Dylan Duarte of Ripten gives his impressions of the recent Turok Demo, found on XBox live and PSN.
He writes: "So just how hard is it to screw up a game about stabbing dinosaurs? Not that hard, apparently."
He prefaces it all by stating that Turok has a steep hill to climb. The bar for shooters has been raised tremendously in the past year with games like Halo 3, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, and Call of Duty 4. This is what Turok has to live up to. In his personal opinion, Call of Duty 4 is the best shooter ever made and probably one of the best games ever made. This is what Turok has to live up to.
The environment looks very bland, but he can't imagine a cave looking that spectacular. The texture leaves a lot to be desired and there were things scattered about – such as bones – which just looked downright bad.
Another gripe he had was with the stealth. There's no actual system to it, so you just have to crouch in the bushes and hope you're not spotted. Many times enemies will stand right in front of you and look in your direction, but you'll still go unnoticed.
The enemy A.I. was terrible, with guys just standing out in the open and blasting away. At one point, he lobbed a grenade into a pack of enemies, where they seemed to just stand there and stare at it before being away. They clearly acknowledged its presence, yet they made no attempt to escape.
A year or so ago, Turok would have been a mediocre shooter. In light of recent games, it's just bad. Stabbing enemies is fun for a while, but the animations and actual act itself get tiresome quickly.He also had a lot of fun taking out enemies with my bow, but it's not nearly enough to carry the game.
With only a couple weeks to go until the finished game, he can't imagine much of anything will change.
The Turok series has been languishing without a new title for more than a decade. It's about time we got a reboot.
I'm all for it, I loved the originals... I just don't think, just like w the original Prey, that the main character can survive in this current political climate. Native characters seem untouchable at the moment. I think it can be shown the right respect, but there's always someone getting upset about something these days, they would find a way to cancel it.
I can't think of a game that's been cancelled because of the race of the main character.
Honestly, I would prefer if they just ported/remastered Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion to modern platforms. So we could have access to the "original 3 games". Because I don't see how to really reboot Turok. It's a product of its time being a mixture of platforming/fps and puzzle.
And I really don't see all those elements being preserved on a Reboot.
I would prefer Dino Crisis remake from Capcom. Still, a remade Turok would get my attention.
Forgets about the 2008 reboot*
I'd rather have a sequel to Turok 3, tbh.
We unfortunately do not have enough quality dino games. Theres Horizon but they're robots, and Monster Hunter that I can only think of. I'd like to see Turok make a comeback some day.
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Although the late 2000s Turok wasn't my favorite, I would love a new entry. Open world survival with shotguns and dinosaurs. Not sure how we'd get the fusion cannon, but that would be pretty sweet too.
Lol
All of these games are pretty much universally praised. Outside of Timeshift I literally own all of these.
XIII, The Darkness 2, Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Timesplitters: future perfect, Bulletstorm are awesome games
I played them all, they are all good in their own way
I used to be obsessed with FPS games
ouch
I still want to play it
disagree....this guy went into it looking for bad things...I played it and if i had written this review it would have been completely different. i enjoyed the shooting aspect..using my knife only when in close quarters...the stealth was cheesy as he said, but its ok caus after i was caught it was back to the shooting...
comparing a military based shooter to a dinosaur/cave/ jungle shooter also made me wonder why there were no airstrikes in turok (sarcasm)
this guy is being too harsh..its not CoD4, but i already have that game....this one still has time to add some polish and turn out an above average experience.
I think he was definitely harsh, going into it, i dunno expecting a COD 4 experience of some sorts.
In the gameplay demonstrations and preview builds the demo-er was getting knocked on his ass every 30 seconds by dinos. it looked like it would get annoying quick.
It does get a little annoying and you do get knocked down quite a bit. I don't think it was as straight up bad as the reviewer made it out to be, but it really isn't worth the $60. If it were around $40, I'd consider it but as of now it is nothing more than a weekend rental.