Jaws of Extinction, developed by KYE Creations and published by Forthright Entertainment, delves into Early Access after being in the Alpha phase for three years. A game started on Kickstarter and now the developers feel it is time for us to check out how it has grown and will continue to do so. Now the game plans to be in Early Access for about 2-3 years to fully flesh out the game and rid of the game-breaking bugs. There are plans for the game to continue to develop throughout the year that the developers are opened to explaining to the community.
Jaws Of Extinction starts you on the island of Eden-Nadir, an open-world experience, where you will deal with threats throughout. At the start of the game, you will have a mission that will ease you into the game from the mechanics to gear that will become helpful. But once you get out of this beginning section, which takes around 50 minutes, the game opens up. You can keep going into the story with the NPCs in the town or just go straight into other aspects of the title. The story did not bring me in all that much as there needs to be some work put on that aspect, but I do enjoy the Sheriff at the start of the game. The game did not grip me with the story but the freedom to not even have to do the story intrigued me as I jumped right into the other aspects of the game. This includes crafting, looting, base building, cooking, farming, survival that all can be explored and delved into. In the game, you will go up against infected, this game’s version of zombies, which brings in the horror aspects of the game. Also, there are armed bandit survivors and wildlife that will try to kill you in the process as well. There are also survival aspects to the game where you will have to survive the elements. The crafting in this title is solid as well with the promise to become a robust system in the next couple of years.
I enjoyed the graphics in this title, obviously being an Early Access game there will be some texture problems that will pop up. Another problem is texture pop-ins with some elements like trees and grass that will pop up while you’re walking. However, that is to be expected with an early access title with a small team working to fix those issues. The voice acting has its good parts with some solid dialogue scenes, but also some funky scenes as well, but I’m sure that will be continued to be worked on. Overall, the sound of the game needs some tweaking with some more detail that needs to be added and adjusted with footprints and gunshots.
If you notice the theme of this review, yes this is an early access title so it will have issues. This is something to know when buying this game that there will be bugs and issues throughout as this is not a finished product. There are, however, tons of promise with base building aspects, survival, cooking, farming, and even more that emphasizes to me that this could become an intriguing title. However, that is with the asterisk that it will take some time. But if you want to support this team that seems to have a plan of attack for new features and wants to hear back from the community to continue to build the game then I’m all for it. Just know that the game will have issues at first but there is a lot of promise with this title. I would personally give it some more time to be fleshed out more, but I could see myself jumping back onto this game in the future.
Jaws of Extinction is available to buy via Steam Early Access for $19.99.
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Gaming has always been an outlet for me to interact with different people and explore all kinds of possibilities. I play a wide variety of games always willing to try different mechanics and storylines that developers are trying to create for their games. I grew up delving into MW2 and World of Warcraft, I miss the Wrath of The Lich King days, and as I have gotten older I have found a love for RPGs and strategy games, my favorites being The Witcher 3 and Total War. Always looking forward to the next great game.
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