Turok

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a game by Propaganda Games
Platforms: XBox 360, PC (2008), Playstation 3 (2008)
User Rating: 9.0/10 - 6 votes
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See also: First Person Shooter Games, Cult Classic Games
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One Of Gaming's greatest mysteries is why dinosaur combat Off Road Velociraptor Safari aside, has never been mastered. The King Kong game came pretty close, even if throwing the jungle equivalent of toothpicks at a dino would be unlikely to work in the real world, but to this day I still don't know what it feels like to truly fire a rocket launcher at a T-Rex. Turok was the game that could have given us that experience: it failed.

Don't think that this is a truly bad game, it isn't - it's just eminently mediocre, on every count Fighting against grunts isn't bad, fighting against the cold-blooded dinos is oddly toothless, and the game is packed with those needless button tapping quick-time action sequences favoured by consoles. In a perfect world someone, somewhere would have created a game that perfected the thrill and horror of the first Jurassic Park movie. This is not a perfect world. We are doomed.

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XBox 360

System requirements:

  • PC compatible
  • Operating systems: Windows 10/Windows 8/Windows 7/2000/Vista/WinXP
PC

System requirements:

  • PC compatible
  • Operating systems: Windows 10/Windows 8/Windows 7/2000/Vista/WinXP
Playstation 3

System requirements:

  • PC compatible
  • Operating systems: Windows 10/Windows 8/Windows 7/2000/Vista/WinXP

Game Reviews

On Hearing I was to give the verdict on a new Turok game, one that was created by a brand-new development team and that sneaked onto shelves while most people weren't looking, I was ready to rip into it like a T-Rex in a paddock of American tourists. However, despite its obvious console roots, Turok isn't that bad - it's just primeval bog-standard.

In the late '90s, the Turok series pioneered great FPS graphics (well, it was the first game I saw with lens flare) and innovative weapons such as the cerebral bore. Propaganda may have dumped that excellent decapitator, but they've retained the central hero, reinventing him as a gung-ho marine, sent to a terraformed planet to bring down a renegade leader.

Jungle Buddies

Turok is a very linear shooter, but even so, you can often get lost in the samey-looking tropical jungle. Luckily, tapping Fl offers help - a white arrow near your crosshair, indicating where you have to trudge to your next objective. And trudge you will. Unbelievably, there's no run option - a huge disadvantage when you're attempting to flee the attentions of massive meat-eating predators. You can only perform comedic rolls left and right to avoid the snapping jaws.

Combat is a well-worn mix of closeup attacks, hectic firefights and sniping -with the odd gun turret thrown in. Turok's hunting knife is often the best weapon against scores of prehistoric predators, as any close proximity to them allows you to press the left mousebutton to trigger one of a few satisfying "stab dinosaur" animation sequences. These show Turok ruthlessly wrestling and hacking the poor creatures to death - although it's rather hit-and-miss when it works. You can also use the knife to slice the throats of any human foes if you manage to sneak up behind them, but with no stealth indicators and patchy Al, it's easy to alert them to your sneaking presence and you soon have to resort to larger weaponry. Far more effective stealth kills are achieved by using Turok's trusty bow, which can be used to snipe distant enemies.

However, the main weapons - trusty items such as the shotgun, pulse rifle and flamethrower - are your main staple. Each has alternative fire modes, such as the sticky bomb gun's ability to create smart mini-minefields that send ragdoll bodies flying. Although there is a decent selection of firepower, a splattering of blood and the ability to dual-wield, the weapons just don't feel meaty enough -enemies seem to take an endless barrage of bullets before they'll stubbornly give up and lie down, dead.

FPS Prehistory

As you've got me talking about negatives there are also the stupid action events, where you have to tap keys or mouse buttons to escape the jaws of dinosaurs, which help make Turok feel like a kid's game. Then there's the annoying checkpoint saving system, invisible walls and objects you can walk straight through, boring characters and dialogue, and uninspired level design. Also, even though the tribal music is good and the dinosaur animation sometimes brilliant (see Jurassic Larks box), the supposedly-lush jungle graphics occasionally looks amateurish.

Having Turok joined by one or two gruff Al team-mates from Whiskey Company in parts of the game is a brave move by Propaganda, and it's actually enjoyable (and useful) watching your butch chums taking down a few toothy raptors or dumb henchmen, while co-op multiplayer is a welcome addition. There are so many great shooters on PC already, that it's hard to recommend Turok - it's not awful by any means, but it's just not up to the standards set by Crysis, Far Cry or even Peter Jackson's King Kong.

While Turok does create a world you can certainly haye moments of fun inhabiting, with great multiplayer options (if you can find anyone to play with), it's terribly inconsistent and feels like a shooter from the last century. This impression is amplified when you think about the storytelling anflto action advancements made to the (jenre by games such as BioShock and Half-Life 2: Episode Two. So while Turok isn't prehistoric, it's probably the last of the old-school FPS species.

Jurassic Larks

Turok's dinosaurs are the best bit in the game...

The line above continues, "...which is surprising, because non-human enemies are always rubbish." You can usually throw as many mythical beasts, dinosaurs or flying aliens at us, but the best enemies in shooters are always human, or at least humanoid. Yet, the dinosaurs in Turok are great - from scampering nuisances that bite your heels to the lumbering great T-Rex that can pick up and chomp down any human in seconds.

A particular favourite are the dino-lizards called the lurkers, creatures that wrap themselves around trees before sliding down and attacking you at speed. You can also watch the Al enemies fight each other, so packs of raptors will sometimes turn on another dinosaur or a stupid henchmen rather than take you on. So, hooray for k dinosaurs - they may be extinct, but they're officially the least shit thing in Turok...

Start penning those ticked-off letters now, paleontologists: Developer Propaganda Games is growing its thunder lizards larger than life for this set-in-the-future reboot of the tarnished Turok first-person-shooter franchise. "At several points in the game," says Propaganda VP Josh Holmes, "you'll engage a T-Rex creature that has grown beyond what would be realistic based on scientific data." But even if this futuristic shooter's titanic dinosaurs--products of genetic engineering run amok on an alien world--don't do you in, their little brothers will. "We have physics-based grass that allows you to creep up on enemies for stealth kills," says Holmes. "But the grass also has lizards and mini-raptors that'll run away if you encounter them. If enemies see them scatter, they'll know there's a threat and turn their weapons on you."

Fortunately, you can "convince" the dinosaurs to fight on your side. Pricking them with arrows makes them take out their anger on the nearest enemy. Even cooler: Your shotgun has a dino-luring-flare launcher. Tag a bad guy--whether in single-player or the multiplayer modes--and he becomes a 6-foot drumstick to any nearby carnivores.

Cool, but the thought of dino allies also brings to mind reptile-rider Tobias Bruckner, the cyborg cavalry captain boss of 2002's Turok Evolution, a game that put the "terrible" in "terrible lizard." "I guarantee we have no Tobias Bruckner," says Holmes, quick to distance his game from the character who's become the mascot for crappiness in our annual Game of the Year Awards (see next issue). "And no machine guns mounted on the heads of dinos, either."

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