The game was rated PEGI 16 for sustained depictions of death towards human characters. Not appropriate for persons below 16 years of age.
In Primal Carnage: Extinction, dinosaurs have been recreated on a remote island by the fictional corporation Phoenix International, only to escape and roam free. Players can choose to fight as one of the escaped dinosaurs, or become part of the human team that is dispatched to exterminate them.