Here There Be Monsters: Evolve

Written by: Adam "ManKorn" Korenman, CC2K Video Games Editor

And then there is the other side. 

As a monster, you start each match as a small (two-story) beast with limited strength and health. You spend most of the first part of each round scrounging for food and hiding from the hunters. It is incredibly tense, as each encounter with the humans is evenly matched. If you are locked down too early, you can suffer incredible health loss, which makes a comeback even more difficult.

But then, after eating enough fauna and beating down enough attacks, you evolve. Then the tables can turn. 

Come back with more health, more armor, and a few new moves, your monster can kill hunters more efficiently and survive incredible odds. Any match I won as a monster (and there weren’t many) was because I evolved before ever running into those bastards.

Make no mistake, playing as the monster is a case of the hunted becoming the hunter. At a certain point, once you grow large enough, you begin stalking your pursuers and setting up your own traps. You climb onto high structures and wait for them to pass, leaping down to deliver the killer blow. 

Just like the hunters, there are different beasts, and each plays a different way. The Kraken is an aerial assault specialist, raining down hell on the hapless humans. The Wraith specializes in stealth and trickery, and can snatch hunters into foliage and away from their friends. 

Finally, in upcoming DLC, there is the Behemoth. Not much has been revealed about this lumbering titan, except that it will be slow and very difficult to take down.