Primal Fears Reviews

Better than I expected. I enjoyed every second playing this game. Its not very hard even when you're on the highest difficulty. You get plenty of weapons to use against the creatures and plenty of money to be able to upgrade all weapons. Its not a very long game unless you're looking to get all achievements, you will have to grind kills for a little bit.

EDIT 1: See below for updated review EDIT 2: See below that for final review SEE END FOR TL;DR Original Review: There's a lot here that could make this a great game but, sadly, it just doesn't fulfill its potential. The environments look cool but the level design is poor. The variety of weapons seems great but the ones I've tried so far are severely underpowered, even with some upgrades applied, not to mention you have to buy ammo at shops throughout the levels or at base camp - there are no pickups besides health and money. I had to lower some graphics settings but gameplay seems fairly smooth with those changes. You can rotate the camera, which is important since there is no dithering allowing you to see your character behind obstacles. The addition of moveable objects seems cool at first until you get stuck by these items when trying to escape a fight. There's no map of any kind and no indication of where you're supposed to go or what you're supposed to do to progress. This can be very frustrating, especially given the aforementioned poor level design. The story is beyond basic, told through a series of newspapers you find throughout. Important to note that reading a newspaper, as well as using the shop, doesn't pause the game and leaves you vulnerable to attack. Overall, I really want to like this game because it has a huge amount of potential but the truth is there are a ton of games that do this genre better. At this point, I'm not sure I'll bother trying to finish the game, though I may come back to it at some point to give it another try. Sorry DnS Development - not recommended. Update 1: So, I decided to give this game another shot and now I've played a bit over 11 hours total. Sadly, my initial assessment stands and I still cannot give it a thumbs up. I've tried every weapon and all of them have some problem limiting their effectiveness. Not enough ammo (e.g. Nailgun, Flamethrower, Shotgun), too long to wind up (e.g. Minigun), too slow (e.g. Shotgun), etc. Even with most/all available upgrades, none of the weapons are particularly effective. In the end, I keep falling back on the Assault Rifle - the first weapon you start with - which, in many situations, is simply not powerful enough. Also of note is the totally useless melee attack which is very slow and your endurance bar only allows three swings before having to rest for it to refill. The level design is often frustrating, forcing you to (very slowly) rotate the camera to be able to see. There are a number of places - locks, switches, etc. - where you have to hold down "F" and wait for a progress bar while you inevitably get attacked and have to start over. The same endurance bar that affects melee combat also limits your ability to run to about 2-3 seconds before having to wait for it to refill. This makes it difficult if not impossible to escape a hoard of enemies while you reload your weapon. I had really hoped I was being overly negative with my earlier review but I quickly became frustrated by all of the same issues I had before. I just can't recmmend this game when there are so many better games in the top-down shooter genre. Update 2: Final Review Yeah, so something made me decide to come back to this game yet again and, while there's still a great deal about this game that I think could easily have been done better, I'm cautiously changing my review to a thumbs up. For some reason, I really felt the need to come back and finish this game, whether simple completionism or what, I'm not sure but I just don't like leaving games unfinished. I will now say that this game is not absolutely terrible. Yes, there are many games that do the genre better and yes, if you haven't played a lot of them, there are others you should buy first. However, some of my problems diminished as I continued through the game. For one, the level design improves to some extent in later levels. Also, getting used to rotating the camera as well as avoiding moveable objects makes levels easier to navigate, though it can still be frustrating to get stuck on objects when trying to flee from the center of a battle. As for my complaints about the weapons, as I learned to more effectively use some of them and switch between various weapons, it definitely made combat easier. I was still unable to ever effectively use melee combat and I believe that ability could just as well have been left out as made so useless. The admittedly sparse plotline is fleshed out just enough by the scattered newspapers to drive the game to the end, just don't expect anything too engrossing. TL;DR While this game suffers from many issues that prevent it from filling its potential, I still found it worth playing through to the end. There are certainly better games out there in this genre but, if you've played most of them and are looking for something different, you may find enough here to keep you interested for a short time. It's not a long game and doesn't really have any replayability (short of higher difficulties) so pick it up for a couple bucks on sale if you can - it's simply not worth $10. I'll give it a cautious thumbs up but read through the whole review if you'd like to know some of the issues the game has.

