The Carnivores games are a series of hunting simulation video games featuring prehistoric species ranging from dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

s to Quaternary

Quaternary

The Quaternary Period is the most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the ICS. It follows the Neogene Period, spanning 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to the present...

 mammal

Mammal

Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young...

s (depending on the title). The first three games were developed for the PC

IBM PC compatible

IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers' ability to...

 by Action Forms

Action Forms

Action Forms is a Ukrainian game development company, based in Kiev, Ukraine.- History :The company Action Forms was founded in 1995. In 1997, their debut game Chasm: The Rift was released. Subsequently the company has earned recognition as developer of Carnivores series, in which Action Forms has...

 and released by WizardWorks Software

WizardWorks Software

WizardWorks Software was a video game developer and publisher located in Minneapolis, MN. Focused on casual consumer games sold through mass-merchants like Target and Wal-Mart, WizardWorks was best known for publishing the Deer Hunter series of video games developed by Sunstorm Interactive but also...

 between 1998 and 2001. The fourth game, Carnivores Cityscape, was developed by Sunstorm Interactive

Sunstorm Interactive

Sunstorm Interactive is an Indianapolis-based video game developer founded in 1995 by Anthony Campiti, which specialized in hunting simulators and first-person shooters...

 and released by Infogrames

Infogrames

Infogrames Entertainment SA was an international French holding company headquartered in Paris, France. It was the owner of Atari, Inc., headquartered in New York City, U.S. and Atari Europe. It was founded in 1983 by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet using the proceeds from an introductory...

 in 2002. The fifth game, Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter, is a port of Carnivores 2 to the iOS by Tatem Games and the PSP

PlayStation Portable

The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...

 by Beatshapers

Beatshapers

Beatshapers Ltd. is a new generation video game developer and publisher working on global markets for seventh generation handhelds and consoles and Apple Inc...

, released in 2010.

Games

See also

• Deer Hunter, another hunting series published by WizardWorks Software
  WizardWorks Software
  WizardWorks Software was a video game developer and publisher located in Minneapolis, MN. Focused on casual consumer games sold through mass-merchants like Target and Wal-Mart, WizardWorks was best known for publishing the Deer Hunter series of video games developed by Sunstorm Interactive but also...
  
  
• Chasm: The Rift
  Chasm: The Rift
  Chasm: The Rift is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Action Forms and published in 1997 by WizardWorks Software, GT Interactive Software and Megamedia Corp...
  
  , Action Forms' original first person shooter game.

External links

• Official Action Forms Carnivores website
• Official Action Forms Carnivores 2 website
• Official Action Forms Carnivores: Ice Age website
• Carnivores 2 review on DailyRadar (archived at the Internet Archive
  Internet Archive
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• Carnivores 2 review on GameOver
• Interview with Igor Karev (Action Forms' Executive Director) on GamingAuctions.com (archived at the Internet Archive)
• TatemGames Carnivores 2 website