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This review was originally published in May 2020.We re-released it in 2021 to match Maneater’s steam release.

I have forgotten how many people I ate. My task is to consume 10 golfers, because people don’t play golf in the sea, so I have to jump out of the water, wandering to the golf course, and start chewing. Before I finished my snacks, three patrol boats appeared, filled with shark hunters with guns, so I ate them too. I might eat up to about 17 humans now, even though I still need three golfers in my stomach to complete my bloody mission.

need to know

What is it? Action role-playing game, you are a hungry shark
Expect to pay 40 USD
Developer Tripwire interaction
Publisher Tripwire interaction
Review date RTX 2080, Intel i7-9700K, 16GB RAM
multiplayer game not any
Associate Official website

More hunters from patrol boats and jet skis arrived, so I also ate them, and some divers. Then a celebrity shark hunter appeared, flanked by several escort boats. This is Candyman Curtis, important enough to guarantee his introduction in the cutscenes. This is a boss battle, but… he is still a human, right? There is no superpower, no suit of love, and no large amount of health. I jumped out of the water, grabbed Curtis from his boat, took a few bites and swallowed him as I was swimming. When you are a damn shark, defeating humans in a boss battle is not a big deal.

According to Matt Hooper in the 1975 movie “Jaws”, sharks can only do three things. They can swim, eat and make small sharks. In Tripwire’s action role-playing game Maneater, you are just swimming and eating (sometimes lying on the golf course), which does not sound enough to push you to complete the entire open-world role-playing game. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Even considering that I completed the main storyline in less than eight hours, I still get bored with the swimming and eating activities repeated long before the end.

Although you won’t make baby sharks in Maneater, you start the game like this: A Cajun shark hunter named Scaly Pete cuts a calf shark from the belly of your dying mother. Pete left a scar on you, bit his hand and threw you back into the water, and you two began to take revenge.

To have the final duel with Pete, you need to become a complete opponent, from a baby shark (doo-doo, doo-doo, etc.) to a teenager, then an adult, and finally a giant shark, gaining new abilities and abilities along the way. Attack and use the nourishment from the endless creatures and people you consume to upgrade them.

Growing from a small fish to a huge Leviathan has many attractions, but what you do along the way has not changed enough. Eating 10 things-humans, turtles, fish, seals, other sharks-was fun at first. Humans scream, animals struggle, blood is filled with water, covering beaches and boats. By swinging the mouse back and forth while catching the prey, tap the shark’s head to quickly reduce them into a group of close friends. But by doing this again and again (time and time again), the creepy novelty will soon disappear, and it becomes an unconscious exercise.

There are also missions to kill single large predators, such as crocodile, barracuda, or shark companions, as well as more difficult battles with top predators such as orcas in the marine world-like arena and ancient sperm whales based on beluga whales . But the battle and enemy AI in Maneater are very sloppy. When I found that just sending my attack was better, I finally gave up cautious evasion and timed attacks. When I go to eat fish to restore my health, the orca boss will not hunt me down, which means it is easy to chop him into a blood clot. I smashed Moby Dick to the bottom of the sea, where he got stuck and defeated him. Then I floated there, slowly chewing him to death.

(Image source: Tripwire Interactive)

Humans scream, animals struggle, blood is filled with water, covering beaches and boats

When you start to terrorize other humans, human shark hunters will appear, which provides you with a wanted level similar to GTA. The shark hunter boss will only appear when you increase the threat level by killing a large number of ordinary hunters. Most bosses, such as Curtis, are just standard people with big guns, and I actually appreciate this a bit. Once human bosses appear in the world, you can eat them as quickly as everyone else. It is refreshing. Some of the bosses near the end have armored ships, depth bombs and better weapons, but it is more troublesome to generate bosses through dozens of standard hunters than to defeat the actual human boss itself, and spam attacks are also effective on ships, just like sea creatures. Same as above.

Shark Trek

The rest of Maneater is a collectible activity: find every hidden landmark, every sunken drug box (helpful for mutation), every huge rotating license plate (because in “Jaws”, the shark eats the license plate , See). These same activities are repeated in every new area you visit, and this is mainly what you do in Maneater: wander around looking for collectibles to check your list, and eat 10/10 of each when told Kind of creatures. Although the Maneater area itself is very diverse—from shallow, muddy estuaries to garbage-clogged urban rivers, to sparkling vast oceans full of marlins and giant sperm whales—the activities you do in it This is not the case.

(Image source: Tripwire Interactive)

At least the progress gained from these repetitive tasks makes things a little fresher. You can obtain evolutionary mutations, cover your body with a bony exoskeleton, and use a powerful siege hammer to attack. This is my first choice for smashing ships and attacking enemy sharks with torpedoes. Another mutation allows you to grow blue tendrils to shock your enemies and turn yourself into pure electricity to avoid attacks. This looks cool but not as effective as wearing bone armor and hitting things with my head. There are also passive abilities that can be upgraded to adjust your body shape, such as the ability to survive longer on land-this is very useful for eating a group of people without having to jump back into the water to breathe.

These upgrades also show that Maneater lacks diversified activities. The bone armor set is unlocked by killing top predators. The bioelectric ability comes from defeating human hunter bosses like Curtis, but there is also a shadow mutant set, which gives you the vampire’s blood-sucking ability, a time slowing skill, and Poison attack. The set of shadows can only be unlocked by finding each hidden landmark in five different areas. This is a tiresome checklist task. After I am ready to leave them and move on for a long time, it keeps me in various areas Swimming and searching.

(Image source: Tripwire Interactive)

I still like Maneater. The environment is very detailed and it is nice to check in a few quiet moments between the same tasks on the chewing list. Your shark’s appearance is also great-every small upgrade you make to her body will make her look cooler and scarier, the exoskeleton becomes more scary and jagged, and electricity and shadows change slowly. Cover your cosmetics with strange science fiction novels. With a completely upgraded mutation, you really look like a shark in a horror movie, which is basically what all those hapless golfers look like.

The story of your shark’s life (and Scaly Pete’s) is provided by Chris Parnell of Saturday Night Live and Rick and Morty. This is a delightful series, smooth narrative, one-liner, pop culture reference From the water world to the furnace development obstructed festival, even some real shark facts have been added. I laughed many times while playing Maneater: Parnell has a supreme talent, even when he is talking nonsense, his voice is very convincing and informative.

The growth from a newborn small shark to a giant shark has not only increased in capacity but also in size, which is also very novel. The hammerhead sharks and crocodiles that were mercilessly beaten to me when I was young eventually became a zero-risk food source, threatening me no less than seals or sea turtles. It is a damn satisfying feeling to hold a creature that once dwarfs me in my mouth, and this kind of size change is rare in RPG.

Regrettably, the journey from baby to giant shark did not involve more kinds of activities. Like Hooper said, sharks can only swim and eat. Unfortunately, even a short-action RPG like Maneater is not enough.

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