Previews: Men Versus Wild

By: Derek Yu

On: July 7th, 2011

Not sure how this escaped my sonar (insert canned laughter), but Depth is a team-based multiplayer game of scuba divers versus sharks. The goal of the divers is to stealthily recover sunken treasure before they get turned into chum. According to the game’s website the sharks are powerful but have limited visibility – they rely on movement and blood to track their prey. Each team has three classes.

On the other hand, Primal Carnage puts you in the role of either a mercenary or a friggin’ dinosaur. Each team has five classes, with the dino classes ranging from massive T. rexes to flying pteranodons to tiny “Compies”. No word yet on what the game modes are, although the website mentions “getting to and holding the abandoned facilities which are spread throughout the maps”.

Both games are being developed by small teams using Epic’s UDK. No release dates have been announced, but in the meantime, you can watch the footage I’ve embedded under the bloop:

Depth

Primal Carnage

Posted in FPS, Multiplayer, Previews | Tags: DepthTeam, LukewarmMedia

http://twitter.com/swaarm David Simmonds

Whoa, this sounds fucking rad!
Honest Guy

yeah! I agree… too bad is such a minecraft ripoff…
broAhmed

ಠ_ಠ
ConcernedDragon

Nevermind it seems a little more than just a homage to Cave Story? Make something original guys!
Foppy

The dinosaurs look a bit helpless, against men with machine guns and grenades. I was expecting Jurassic Park scenes where people are hiding under tables for scary dinosaurs, but the video looks more like a typical hectic FPS.
Angel Eyes

Compies are the worst. I remember last time I was on an expedition to the island of Isla Nublar, those little bastards were everywhere. Bullets just don’t hit them.. too small.
Squall789

wait what? if your talking about Primal carnage then I’m beyond confused, if you can make a VALID comparison between Primal carnage and Cave Story I’d be very interested to know what it is, as a big fan of both games, im rather confused by your comment.
Tommy Monster

If “Depth” bombs or is horribly disappointing or fails to come out altogether, I’m going to ask myself: “Why? Why, why why?”
And then I’m going to have to find the answer inside of people. :(
Anonymous

Someone doesn’t get sarcasm. It’s an old joke/complaint that ‘all indie games are cave story ripoffs’ . And these days every sandbox game gets accused of being a minecraft ripoff
Guest

Exactly, this reminds me more of Natural Selection. Oddly enough that name would have been great for this franchise =P
Greg-Anims

AWESOME! Both of these look incredible, thought something about seeing “you tagged ron” makes me laugh.
Phubans

Wow, I’m really impressed with the quality of the models and textures I’ve been seeing in 3D indie games lately.
Fyrren

Depths looks amazing! Can’t wait until a public release, and they have my money!
SirNiko

Please stop making this joke. It is not funny.
Dennis N.

AH AH AH YOU DID SAY THE MAGIC WORD
News

hold on to your butts
http://twitter.com/CutieCharem Charem Charmeleon

Seconded.
http://twitter.com/vsviridov Vasili Sviridov

Depth kinda reminds me of the good old Thievery Mod for UT. That game was fun, wish there were more like it…
Patrick Mullen

Both of these look amazing. With any luck they might get me to play multiplayer again.
Nerdbot

Planet Earth needs more underwater games. A LOT more underwater games.
http://twitter.com/Andy_E_Hamm Andy Hamm

These games look great, I am especially interested in Depth.
Kris

“Both games are being developed by small teams using Epic’s UDK. ”

Actually, Primal Carnage is being developed with Unigine Engine, not UDK.
Anonymous

Where did you get that information? The website and the screenshots both credit UDK, there is no mention of Unigine.
Squall789

He is Wrong, Primal is being developed with UDK NOT UNIGINE.
http://www.airbornegamer.com/ Adam

Wow, that pic with the shark looks like it might hurt a bit.
TΛPETRVE

How effin’ cool is that…?