Not only is it almost entirely based around you guarding an object and being tasked with killing waves of rushing enemies in the most banal and unexciting manner you can think of, but the gunplay itself is utterly limp and bereft of satisfaction as the range of firearms you have access to (you must craft your own weapons) feel more like BB guns than legitimately heavy feeling (and sounding) weapons that are capable of inflicting real damage. ARK Park is at its best when you’re solving puzzles and taking in the local flora and fauna.įor a start, combat is hugely unfulfilling.

In ARK Park however, you physically have to open up a menu and then manually specify that you want to engage in exploration, shooting or park management activities, and it’s also fair to say that the level of execution varies greatly between those different components, too. ARK Park Review – An Oddly Disjointed Take On Its Parent Franchiseįrom the top, the division of ARK’s key design components into separate modes within ARK Park is jarring because what made ARK work (depending on who you speak to) in the first place was that the player could indulge themselves in all of these pursuits seamlessly.

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