You give it a piece of meat, and suddenly it’ll do whatever you want. It’s just as easy to tame a saber-toothed cat as it is a bear, or wolf and never did it seem like I needed to create a degree of trust with these animals. And this is an opportunity that was seriously missed. So many times I sent my wolf to attack bears and when it died as I was running for my life I just thought, “Well I guess I’ve got to tame a new wolf.” From what I can tell there doesn’t seem to be a leveling or skill system for animals, so it really does come down to: if your animal dies, just go get a new one.

It was suggested that the animals would feel like partners to your mission rather then just items, but I couldn’t disagree more. While on the surface this seems like a pretty good idea, it never felt incredibly necessary when taking out a camp of Neanderthals is just as easy when you have a bow and stealth. Different animals have varying skills ranging between strength, speed and stealth. The big new selling feature of Far Cry Primal is the “beast master” mode, wherein certain animals can be fed a piece of meat, which will trigger a prompt to tame them and have them become your sidekicks. There may be a lot more to the final game, but for now we’ll have to wait and see. This will play a large role in the main game as players take control of Takkar and seek to conquer the land and rebuild his destroyed tribe. The game looks incredibly gorgeous but in today’s gaming industry that’s basically to be expected.īut exploring and survival aren’t the only goals in Far Cry Primal within the demo players were tasked with raiding a small tribal camp in order to take it over.

In the brief demo I was given a vast world to explore, although not enough time to explore it, teeming with woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and a host of prehistoric humans to slaughter and loot.

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