Your shark has several set stages of growth, from a lowly pup through “teen”, “adult”, all the way up to the colossal “Meg”, at which point your shark is basically a giant scar with teeth. XP is used to “grow” your Shark, which is one of Maneater’s ideas that I really like. Do this at the right moment, and it’ll open up certain enemies to a counterattack, where you can clamp your jaws around them and “thrash” them around in the water, dealing massive damage.Įating humans and other animals earns you XP and a bunch of other resources, as does completing set missions like killing specific enemies or going to an area to eat a set number of opponents. You can also “dodge” attacks from shark-hunters or other predators like barracudas or alligators. You bite enemies to damage them and can whip them with your tail to stun them. The basic controls of swimming and eating are simple to grasp and fun to play around with. You do this by swimming around and gobbling up everything that moves in the ocean as well as every icon that appears on the map.įor the first few hours, this is all entertaining enough. From there, your goal is REVENGE, on Scaly Pete, on humanity, on basically anything that has blood.īut you’re not going to do much damage as a glorified dogfish, so first your mobile tooth-factory needs to bulk up, to get hench. You start out life a bull-shark pup who is brutally cut out of its mother’s womb by a shark-hunter named Scaly Pete, who marks you with a knife and tosses you back into the shallows. Maneater is described by developers Tripwire Interactive as a “shark RPG”, but in practice it’s more like Carmageddon with fins, a simple and loosely-structured aquatic rampage that’s has notional story and structure, but is really about causing as much chaos as possible. What if Hitler had been eaten by a shark, eh? What then? If you’re a shark and you’re reading this, it’s time to step up your game, and be more like the shark from Maneater.
A hundred shark attacks probably aren't enough to get rid of all the serial killers currently running around. Think of all the murderers, corrupt politicians, and Wall Street executives who have gone completely uneaten over the years. Come on, sharks! There are over seven billion humans on this planet. My point is that statistically, sharks have been shirking their man-eating duties. Think you’re so smart, do you? Well, which one of us is more likely to end up in a tin of tuna, you chittering berks. So, who’s the real terror of the seas, eh? Obviously, the answer is dolphins, the smug, bottle-nosed gits. But did you know there are fewer than 100 shark attacks on humans each year? Humans, by comparison, are reckoned to kill around 100 million sharks a year. Fiction from Jaws to Sharknado has painted the shark as a terror of the oceans, Public Enemy No.