Here are the eight video cards that we played and benchmarked ARK Park with:
We used the very latest drivers from NVIDIA (391.24) and the latest drivers from AMD (18.3.3) at time of writing.
We played the Oculus Rift version of ARK Park using a Core i7-8700K overclocked to 4.7 GHz, an EVGA FTW Z370 motherboard, and 16 GB of Kingston HyperX DDR4 at 3333 MHz on Windows 10 64-bit Home Edition. Fortunately, the game is mostly an exploration game and 45 FPS with reprojection is probably good enough for a GTX 1060 to play at. Unfortunately, the way the visuals are implemented in ARK Park, a GTX 1070 Ti is the minimum card for High settings at 90 FPS, and lesser cards only gain a little performance by dropping to Medium but with a major image quality loss. Using the Unreal 4 Engine, ARK Park delivers some very nice visuals, perhaps even surpassing CryTek’s Robinson: The Journey which is another dinosaur-themed game. Raise them from eggs, custom paint and ride them This opening scene portends the lack of reality and lack of content that afflicts ARK Park although there are some nice features. The ride is less demanding on a video card than other maps, and we see a couple of dolphins swimming at 140 kph alongside the train together with only one huge predator of the ancient seas. The first map introduces the player to ARK Park and it offers a train ride which can be skipped by heading directly to the main menu. Instead, it fails to deliver on many other levels.
However, teleportation is implemented decently in this game although we wish a design decision was made to also include free motion.ĪRK Park does not stand or fall on its lack of locomotion choices. It uses teleportation as the only means of locomotion which may immediately turn off many prospective VR game buyers. However, it is not scientifically accurate in all of its depictions, and creatures from all eras co-exist in the park. It features the NVIDIA logo and the game seems well-optimized for GeForce gamers.ĪRK Park is a must-buy for dinosaur nuts like this editor used to be since childhood.
As an Unreal Engine 4 VR game, ARK Park sports some very impressive visuals on High settings, and it is quite demanding with a GTX 970 being the minimum video card and a GTX 1080 being recommended. We are got a reviewer’s copy of ARK Park as a preview from the publisher’s agent, and this is the game review which includes FCAT-VR testing measuring the performance of eight of AMD’s and NVIDIA’s top cards on the Oculus Rift.
The idea is to explore your own “Jurassic Park”, and it has a few elements that are somewhat similar to the movie in that there are opportunities to study genetics, raise baby dinosaurs from eggs, ride and paint them, and even defend the park against attacking dinosaurs in a wave shooter segment when things go wrong with security. It allows HTC Vive, PSVR, and Oculus Rift users to interact with some of the dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Do you want to come face-to-face with a Triceratops?ĪRK Park is a multiplayer VR adventure game set in a dinosaur theme park and it promises free exploration with online friends without a plot line or schedule. Ark Park is based on Studio Wildcard’s ARK: Survival Evolved, an amazing survival game that has incredible visuals especially for powerful PCs, and we had hoped for something similar in VR. Publisher and developer Snail Games released the VR multiplayer adventure ARK Park last Thursday, March 22 during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.