{"id":105491,"date":"2019-12-13T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/jump_the_shark_when_maneater_stalks_switch_next_may"},"modified":"2019-12-13T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T12:30:00","slug":"jump-the-shark-when-maneater-stalks-switch-next-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/13\/jump-the-shark-when-maneater-stalks-switch-next-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump The Shark When Maneater Stalks Switch Next May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/38a25f2747a38\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/38a25f2747a38\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/38a25f2747a38\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mmVSPb7i0Vk?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Last night at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/watch_the_game_awards_2019_-_live\">The Game Awards<\/a>, Tripwire Interactive announced via a new trailer that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/maneater\">Maneater<\/a><\/strong>, an open-world and savage shark sim, will be swimming to Switch on 22nd May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In a world where millions of sharks are killed each year by humans and (according to the trailer above) only five humans succumb to the big toothy fish, it&#8217;s about time that Jaws and his buddies got revenge, and it seems they&#8217;re doing so in spectacularly bloody fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Self-described as a single-player action-RPG, you&#8217;ll be terrorising the waters of the Gulf Coast chomping on whatever or <em>whomever<\/em> you come across as you evolve constantly into a more efficient killer.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the trailer, it&#8217;s nothing if not savagely violent &#8211; they way Samuel L. Jackson went in classic shark shlockfest <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zg9fKUo83SE\">Deep Blue Sea<\/a><\/strong> seems to be par for the course in Maneater. We remember that film being a fun leave-your-brain-at-the-door movie &#8211; we guess we&#8217;ll find out if Tripwire can sustain that level for an entire game when the game&#8217;s unleashed in May next year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Woah here she comes&#8230; Let us know if you&#8217;re keen for Jaws to get his revenge with a chewy little comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mmVSPb7i0Vk?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Last night at The Game Awards, Tripwire Interactive announced via a new trailer that Maneater, an open-world and savage shark sim, will be swimming to Switch on 22nd May 2020. In a world where millions of sharks are killed each year by humans and (according to the trailer above) only five humans succumb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}