l love so much top-down shooters, but this one unfortunately came out in unpolished stage and still doesnt have any serious fixing updates. -Horrible camera that doesnt follow your cursor like in other games. Instead you just need to press... Q for left and E fo right... -Collisions problems: sometimes you get stuck, enemies attack u through walls/doors; -Too few weapons and you can take them and upgrade only in terminals, which is not much realistic (what this game is trying to be) at all; -Not much enjoyable shooting: it's hard even to shoot the weakest zombie, which require more than 3 bullets from max upgraded weapon; -These annoying spawning "black holes" that suddenly appear just in front of you... hate them so much -Too much darkness... too much; -Sometimes reloading just stops and l need to press "R" for a few seconds again... -Physics of items are still not finished. You need to see this actually when boxes are between you and a zombieж -Nobody plays it and they still didnt make "Remote play" available. All the developer needs to do is just tick the box "remote play" in Steamworks page of the game, but the developer decided not to. Also when you open the game via steam begins endless loading of DirectX, so l have to close the game and open again and everything start to work xD Never saw anything like that. It can be fixed easily too by checking/unchecking box in Steamworks

A little difficult to adjust to the movement dynamics at first. Once mastered, its mildly entertaining. Reminds me of "Alien Breed" without the controller support. Not bad overall, get it on sale and with a little time invested, you wont be disappointed. 3 of 5

A top down shotter. The graphics are decent but with collision bugs: the foes can pass and to attack through walls and doors. No zoom camera. The mechanics is optimized to cooperation and solo mode is frustrating: ammo recharge and the melee attack are too slow and the sprint too short. There are few types of monsters and ever make ambushes in the same places. In highs difficulty levels the success depends on reserves of turrets and mines, weapons do an exagerated lesser damage and the explosives are very dangerous at close range. The inventory space is not logical: you can carry really big guns but few of other items more needed as ammo and no portable medkits. With a turn based system and skills or perks would be better. The campaign is short, with few maps and arenas; buy only with a huge discount.

What can be said about primal fears? well it is an updated version of dead hoard, there just isn't really much change with this game there are only one or two variations of specimens that have a different size and skin texture but are still the same well let's go through the list. Pro's -More Weapons! -Hub World(Camp) -An Arena -Moveable Props Con's -Moveable Props...(they can get in your way) -Not enough enemy variation -Enemies absorb way to many shots. -Limited sprint 3 seconds(can't roll)useless since most enemies can catch up to you anyway. -Always night. -Cannot shop in peace(shop menu doesn't pause the game also cannot buy medkits) -Re-used enemy jumper(which was in dead horde) -Level design is dull and cliche'd. -One level can take from 15 to 30 minutes to finish depending on difficulty. -Melee weapon is useless in any situation and serves as a joke when you could be spriting away for 3 seconds. Overall i would say this is an avarage shooter, no real innovating ideas or any new concepts, just reused boring ideas, if you are interested in shooters and just want some mind numbing fun, buy it, if you are looking for something new and interesting, don't buy it. if you want something similer try nation red or zombie shooter which will prove more fun.

Let me give you some excellent advice: If you want to play this game, go buy: Shadowgrounds http://store.steampowered.com/app/2500/ Shadowgrounds: Survivor http://store.steampowered.com/app/11200/ or Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded http://store.steampowered.com/app/33120/ instead. Those three are all similar to Primal Fears, but far superior in pretty much every way. Just buy one, two or all three of the above mentioned games. Leave Primal Fears alone, it's not worth your money.

