{"id":122066,"date":"2020-12-14T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/?p=147521"},"modified":"2020-12-14T21:00:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:00:20","slug":"ark-ii-is-coming-to-xbox-series-xs-as-a-console-launch-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/14\/ark-ii-is-coming-to-xbox-series-xs-as-a-console-launch-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ark II is Coming to Xbox Series X|S as a Console Launch Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week at The Game Awards, Studio Wildcard took their next dinosaur-sized step with the Ark franchise and thrilled the world by announcing Ark II<\/em><\/strong>. The reveal trailer (above) was fully captured in-engine and showcases some of the features and gameplay fans can expect when it arrives as an Xbox Series X|S console launch exclusive in 2022.<\/p>\n

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The Ark franchise has a long-storied history with the Xbox community. Ark: Survival Evolved<\/em><\/strong> 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<\/em> is also one of the first titles to be optimized for Xbox Series X|S<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now with Ark II<\/em>, 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\u2019s dramatic eons-spanning story of humankind\u2019s evolution, in this next-generation sandbox survival experience.<\/p>\n

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Ark II<\/em> will also feature Vin Diesel as a hero character, Santiago, who will also be a crossover character in the upcoming \u201cArk: The Animated Series.\u201d While Vin Diesel will lend his acting talents to Ark II<\/em>, he is also a massive fan of the franchise, now serving as an executive producer on the game\u2019s sequel and having logged over 1,000 hours in Ark: Survival Evolved<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ll have more news to share in the near future about Ark II <\/em>here on Xbox Wire. We look forward to seeing you in the Ark! <\/p>\n

P.S. Don\u2019t forget to grab your free Santiago weapon skins and the Animated Series Raptor costume in Ark: Survival Evolved<\/em> now, before they\u2019re gone! <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Last week at The Game Awards, Studio Wildcard took their next dinosaur-sized step with the Ark franchise and thrilled the world by announcing Ark II. The reveal trailer (above) was fully captured in-engine and showcases some of the features and gameplay fans can expect when it arrives as an Xbox Series X|S console launch exclusive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122066","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=122066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}