The Review: Turok
Campaign (7.5/10): The Campaign has a good enough story that has few complaints, except the lack of Co-op. The game starts out with you getting out of your ship you've been assigned to, and blah blah blah. That part doesn't matter. Once you get to the planet, this is where things take off. You are equipped with a knife, and soon a simple gun. Right here is when we notice some goods and bads. The goods: your knife is probably the most fun weapon to kill with. When used, it takes you out of first-person view and puts you in third as you watch your character go into a crazy killing move. But, if you choose to use a gun, it works just fine too. A shotgun is given to you eventually in which the second attack is to shoot out a flare that the dinos are attracted to, which seems to come in handy a lot as you go on. Also, you are given cool grass to hide in, or get hunted in. The Bad: Unfortunately, the grass talked about earlier, isn't rendered very well. It looks like a picture that rotates as you move by, much like ammo in Doom. Why is this here? NO ONE uses this technique. Ever. Another thing wrong is that if you are going to make your health like Call of Duty, where you can take so much damage before dying, and you make it easy for you to get hurt, then you must have adequate cover. This is not the case in this game. There isn't enough cover, so you end up having to run long distances trying to avoid being hurt instead of just ducking behind a wall.
Gameplay (8/10): Gameplay is like Halo (Two tradable weapons, your knife, and bow - yes making 4 in all) meets Call of Duty (damage taken, opposed to health bar), and of course Turok. Playing a game with dinosaurs continually roaming around is awesome. Though, I wish there was a giant area where dinosaurs were roaming around, but sadly there was no such place. I also wish there where more dinosaurs. There are a few, but not enough. Still, this game is fun.
Multiplayer (4/10): This mad me angry. First of all: no Co-op, but I can live with that. Then: Awesome multiplayer maps with continually spawning dinosaurs, but only being able to play online or system link!!! Really?! Why isn't there any LAN play in games anymore? I play online a lot, but nothing beats having friends over and playing on one console. Plus the only Co-op is online or through system link, but it's just a short level (one of 3 or 4) made solely for that purpose. To make things worse, every time I've gone online with this game except for twice, my game has ended up with a bad connection, killing most of everyone but two people's connection. Almost all online achievements didn't help any. This could just be bad luck for me, but it made online play very unenjoyable.
Overall: 7.5/10
It's not perfect, or even near it, but it's good enough to have me looking for the next game.