with inside peeks. (Donations have now been closed, however.)
Contains examples of;
- Ax Crazy: The Pyromaniac comes across in his profile to be rather disturbing, to say the least.
- The Berserker: The Carnotaurus, since it is very fast and hits really hard, but lacks resilience.
- Chainsaw Good: The Pyromaniac has a "flamesaw" that's part flamethrower and part, well...
- Expy: Many of the Dinosaurs (and Pterosaur) are very similar to the Special Infected from Left 4 Dead. The Raptor is agile and can pin foes down like the Hunter, the Dilophosaurus has a spit that screws up vision like the Boomer, the Carnotaurus charges foes like the Charger, the Pteranodon can grab players and force them to move against their will/drop them into something nasty like the Jockey, and the Tyrannosaurus is big, strong and deadly like the Tank.
- Foe Tossing Charge: The Carnotaurus has this as special attack.
- Fragile Speedster: The Raptor.
- Friendly Sniper: The Scientist.
- Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: The dinosaurs were genetically modified to be more badass than their real-life counterparts.
- Giant Flyer: Pteranodon.
- Glass Cannon: The Scientist can use her sniper rifle to dish out heavy damage to dinosaurs at long ranges, but seeing as her melee weapon is the weakest of all, and her sniper rifle is a liability at closer ranges, she will get swamped quickly.
- Guns Akimbo: The Trapper has two pistols as well as his unique Netgun.
- Interface Screw: Both the Dilophosaurus' spit and the Pathfinder's flares can blind enemy players.
- Kill It with Fire: The Pyromaniac. He's called that for a reason.
- Lightning Bruiser: The Carnotaurus, only in a full charge though otherwise it's slower than a sloth walking his pet slug and weaker in attack than the carcass it heals from (those are obvious exaggerations but it is still the slowest walker in the game and does low non-charging damage).
- Mighty Glacier: The Tyrannosaurus, of course. He takes a lot to take down and is capable of One Hit Kills, but he's a nice wide target, you can see him for miles, he's slow and he can't fit into buildings.
- One-Hit Kill: One bite from a Tyrannosaurus is all it takes, and it can just step on humans, too. Fortunately, the humans have their own One-Hit Kill in the Trapper's Netgun.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The human faction. So far: a sexy scientist with a sniper rifle, a badass former US Army trooper, a Magical Native American tracker who believes Shotguns Are Just Better, an Australian poacher and an Ax Crazy Violent Glaswegian with a flamethrower-chainsaw. This trope is even called out in the description on the website.
- Stock Dinosaurs: The playable prehistoric reptiles include Tyrannosaurus rex, Dilophosaurus, Pteranodon, and a fictional species of Raptor. However, the somewhat obscure Carnotaurus provides somewhat of an exception to this rule (Carnotaurus is a secondary Stock Dinosaur opposed to the others). The known NPCs all fall in this category so far.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: The Pathfinder seems to believe so.
- Shout Out: All the playable dinosaurs are clearly Jurassic Park-based in some way or another. There have also been a lot of promotional images and videos showing Tyrannosaurus fighting (the now playable) Spinosaurus.
- Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying: This isn't meant to be scientifically accurate, of course, but the game partially subverts the trope...
- Ptero Soarer: On the one wing, the Pteranodon are naked, have pointed wingtips (although they're more rounded in the final model) and grasping feet, and a bit misproportioned (more so in their prototype model), but on the other wing, they are quadrupedal and toothless, and vault from the ground using their wings like real pterosaurs.
- Raptor Attack: The developers have invented a fictional species called Novaraptor ("New thief"), created in-universe through genetic engineering. They were still featherless and had anatomically impossible hands, but the developers fixed the hands after the community spoke out, and Pre-Order Bonus costume is accurately feathered◊.
- Tyrannosaurus and Dilophosaurus got their hands fixed as well. It is possible this may pass on to the other theropods.
- Tyrannosaurus rex: For the most part it's okay, what with the horizontal body posture and all that, but a few minor details leave, er, something to be desired. It's notably about twice the size of a real T. rex and has armor (this is Hand Waved as being genetic modification)
- The Dilophosaurus is a Jurassic Park-esque venom spitter, though thankfully it has no neck frill. Word Of God says it's because they were genetically engineered to be venomous. Unlike most Dilophosaurus in media, this one is nearly to scale to the real animal, and not the one from Jurassic Park.
- Averted with the Carnotaurus, which has the correct forelimbs (that is to say, no fingers and practically no arm movement at all.) and is depicted as a very fast hunter with a hard time turning, as according to recent studies.
- Super Spit: The Dilophosaurus has this ability, like it did in Jurassic Park.
- Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors: The classes were initially designed with this in mind, so that every dinosaur (and pterosaur) had a human class designed to take them down (and vice versa). However, this feature has been toned down. The various advantages some classes have over others are still present, but the game no longer adheres closely to the rock-paper-scissors system.
- Take That: Remember in Jurassic Park III how a Spinosaurus fought and killed a Tyrannosaurus rex? Not so lucky this time round...
- X Meets Y: Turok meets Team Fortress 2 (the human classes) meets Left 4 Dead (the dinosaur classes).
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