New review. WIP

Replacing the old review with a newer, more relevant review as the previous review was done during Early Access and my experience has changed somewhat. The review can be accessed below:

https://pastebin.com/AwTyDnVk

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Ark: Survival Evolved is a mixed bag of a game. You are in a fantasy world where you wake up, stranded on an island with prehistoric and mythical creatures, with nothing else to do but find a way to survive.

Whether you play single player, multiplayer official or multiplayer unofficial will change your experience entirely.

I originally purchased this game back during the early access period, but then stopped playing as at the time, prior to DLC being released, had felt like I had experienced it all. And as a veteran of more than one war on the official server I used to play on, I certainly have a lot of stories that I could tell, each day that I play the game, there's the potential for a new experience. Sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's thrilling. At the end of the day, it comes down to what you personally make of it.

As a single player game, ARK is a lonely game. The only signs of you not being alone is scattered ruins and notes/dossiers left behind from 5-6 survivors either giving you information about the creatures on the island, or telling you about them and their life before the ark/events that happened during their stay.

However, you will truly be alone and feel alone when you will get yourself accidentally stuck in a spot where you can't touch the ground, such as mining metal on mountain tops. In these cases, you have no choice but to die since a lot of actions normally available may not be. This is Ark at its most annoying.

Ark at its most intense and to me, most exciting can be the random, but not impossible to survive