However, the first title started out in a similar fashion, so it’s entirely possible that Ark 2 is hitting the reset button and starting fresh before letting players have full-blown mecha-battles with monsters. It’s unclear what Ark 2 has in store for us, but the trailer made it look rather tame in comparison to the first game. Ark 2 gameplayĪrk has gotten pretty wild since I last played it, with the introduction to aliens, more robot dinosaurs, dragons, space combat, and David Tennant. It’s definitely not the move I was expecting from the small dinosaur game that launched in early access on Xbox back in 2017.Īt the very end of Ark: Survival Evolved, we see Vin Diesel's character leaving his pod and landing on a new world, which is presumably where Ark 2 takes place, but that’s all we know so far. If Ark 2 is going to stand out from its predecessor and establish itself as a AAA title, a fully fleshed out narrative with one of the most popular Hollywood actors would certainly do the trick.

Regardless of the narrative, it looks like there are antagonistic humanoids in the game that look like monsters, which wasn’t the case in the first game, at least not when I played it. In the first game, you simply create a goofy-looking player-character. It could be that Vin Diesel plays an NPC in the open-world, or he might be a playable character. It’s unclear if there’s an overarching story to be had in Ark 2.

Ark 2 delayed