Engaging our lizard brains for a dinosaur-slaying co-op shooter

Developer/publisher Systemic Reaction

Format PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

Origin Sweden

Release TBA

Jurassic Park got it so wrong. Just when we’d started to think of dinosaurs as majestic, even lovable, creatures, we find ourselves overwhelmed by terrifying hell-beasts intent on razor-clawed murder. Awaiting extraction at the end of a mission, waves of mutant dinosaurs besiege our position and we are finally overwhelmed as a vicious pack of velociraptors makes short work of our three-person team, picking us off one by one. Clever girls.

“There has been a kind of defanging of dinosaurs,” explains Second Extinction lead producer Brynley Gibson of his desire to “bring the terrible lizard back”. Dinosaurs are indeed the stuff of nightmares in Systemic Reaction’s online multiplayer FPS. They have taken over the Earth, and your squad of three, each with customisable loadouts and abilities, must drop into specific maps with objectives to complete and dinosaurs to kill, trying to reclaim the planet. While it is designed as a jump-in-andplay multiplayer experience, it has a longer game in mind thanks to its war effort feature that tallies up online player successes to shift the tide of the human-dino war.