Watch humans fight mobs of mutant dinosaurs in this Second Extinction gameplay footage

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Second Extinction is a 3-player co-op FPS—kinda like Left 4 Dead but instead of fighting zombies you're fighting mobs of dinosaurs. Mutated dinosaurs.

These mutant dinos have taken over the planet, though nobody really knows where they even came from. The remainder of humanity has fled Earth to a space station in orbit, but they're coming back with a bunch of guns to take back the planet, look for survivors, and discover what led to this dino invasion in the first place.

Dinosaurs are naturally dangerous foes, but even more so since their mutations give them special abilities like invisibility and acid attacks. But the humans aren't slouches, either, armed with upgradable weaponry and the ability to call down supply drops and airstrikes. 

Below you can check out about 10 minutes of gameplay footage from Second Extinction, as the developers blow up a few hundred dinos while chatting with IGN.

Christopher Livingston
Senior Editor

Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.

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