I thought this game was well worth the money. Id say 4 dollars, Max if your a solo player. I could see a bit more if you buy it with friends. Very good game with a odd story, its similar to How to Survive with a bit of dead space? For 4 bucks I would totally say get this game, although I am unsure just how much replayability there is, if any. The story is hectic and would make no sense, its good writing but what government lets a third party spray "Gas" all over the city, without testing it on humans? Not the worst thing in the world but deffinately not something to scoff at either, do your writing better! I really like the controls and was surprised at how fluid they were, and how you had to be facing a direction to move faster, otherwise you walk. Makes for nice "Back up to wall and shoot everything epicly" scenes. Using the E and Q buttons you can change the direction of the camera, and while the camera is very high up and sometimes very restricting, it was well done and made me feel like any time I tapped E or Q by accident that it was a whole new experience, which it wasent but feels that way. The monsters got annoying a big part of the issue for the game for me. Half the guns are useless, as the only ones I used were the M4 and the Launcher, an entire clip kills two basic guys... normal difficulty. It was crazy because if 6 guys came up to you, then you spent 5 minutes trying to run back and shoot then run and shoot. Not much strategy. Also you knew every trap, almost every secret is hidden by a onslaught of enemies waiting for you to pass the invisible line. It was annoying because it was expected everytime. Id say 7/10 for the type of game its meant to be, and the price of 4 dollars. Any cheaper and id rate it .5 higher for every buck less.

Dead Horde is without a doubt one of the most appalling games I have ever played. Primal Fears is apparently from the same people, but lo and behold, this one is actually playable! I'm not yet sure just how much LONG-TERM playability it's going to have for me - I suspect it'll get repetitious in no time - but thus far it's simple, dumb fun, and even a teeny tiny bit atmospheric to boot. Far from the best game I've ever played, but far from the worst. Heck, so far I'm enjoying it way more than Killing Floor, which is just mindless shooting followed by mindless purchasing followed by more mindless shooting. Sure this one is much the same deal, but at least it has enough pretence to attempt the semblance of a plot, however slight it may be. And that's all I ask for in a game: the slightest semblance of a plot. And a bucket-load or two of hefty violence never hurts, either. 1.4 hours up on the clock already; I reckon I'll manage at least 5 or 10 before this game runs its course for me. Definitely worth the sale price of $2.49, though they're surely taking the mickey with the normal price tag of $9.99. Get it on sale! Kill giant insectoid things rather than the usual boring zombies!! Keep your expectations low, and you may actually have a passably good time!!! Verdict: 6.5/10.

Primal Fears Primal Fears is a top down shooter that has you fighting mutants of various types and sizes. Your travels will take you through 7 different levels and can be played on 4 different difficulties. It can also be played with up to 4 friends which makes it even better. After you go through the campaign mode you can't keep racking up your score by playing the arena matches they have. Now I know this game got horrible reviews and the metacritic rating sits at 39 but you know after playing it for a good 10hrs, I've come to believe the critics don't know crap. Yes the game has some flaws but I didn't find anything that made this game unplayable. It's action packed, has many weapons to buy and upgrade, 4 levels of difficulty, and is just fun as hell to play with friends. There are about 9 different enemies types in the game. They range between regular enemies, mini bosses, and big bosses. Further in the game you will get a mixture of them all at any time. Design and graphics are subpar and don't really seemed polished but this doesn't break you away from the gameplay. I used a controller playing it as it was a little easier for me but you can use mouse and keyboard. Every once and a while when I hit reload it would make the sound but wouldn't actually do it. This really didn't bother me to much when playing. There isn't a story to follow so if that's what you're looking for you won't find it here. It has a few glitches I've seen like characters weapons floating behind or next to them, It froze up on me once and I had to restart my PC because it wouldn't close. It also dropped to like 1 fps on me at the end of one level which I just restarted at the checkpoint and it never did it again. These minor issues never made me want to stop playing and never ruined the fun for me. If you own this game or have been thinking about getting it don't believe the metacritic avg. score and play it. It has it's flaws but overall a great game for you and some friends to burn some time on. Bear rating 7.5/10