A new game, a new plot, and a new way to enjoy playing Turok.

User Rating: 8 | Turok X360
By shurikenfreak | Review Date:
Okay, first off, the game won't make the true fans that happy overall; the game shares little to no story or setting at all with the original Turok games. This one is set in the future, where Joseph Turok is a space marine on a terraforming planet infested with dinosaurs. He is looking for Kane, basically his ex-mentor who is working on bio-weapons that he probably isn't going to sell to the best of people. On the planet are two enemies, the dinosaur inhabitants, and soldiers on Kane's side. An interesting feature about this is that sometimes you will see enemy troops fighting dinosaurs, where you can either help one of them or just watch one kill the other. Also, it feels very nice to be able to lure dinosaurs toward your enemies using flares. What's even cooler is the fact that you can make dinosaurs fight dinosaurs!

Ok, now if this is not the first review of Turok you have read, then you have probably heard of difficulties with the sensitivity and such, which is a bunch of lies, I didn't have to adjust the sensetivity at all, it was fine the way it was! Also, you probably heard that the gun selection wasn't that amazing, which is true, seeing as that you are given the basic guns that you see in most FPS games. However, what is interesting is that you can use the guns' alternate fire, meaning most guns can damage opponents in multiple ways. What is also cool is that you are given a bow and knife that stay with you for the entire game, not being able to be traded for guns. The knife kills are fun, and the explosive arrows are a nice touch.

The graphics in the game have been complained about before, but I can't see why. Sure, they aren't the greatest you have ever seen, but they aren't horrible either. The game's enviroment is nice, and different from most FPS ones.

The boss fights are okay, but only the last one and the serpent one are tough, though their learning curve doesn't take that long. The game itself is a little short; if there were two or three more levels, then the game would be great.

Multiplayer is not that different from other FPS ones. However, it is cool that you can have nuetral dinosaurs and insects running around killing both teams.

Pros:
1.) Cool setting.
2.) Fun knife kills.
3.) Good selection of weapons with alternate fires.
4.) The game can get you very excited at times.

Cons:
1.) The game is a little on the short side.
2.) Multiplayer could have been made a little better.
3.) Plot isn't unique and strays off of what could have been made better.
4.) Has nothing to do with the original games besides the dinosaurs, knife and bow really, no strange weapons or anything.

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