While not the best FPS game out there, Turok provides plenty of action to get your shooter fix. Dinosaurs are cool!
Turok's graphics certainly could be a bit better. It seems as if they tried to make them really good, but something got left out. There are still some very impressive environments, and the dinosaurs look awsome, which is good since they are an integral part of the game. I didn't have any severe technical issues to contend with, so as far as I'm concerned the game ran fine.
The sound was fairly good, with good ambient effects, and reasonable voice acting to round out the game. What else can you say about sound?
The game play itself could be extremely fun, or just kind of usual depending on what was happening. The weapons in the game were not all that exceptional except for a few. This is the first game that makes the knife cool. Killing something at the right time with the knife gives you a cool insta-kill animation that never seems to get old, it also turns out to be very effective and I found myself using it more often than many of my other weapons. The bow was also fairly interesting to use, quiet and lethal. The other weapons you acquire are fairly average, and not all that interesting, although playing with the flares on the shotgun can be fun since you can send dinosaurs where you want to with them. There was enough plot to keep the action moving and cohesive, and some of the boss fights were pretty good as well. The difficulty can be erratic, sometimes fairly easy, sometimes very hard, never too much of either, but for some people I could see it getting frustrating.
Overall Turok is another one of those FPS games that isn't going to reinvent the genre, but will provide a reasonable fix for those people looking for a game to play during the dry summer months where there is very little else to look forward to.