PETER HOSKIN evaluations: Revenge Of The Savage Planet: Why larger is probably not higher for the Savage Planet sequence…

Revenge Of The Savage Planet (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £32.99 or incorporated with Xbox Game Pass)

Verdict: Silly house

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Space colonisation by no means appeared so catastrophic — nor so vibrant. At the beginning of Revenge Of The Savage Planet, your undauntable astronaut is slightly actually dumped on a remote international stuffed with fluorescent vegetation and weirdo creatures.

Then he’s dumped, in a special sense, through the grim company who despatched him there, and left to fend for himself. Can he get through?

The solution is a powerful sure. This recreation is just like its predecessor, 2020’s Journey To The Savage Planet, in that it comes to poking round, discovering new assets and inventing new era — ray weapons and jetpacks and the like — so as to transfer directly to someplace new.

And it’s additionally were given the similar (now and again endearing, now and again frustrating) infantile sense of humour. Everything right here gurgles and sprays goo.

So how is Revenge other? The very first thing that stands proud is its new standpoint: third-person, as an alternative of first. I believe it is because there’s extra platforming right here — extra hopping from rock to rock — which is best performed when you’ll see your whole player-character.

Then there’s the larger emphasis on cooperative play with your mates, performed over the web or now — via a split-screen mode — whilst you’re sat at the similar settee. 

Peter Hoskin provides the sport a 3 superstar ranking 

I most commonly performed Revenge solo, which was once completely stress-free, however there’s no denying that the co-op added a undeniable… deliciously malevolent… one thing. It’s amusing to set traps to your pals whilst you’re all supposed to be getting alongside.

But most likely the largest trade is that Revenge is, er, larger. Its planets are extra open and expansive than earlier than, and, sure, I did imply to mention planets, plural. 

There are 4 of them now, no longer only one. Yet that may well be Revenge’s undoing. For all its jumps, japes and jokes, there’s no longer slightly sufficient occurring to fill all that house.

I sooner or later bored with the similar gameplay loop over and over again: to find stuff within the wild; go back again to base to craft an improve; to find stuff within the wild; go back again to base… and so forth. Sorry, Robinson Cosmo. I gotta cross.