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Episodic dinosaur action game Primal Carnage: Genesis has been put on hold, with multiplayer-focussed Primal Carnage: Extinction taking its place.
Extinction will launch on Steam in November and in Q1 2015 for PS4.
Now in the hands of Circle 4 Studios and co-developer Pub Games, Extinction is described as a “class-based, online multiplayer” action game set on a “mysterious island overrun with prehistoric monsters” in which players can fight as a variety of dinosaurs or part of the human mercenary team.
So what happened to Genesis, which was announced for PS4 back in March 2013.
“Primal Carnage: Genesis began development at a time when the Primal Carnage brand and Lukewarm Media were being pulled in different directions, and forces within the company could not completely agree on which project to pursue,” wrote Circle 5’s Aaron Pollack. “There was a strong concept for single-player narrative-driven Primal Carnage game, and there was an exciting opportunity to develop a game for the PS4, built on the brand new Unreal Engine 4, but ultimately the project was too large in scope for Lukewarm Media to pursue, and the project was unofficially put on hold at the end of Summer 2013.”
Pollack added: “Plans for the brand changed considerably after Lukewarm Media quietly transitioned ongoing management and development of Primal Carnage to Circle 5 Studios, a distributed network of developers and artists that had grown out of the modding community. Circle 5 felt that they were not in a position to pursue the extremely ambitious Primal Carnage: Genesis, but the company saw the opportunity to start over with the brand and to launch a multiplayer sequel to the first Primal Carnage on the PS4 platform with our friends and co-developers: Pub Games, a Melbourne-based team that had previously assisted development of the original Primal Carnage.”
He concluded: “If everything goes well for us with Primal Carnage: Extinction we would definitely consider pursuing Genesis. For the moment, however, Genesis is effectively still on hold.”
Source: US PlayStation Blog
