The humans are dead, and the animals reign supreme. The original Darwinian instinct kicks in as your animal has to eat plants or smaller animals and avoid threats like stronger carnivores and the toxicity those pesky humans left behind. Eat, you-know-what, fight. Eat, you-know-what, fight. Eat, you-know-what, fight. Yeah, I could see why this game wasn't a huge hit with its somewhat repetitive gameplay loop, but I can't deny the concept is interesting enough for me to play this for a while back in my peak PS3-playing days.

It does take a long time to unlock the more interesting animals, and a lot of the animals in between are just Pomeranian but faster or Sika Deer but stronger, and it can get frustrating getting so close to unlocking the next animal only to get one-shotted because a lion managed to acknowledge your existence. But, that's the way nature is, isn't it?

I never managed to beat the story mode; I mostly stuck to survival mode. I guess I never got to it.