Turok is being re-invented by the new studio Propaganda Games. Thumbs up.
- Bad : Not enough dinosaur variety to fight. Some enemies may be TOO intelligent sometimes, and too stupid some other. Knifing can be touchy.
Turok is an old yet not forgotten franchise that the new studio Propaganda Games decided to revive. The whole universe had a face-lift, wich may turn off some people, but personnaly, I think it's for the best.
Some of you may remember Turok as an old-school FPS that had mutant, meta-dinosaurs and alien guns hosted by a crazy native american tomohawk guy who doesn't relead his guns a-la Doom or Duke Nukem 3D.
Propaganda decided to rename Turok as '' Joseph Turok'' , giving him a less native american name and taking off his crazy clothes to put him in a special-ops suit with a faux-hawk modern haircut. They also took off everything that was cybernatic and too weird, so don't expect to see any crazy and unreal guns or some hideous monsters.
No, there is no celebral bore, and yet, it's for the best.
Gameplay : The game controls itself pretty well, although some of you may need to adjust the sensitivity ( wich I didn't ) due to the fact there is no auto-aim. It also means harder challenge during the campaign, but also making players a lot less able to shoot each other in multiplayer unless they actually got some skills up their belt.
The game leaves the surreal setting to dive the characters into something more believable. Wich means you'll be able to stealth around your enemies hiding in high-grass, and kill them silently with the bow. You also have a knife to your disposal, wich is the highlight of the game. I think the whole knife idea is a genius one, since it allows you to pull some crazy knife struggles against dinosaurs and some nasty one hit kills on human targets.
Sadly, it seems the less skilled player rather prefer to run slashing their arms around hoping to kill everything. On normal setting, it may work, but later in the game or in heavier difficulty setting, you will get your ass whooped. This actually carries on to Multiplayer, wich player also seem to run around like headless chickens hoping for the one hit kill. Averagely skilled player will understand pretty soon that you can easily kill these players by running backwards and shooting at them.
Sound : Almost every ( if not all of them ) character in the game is voiced by talented actors who brings an incredible performance, making the chattering between characters pretty interesting to hear. The music follows the whole survival/jungle theme perfectly.
Graphics : The graphics are great and there's no slowdowns. No, it's not the best looking game on the console, but its on-par with Halo3. There's some pretty effects there and there, but sometimes the textures seems to pop-up a little bit late.
Value : The game's campaing isn't too long, but its reasonable, The game is very fun and well built. I played through it three times up to now, and although its a linear shooter, there is plenty of little alternate routes in the levels that brings you to try either stealth or well placed explosive shots. The multiplayer is very solid, yet not very original. Still, knifing players and mauling dinos online is awesome, and some of you may find it very entertaining when COD4 , Gears, TF2 or Halo3 starts getting boring.