![]() Having followed my own advice on this a number of times, I can’t help but say that even as Jake lost his mind on screen thanks to the infinite number of leeches that attached to his arms and legs, I lost mine trying to use the crafting screens. If you want to move outwards to explore the story however, you’ll need to create more and more advanced items. Building a fire, covering it with a leaf canopy and then adding somewhere to sleep is all easy enough, as is collecting clean water from coconut shells or similar. If you’re not playing the story mode (or even if you are, but intend to take it slowly) this can be managed by building a static location to work outwards from. Given the temperature of the setting and the exertion that Jake goes through, water is almost always your biggest concern, but three different food groups (protein, fat and carbs) are also needed, as is sleep, energy and more. What follows is perhaps the most unforgiving survival experience I’ve yet encountered in any similar game, thanks to all of the normal threats you’d expect in a game like this, which are then compounded by another Green Hell party trick (insanity) and an awful control scheme. Without spoiling anything, the two are predictably separated during the opening few scenes and following a brief (and most useless) tutorial, Jake finds himself lost, alone and concerned for Mia’s welfare. ![]() ![]() The player takes on the role of Jake Higgins, a researcher and author who returns to the Amazon with his wife Mia, who from the outset is clearly searching for something. Perhaps the most interesting thing about Green Hell is its relatively heavy focus on storytelling. Green Hell is very much the latter, with a few twists of its own to keep things interesting. Some focus on combat elements rather than the bare essentials, whilst others seem to fill your day with nothing but searching for and purifying water. Why the bad pun? Well, the latest survival simulator to join Xbox One’s bulging ranks is Green Hell - which is also a popular nickname for the Amazon rainforest.Īs you probably know, survival games of this kind tend to come with varying degrees of challenge in terms of what they ask of the player. With so many themes already covered, searching for inspiration must be difficult - and it’s possible that developers have not been able to see the wood for the trees. Whether it’s zombies in DayZ, robots in Generation Zero or oversized aquatic horrors in Stranded Deep, the survival genre is well and truly thriving.
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