So, gave it a try.
The graphics and sound aren't necessarily top-notch, but not terrible either. I do find it freezes/glitches a lot, though I don't know if that's due to the game being unfinished, my computer not being up to snuff, or both. It helped when I lowered the graphics settings, though.
As a dino-sim, its pretty nice. The music distracts from the realism a bit I find, but you can just turn it off. It does take patience, though, and its fairly unforgiving. I gave it a trial run as a Dakotaraptor (one of four Hell Creek dinosaurs the game is evidently going to let you play, the others being Tyrannosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, and Triceratops, though only Dakotaraptor is playable so far). I made it to the morning of my second day before my poor raptor croaked from lack of food and water- I wasted a lot of time figuring out the controls and moving in the wrong direction before finding water and prey (there were some animals near the water, on the far side, but I met the DEATH of dinosaurs trying to swim across before getting close enough to see what they were or try to hunt them).
The Dakotaraptor in this game is a pretty good swimmer by the way. I don't know how plausible that is, but I moved faster in water than walking (I haven't really tried out the sprint feature yet).
Definitely got a kick out of playing a raptor, especially since I've just been re-reading Robert Bakker's
Raptor Red (if you haven't read it, think
Watership Down but with raptors instead of bunny rabbits).
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