Carnivores: Cityscape PC

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  • Summary: 245 million years of evolution collide when a starship crashes, releasing hoards of furious Jurassic beasts into the parks, sewers and streets. Eradicate the escaped carnivores or play the dinosaur and stomp, claw and bite your way to freedom. [Infogrames]

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Gamezilla!
    76
    Visually and audibly pleasing, and professionally done, but for some reason, lacks replay value.
  2. GameZone
    69
    When you stack a game like this up against other recent FPS programs – like "C&C’s Renegade," or "Alien versus Predator 2" – Carnivores comes up a little short.
  3. Electric Playground
    65
    Cityscape has the look of "Unreal" and uses the "Serious Sam" engine, but falls way short of both in playability, artificial intelligence, ingenuity, and environment.
  4. GameSpy
    58
    A mediocre FPS that fails to make good use of the Serious Engine.
  5. Gamers' Temple
    58
    Carnivores just plain falls short in its execution and its repetitive nature makes it difficult to hold the player's interest for long.
  6. GameSpot
    52
    A thoroughly second-rate action game.
  7. PC Gamer
    20
    A Festival of Crap. [July 2002, p.63]
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  1. IshmaelM
    Jun 24, 2009
    10
    Truly awesome. Better than the other carnivores games because YOU GET TO BE A DINO TO YEAH BABY KILLING PEOPLE!
  2. DHChris
    Sep 15, 2013
    2
    Most fans of the Carnivores series try to forget this game exists. They're not wrong to do so.
    Cityscape was developed not by the original    Most fans of the Carnivores series try to forget this game exists. They're not wrong to do so.
    Cityscape was developed not by the original Carnivores team, but by Sunstorm Interactive, who developed Primal Prey. This is very apparent from the start as the style of the dinosaurs, the gameplay (right down to the "decaying corpse" mechanic), and the sci-fi style weapons are identical to what you'd have expected from a hypothetical "Primal Prey 2". There's very little connecting this game to the original Carnivores series, and whenever it tries to bring in the (very short, very simple) lore of those games it somehow manages to always get it wrong.
    The biggest deviation, obviously, is that this is an FPS rather than a hunting game. Taking the connection to the original games aside, this still seems like a very bad idea. Cityscape does a poor job of competing with other shooters from its time, both graphically and gameplay-wise, and makes poor use of the Serious Sam engine. The game as a whole feels very lazy, with lots of bugs, nonsensical missions, gaping seams in character models and even a level where they didn't even bother to animate the water.
    The game does offer the unique option to play as a dinosaur, but the concept is so horribly executed that no one in their right mind would ever want to. As a human, the game is playable, but laughably bad and very easy- big guns and thermal goggles ensure that you'll never be outmatched or caught off guard. As a stand-alone game it's mediocre, and as a Carnivores game it's even worse.    … Expand

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