Exoprimal features a smart approach to storytelling in an online multiplayer game that games like Overwatch could learn from.
Exoprimal is a dumb video game — and I mean that in the most positive terms possible. It’s a bombastic dinosaur shooter that feels like it was the product of an eight-year-old boy explaining his idea for the most fun game he can think of. Thousands of raptors fall from portals in the sky. Katana-wielding robots chop down Tyrannosaurus Rexes. It’s loud and proud in its ridiculous blockbuster ambitions.
Recommended Videos Uncover the mystery Exoprimal dumps a lot of information on players before they can actually load into a single match. A long set-up introduces players to the basic conflict. In 2040, vortexes began opening up on Earth and genetically modified dinosaurs came spilling out of them. To combat that plague, humans began sending out squads of “exofighters” to fight back. In any other multiplayer game, that would probably be the only setup you get.
It’s a strong setup, but how do you pay that off in a match-based online game with no single-player content? Meet the Analysis Map. The story happens in a fairly linear fashion; the analysis map fully fills up in roughly 15 hours. That flow makes Exoprimal feel like it has a story-driven single-player campaign, even though its gameplay only happens in five-on-five online matches. Every round advances the story and deepens the wider world, rather than simply throwing players into the basic experience and battle pass grind we’ve come to expect from online games like this .
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