ARK II Launches in 2022 as an Xbox Series X|S Console Launch Exclusive - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 January 2021 / 2,642 Views
Studio Wildcare at The Game Awards 2020 announced ARK II and later Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg revealed the game will launch as an Xbox Series X|S console exclusive.
A new Xbox Wire post reveals the game will launch in 2022 for the Xbox Series X|S. A PC version was not mentioned, however, with Microsoft releasing first-party games on PC day one, it is likely it will also launch on PC.
Read the Xbox Wire post below:
The Ark franchise has a long-storied history with the Xbox community. Ark: Survival Evolved was a console launch exclusive in the Xbox Game Preview program in December 2015, gaining valuable feedback from Xbox One players along the way before launching in August 2017. When Xbox One X launched in November 2017, it was one of the first Xbox One X Enhanced titles. Then in January 2019, Xbox Game Pass members joined the Ark community then gained access to the Scorched Earth, Aberration, and Extinction DLC. Ark: Survival Evolved is also one of the first titles to be optimized for Xbox Series X|S.
Now with Ark II, players will be thrust into a brutal new world of primitive survival against both beast and man, facing down the ever-present threats of hyper-realistic intelligent dinosaurs, aggressive alien fauna, and the exotic environments of an unearthly planet. Survivors will continue Ark’s dramatic eons-spanning story of humankind’s evolution, in this next-generation sandbox survival experience.
Ark II will also feature Vin Diesel as a hero character, Santiago, who will also be a crossover character in the upcoming “Ark: The Animated Series.” While Vin Diesel will lend his acting talents to Ark II, he is also a massive fan of the franchise, now serving as an executive producer on the game’s sequel and having logged over 1,000 hours in Ark: Survival Evolved.
We’ll have more news to share in the near future about Ark II here on Xbox Wire. We look forward to seeing you in the Ark!
P.S. Don’t forget to grab your free Santiago weapon skins and the Animated Series Raptor costume in Ark: Survival Evolved now, before they’re gone!
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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The headline could be better in terms of conveying that it's a "console launch exclusive" (aka timed exclusive). Hopefully better optimised than the first game.
Considering how Vin helped make those Riddick games, and how he himself is a gamer/DnD player, I imagine he'll want the game to play decently, instead of half arsed, like the first game.
I really want to hope he won't let the devs go lazy or cut corners either, because they definitely did with their Ark style "MMO" game.
The tweet didn’t say it but 99% it’s timed. But that’s ok. Xbox can use a few timed games themselves
Exactly. And Xbox Wire has confirmed that it's a console launch exclusive: https://twitter.com/XboxWire/status/1338589672021245952
