Maneater | Gameplay Walkthrough - TAMILGAMEJOYSTICKHERO | PS5 HD 60fps | @JOYSTICK-HERO #ps5 EP4
3This has to be something different! I can’t ever remember playing a game as a shark best bit is it isn’t just swimming around eating everything in sight as Maneater has a decent storyline and RPG elements as well!
The last game I think I ever played that involved swimming around the sea was far more friendly and a very long time ago, Ecco The Dolphin for those of you that remember that game back in the day!
Maneater is something completely different to that, here you are taking the role of a shark with that far less friendly! Here you will be attacking and trying to eat everything in sight, it isn’t all just swimming around aimlessly eating though as there is a storyline and some progression for your character, ahem shark..
Starting out there’s a quick tutorial just giving a quick run-through of the controls which at first do feel a bit strange and awkward, it isn’t long before they feel a little more natural and fairly intuitive. The right analogue stick is used to control the camera and the shark’s direction while the left stick is used to move forwards, backwards and side to side with the ability to swim faster assigned to holding the left trigger with a tap activating a small dash forward.after the tutorial the story begins as a large shark that’s caught and killed by a shark hunter named Scaly Pete, he’s taking part in a reality tv show and after killing the mother shark he rips her open to find a baby bull shark inside the mother, being portrayed as the villain Pete holds up the baby bull shark and scars it so he will remember it in the future planning ahead to catch it and kill it! This doesn’t go entirely to plan as the baby bull shark does get some revenge for its mother’s death, managing to wriggle loose and take Scally Pete’s arm off, escaping into the sea with its first meal! From here the story of revenge begins.
Obviously sharks can’t talk and in Maneater this is no different to real life, aside from the cutscenes for the reality tv show there is an outside narrator that will constantly pop up with some random information and some funny remarks for comedic effect.
Starting out in the dangerous waters the pup will need to avoid any of the bigger threats around such as alligators, instead, it will be a matter of killing and feasting on smaller prey such as crabs, grouper and catfish to level up and increase the size of the pup to rule the waters.
Alligators aren’t the only threat in the water and anything that is a threat to the young bull will have a red outline like the muskellunge and barracuda, non-attacking fish will have a light blue outline around them making it clear when danger is close.
The most dangerous of all things in the water is on top of it and it’s probably as you may have guessed us, humans! There’s a GTA type wanted bar called infamy in the top right corner that will fill as you cause havoc and attack humans, as you progress and get higher infamy ranking the heat on you will also increase sending more powerful shark hunters your way.
Attacking the boats and hunters on them is a bit of button smashing and with every boat, you take out there is most likely another one full of new hunters not far behind. If you do end up in trouble sometimes it is better to flea, consume some smaller fish to regain health and then get back up above the water to continue the fight. If you stay away from the shark hunters for too long you will lose them and they will stop looking for you, you won’t lose the level of infamy on the bar which is good news when trying to build infamy and unlock some of the more powerful shark body evolutions and gain precious materials.
The controls as I mentioned earlier do take some getting used to and while sometimes can feel frustrating, this is mainly during combat. The fact there is no real locking system doesn’t help, instead of locking pressing the right thumbstick will just highlight the nearest target to you and swing the camera around to it. Once attacking a selected target get ready to smash the hell out of the right trigger, you can either hold it when you have an enemy caught in the mouth and then shake the right analogue stick left to right or constantly hit the trigger to continually chomp away at your prey till they either get free or get swallowed. Aside from attacks with the mouth, there is a couple of other things to use, evade with RB and a powerful tailwhip with LB.
The evade is important when fighting some of the stronger predators in the ocean, especially the apex predators as a well-timed evade can be the difference between life and death. You will be made aware of a big incoming attack as the predator will glow yellow just before the attack happens to give you a chance to hit evade, get out the way and perform your own counter-attack.
Progressing through the story and exploring different bays will unlock upgrades to the shark as well as levelling up. Levelling up will increase size and rank eventually to the ranks of teen, adult
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