ARK: Survival Evolved brings dinosaurs to life, a virtual Terrarium

ARK: Survival Evolved, is one of the most popular sandbox survival games on Steam, and one of the pillars of its gameplay is dinosaurs. In this game, the player travels to an ancient open world and fights for his survival, overcoming all kinds of challenges, exploring a complex terrain, dealing with changing and extreme climates, and being attacked by wild creatures at all times. In this game, dinosaurs are the most common beasts from which players will have to defend themselves and even tame to try to survive.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of the ARK: Survival Evolved development team, players will be able to see up to 400 species of primitive dinosaurs, most of which can be found in historical models, such as Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, and many others. These dinosaurs were designed strictly following the paleontological atlas, and thanks to the powerful capabilities of the Unreal Engine 4 graphics engine, the dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Evolved look so realistic that it is as if they have been cloned directly from their glorious years walking the planet Earth, into the ARK universe.

In addition to having a realistic appearance, the ARK: Survival Evolved development team has also given them character traits based on their characteristic appearance and physique. The Triceratops is a good example to explain this situation: this dinosaur’s legs are very short, so it definitely won’t run very fast, and the horns on its head are very sharp. People often say that attack is the best means of defense, so the development team of ARK: Survival Evolved gave the Triceratops a very fierce character. Once it encounters an enemy, its first reaction is to fight it hard instead of running away, and it will only consider running away when its life has been reduced to a certain level.

All dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Evolved have been programmed with a certain personality, a way of reacting to the different scenarios that can occur, in such a hostile environment. And this macro design makes everything inside ARK: Survival Evolved realistic, if we position ourselves in ARK: Survival Evolved from the perspective of an omnipresent being, you will see that even when you are not in the game the dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Evolved are doing their thing, feeding, fighting, trying to survive, which is the strongest proof that the development team has managed to bring the dinosaurs to life.