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Luckily, you get a survival guide right at the start which teaches you how to build the basics, however, we need to say that moving through the different sections of the book with L1 and R1 was a bit of a bore, as you have to visit every page to get to the one you want. There's so much to see, do, and explore, as you can irritate the natives by building a tree house, a fire, or even making a weird totem out of the body parts of their buddies.

There's also a trophy that will pop if you go for the entire playthrough as a vegan, eating just berries.

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If the mood so takes you, you can even go full cannibal and feast on your neighbours. You can dine on them and even fashion armour out of their hides. If your buddy takes too long, or your demise is caused by drowning or sharks, you can always respawn back at the plane and then head out to pick up your backpack.Īlong with the dangerous critters like sharks, there is a range of animals to hunt and kill. In the multiplayer, you'll just collapse and wait for your friend to bail you out. In this cavern, you'll get to see some of the other deceased passengers and find a map and compass.

In the single-player game, the first time you plummet down a slope or get overwhelmed by savages, you'll find yourself being dragged to a cave. There are sharks that want to eat you, which along with drowning, means that heading out into the ocean to escape the locals isn't always the answer. These interactions make it feel like you genuinely have to hide or fight to survive, and that makes it such a great horror adventure. There are even some who just want you off their hunting grounds, and when you leave, they'll bugger off. At other moments they'll try and test you to see if you'll stand your ground, but scarper at the last second to avoid conflict.

Quite often they just hang back, stalking you, trying to find out where your base is so they can report back to the others. It would have been so easy for it to be a case of them running in and attacking you, but something genuinely terrifying happens next, since the AI has some form of self-preservation. There you are, chopping a tree watching your buddy trying to spear a fish when a feral grunt roars out. Generally speaking, one thing we loved was how the cannibal AI worked. In later playthroughs, we were better prepared and quickly took out a couple of invaders with a bow and arrow, having a relatively peaceful start thereafter. The first time we played it we thought the normal setting was really hard, but this was down to the aforementioned bad luck. You have a choice between playing in single-player and multiplayer, with the solo game coming in three different difficulties. If you're not so lucky, get your weapons ready. This means, if you're lucky, you'll be far away from any human munchers. One minute you're minding your business on a flight with your boy, and the next thing you know, you're involved in a plane crash, with the wreckage appearing potentially anywhere on the map.

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In a start that looks a bit like the one from TV series Lost, as you're the survivor of a plane crash on a peninsula populated by cannibals and mutants who have kidnapped your son. The Forest isn't just a gentle meander through the woods looking for mushrooms to nibble, but instead it's a stunning survival experience that can be brutally difficult at times, especially if you have a bit of bad luck. Turns out that we were wrong, because nobody was trying to eat Ray, and that's the kind of adversity you have to deal with here.

After watching Ray Mears survive the wilds over the years, we felt prepared for anything this game could throw at us.

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