PC World - USA (2019-02)

74 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2019

REVIEWS ATL A S

manned the Vingilot’s two sails.

It’s realistic for a game. For that matter, it’s

more my speed than Studio Wildcard’s

super-similar ARK: Survival Evolved. At one

point we had to toss wood overboard for

more speed, and we huddled against the

campfire to stave off the cold on the lonely

nights. We found islands where giant statues

loomed like The

Lord of the Rings’

Argonath over

freeports. We

passed “power

stone” islands

populated by level

70 ogres and beasts

that would no doubt

kill our level 25ish

selves with a glance.

But we didn’t

find a home. The

biggest problem

with Atlas right now

is that all the land is

claimed. New

players can’t set a

dependable home

base because launch

day players like us

already grabbed all

the land; we at least

had our hellish little

pile of sand and

snakes deep in the

southern seas to return to.

The voyage also reminded us that we’d

had it particularly bad. Everyone else was

mainly complaining about the frequent

crashes and rollbacks, to say nothing of the

punks who went around tearing down

buildings for sheer thrill of it. But from our

perspective, the gameplay elsewhere was

When fishing stops go horribly wrong.

Here there be dragons. And possibly krakens.