![]() ![]() But Maneater is so easy that it doesn’t matter much how you upgrade the shark. ![]() There aren’t very many types of these unlockables, however, and many of them take nearly the entire game to acquire. Upgrading these with materials naturally increases their efficacy. You also have three mutagen slots that have a variety of uses, such as increasing your sonar range or making you faster. Body evolutions change the shark’s appearance, and are applied to its head, body, fins, teeth, and tail. There are three different types of materials that you can use to upgrade the shark’s various unlockables, which come in the form of body evolutions and mutagens. Maneater is very much about eating things. The shark can lunge, which functions similarly to how sprinting works in most games, and it has a sonar that it can use to detect collectibles and see what materials you’ll receive from ingesting certain creatures. There’s no lock-on, however, only a focus option, so you’ll need to constantly reset the camera when fighting hostiles, which is a bit of a pain. You can bite your foes, hit them with your tail, and thrash them. The shark doesn’t have many abilities, but what it can do is solid. But, unlike the deep waters that you find yourself diving into, Maneater itself is shallow. The game’s animations are also strong, which does a great job of bringing its many seafaring creatures to life. Swimming briskly underwater is a treat, as is watching the way your shark moves as it knifes on the surface. These extend to the world around you the different areas of Port Clovis are beautiful to look at. Say what you will, but this game has excellent production values. The cutscenes are well-made and generally entertaining, though. Finish the episode, and you get a cutscene showing what Pete is up to. ![]() The way the structure works is that you accomplish story tasks that are laid out for you in your log and they fill an episode bar. Aside from a handful of cutscenes, you’ll seldom be doing anything even vaguely related to the plot. From here, you control the baby shark and see to its evolution.Īfter this admittedly captivating introduction, the story in Maneater takes a back seat. He then marks it with his knife, loses his hand to it, and throws it in the water. After a brief confrontation, Pete defeats you and drags you into his boat, only to cut your belly open and rip a baby shark out of you. But you get the attention of the famous shark hunter and star of the titular reality show, Scaley Pete, by doing so. Maneater ‘s loosely defined plot starts with you taking control of a bull shark wreaking havoc in the oceanside community of Port Clovis. Unfortunately, there’s barely anything to it, making for one of the most disappointingly empty open worlds I’ve seen in some time. With a lovely world, solid underlying mechanics, and fairly enjoyable gameplay, it’s easy to have a bit of fun with the game. After Jaws Unleashed lurched out of the water nearly a decade-and-a-half ago, we had nothing to, excuse me, sink our teeth into. There aren’t enough open-world shark games. ![]()
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