The big shot of the trailer is Santiago and Meek riding on the back of a massive dinosaur that has been decked out with a saddle and armor.ĭespite the major focus in the trailers so far being on Diesel’s Santiago character, Ark 2 will still primarily be a sandbox game just like the first. Their life on this new planet, which was populated by animals sent there from Earth, is a constant struggle for survival. The opening monologue from Meeka, the girl from the first trailer and daughter of Diesel’s Santiago, explains that there was a war in the past that led to the state of the world being a mashup of prehistoric animals and futuristic technologies. This much shorter trailer finally gives a little context to the story and world of Ark 2. Santiago turns off the device, and they leave the cave and stand on a massive vista of impossible landmasses and dinosaurs.Īcting almost like a re-reveal of sorts, the next Ark 2 trailer didn’t drop until the June 2022 Microsoft and Bethesda Showcase. A screen scans Vin, identifying him as Santiago Da Costa, along with a bunch of details about him, including that his Engram Imprinting is incomplete and he’s restricted from cloning access. Here, we see that everyone has a glowing stone embedded in their forearms that is reacting to some sci-fi technology. There’s a lot of fighting, running, and epic music until Vin, the girl, and a woman escape into a cave. Vin faces off against the leader of this group in a drawn-out battle that ends up getting cut short when a T-Rex breaks through the trees and eats the beast-man.Īs it attacks Vin’s tribe, someone sacrifices themselves to save the girl. They rejoin their small tribe wandering through the jungles but are stalked by cloaked beast-men. She watches it scurry along a branch as none other than caveman Vin Diesel comes up from behind and tells her they need to leave. The trailer opens on a girl observing a strange creature camouflaged as a flower. The announcement trailer for Ark 2 made its debut on the Game Awards stage in December 2020 with a flashy, and lengthy, video.

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