![]() ![]() There’s plenty of exploration and collectibles to find as well. You can mix and match mutations to your heart’s content, creating whatever mutated monstrosity that you want.Īs fun as it can be, combat isn’t the only thing to do in Maneater. Have you ever wanted to play as a shark that turns into lightning? Well you can do that here. You can be a savage looking monster with bone armor, or play around with bio-electric teeth. These mutations not only look awesome, but are an absolute joy to use. These mutations are where the RPG elements come into play, letting you customize your shark with various power-ups and abilities. Each kill nets you more experience and more resources towards mutations. However, you aren’t eating everything for no reason. One lapse in judgment can be your end as the more you kill, the more they begin to hunt you. Once you get the hang of things, you’ll find yourself grabbing hunter after hunter, as the water turns red from your massacre. The combat becomes a graceful dance as you dive and leap out of the water, waiting for the perfect moment to grab a hunter and drag them underwater. ![]() There’s a certain rush as you dodge harpoons and bullets while circling the hunters. This is where the combat becomes truly interesting. However, the real fight begins when the hunters show up in their boats. ![]() While swimming, humans are an easy target. Once you get tired of eating other fish, you can move on to the main course: man. After they miss, you’ll have a small window to grab them and thrash them around, usually resulting in most of their health gone. The predators thankfully have easy cues to show when they’re ready to lunge. You also have the ability to dodge, which you’ll have to use a lot. The underwater combat is simple, focusing on your shark’s bites with the occasional tail slap. Once you gain some levels and grow in size, you can begin to take on some of the surrounding predators. You can hunt anything around you if you have the skill, but expect to prey on smaller fish until you level up. In the beginning, you’ll truly feel small among all the predators in the water. It’s at this point you’re thrown into the open world and begin to consume everything in sight in order to evolve. Once caught, you realize the shark is pregnant, and you begin the game as a small shark pup. Eventually you get caught by Scaly Pete, the host of his own show, which is also called Maneater. You begin the game as a fully grown shark on a rampage in the fictional city of Port Clovis. Maneater is an open-world action RPG where you play as a shark out for revenge against the shark hunter that killed your mother. You can check out our original review here. While Maneater was initially released a year ago, the game now finds a new home on Nintendo Switch. A weird combo of Jaws and Grand Theft Auto, Maneater hits all the right marks and creates a satisfyingly odd game. You then realize that sometimes you don’t need fancy graphics or deep stories for a game to be good. Then there’s Maneater, a game that lets you play as a mutated shark eating anything in sight in an endless mission to become more deadly. Some developers use it to create games with beautiful graphics and complex stories. ![]() There are plenty of games that rely on realism to draw you in. ![]()
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