Sea Monsters – A Prehistoric Adventure is an open world simulation video game. This game was developed by DSI Games and published by Zoo Digital Publishing, and was released on 25 October 2007.

PLOT

There is no big plot in this game. The only plot-based objective is to escape the island you reside in.

SETTINGS

Sea Monsters takes place in an alternate prehistoric world where Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous era are place in one age. The game also takes place in an unnamed island where most of it are consist of water.

GAMEPLAY

At first, you only play as a dinosaur named Thalassomedon, the main game can only be played in Singleplayer. The game is in small open-world area where you can roam around the Hub in a third-person perspective. The game have 6 playable dinosaur where you unlock after collecting all of their fossils.

The only objective for this game is to collect all of the fossils located all across the world of the game. The playable dinosaurs can also be helped using wildcards, where you can replace their fossils, except the head part. After collecting their fossils, you can open their fun facts on each of their fossil parts. After you complete a set, you can watch their video and concept art in the main menu. You can also get another fossils for NPCs, but only to unlock fun fact, video, and concept art.

The game have 5 portals where you can traverse. Each portal leads you to different area where you do challenges to obtain fossils for each challenges. Each portal can be found by only 1 playable dinosaur each

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The fight system for this game is a bit weird, the controls for it sometimes a bit clunky but still playable. First, you have to lock onto an enemy, then attack by clicking a button while swim straight to them. In battle, when you can avoid an enemy attack, you get a bonus damage. You can stack you bonus damage up to 5 times. When you attack, get attacked, or wait for too long, the bonus damage disappear.

The game also has health bar, where it can be depleted when attacked by enemies. Your health can be restored by eating a fish, or defeating an enemy. There is also stamina bar, when you can use it for your skill of each different playable dinosaur. Stamina bar can be restored by resting or do nothing. There is also Oxygen bar where if you stay in the water for too long, it will be depleted and deplete your health bar. Swim into the surface to restore them. There is also depth range for each dinosaurs, where if you swim too deep, a prompt will show up “Too Deep” and deplete all three bars faster. Don’t swim too deep.

OVERALL

The game itself is only for educational purpose, so the fun factor for this game is not that high. The controls are weird for first timers, but can be adapted. The game is more focused on Singleplayer, there is a Multiplayer menu, but only limited to a race game. The game was received poorly for some people, but for Dinosaurs lovers, it’s pretty enjoyable.

Author:

  1. Yogi Udjaja
  2. Keza Kajendra